News from September 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: I want to take a few minutes today to discuss the enormous importance of America’s most critical safety net program -- Social Security. In particular, I want to talk about the Social Security Disability Insurance program and introduce a proposal to secure the financing of Social Security. Of all the...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: In what might be the first face-off of its kind, trained forensics examiners from the FBI and law enforcement agencies worldwide were far more accurate in identifying faces in photographs than nonexperts and even computers.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Kremer's Guns LLC, Celina, Ohio
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man who participated in a heroin conspiracy that funneled multiple kilograms of heroin into the Huntington area in 2012 and 2013 was sentenced today to 57 months in federal prison, announced U. S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Darius Jerome Perry, 32, previously pleaded guilty in federal court in Huntington in February of 2015 to possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Deputy Director Daniel Ragsdale urged a collaborative global response against criminal elements committing intellectual property (IP) theft during a keynote address delivered last week at the 2015 International Law Enforcement IP Crime Conference.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - An Olathe gun dealer was sentenced Monday to 18 months in federal prison for paying bribes to employees of the company that makes Glock firearms, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Urbana, Ill. - On Friday, Kameron L. Farrington, 26, became the third Decatur, Ill., man in two weeks to be sentenced to more than 10 years in federal prison for trafficking crack cocaine as a repeat drug offender. On Sept. 25, U.S. District Judge Colin S. Bruce sentenced Farrington, of the 4700 block...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Proposed penalties: $49,700. Quote: "K&N's deliberate choice not to provide its workers with fall protection when it was readily available is inexcusable," said Prentice Cline,OSHA's area director in Charleston. "Employers in the construction industry are well aware that falls are the leading cause of...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for drug trafficking and illegally possessing a firearm. At the time of his arrest, law enforcement officers discovered illegal drugs and several firearms at this residence, including a firearm hidden under a pillow on a bed where an infant lay.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. announced today the sentencing of Sandra M. White, 53, of Coloma, Michigan, for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. White, who was convicted in June after an eight-day jury trial that was held in U.S. District Court in Kalamazoo, was...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The 10th DEA National Prescription Drug Take-Back event garnered an overwhelming community response as citizens came out in vast numbers to dispose of unused prescription medications. Area residents turned in more than 31,168 (14.1 tons) of medication as part of the National Drug Take-Back...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: The House of Representatives today approved H.R. 3594, the Higher Education Extension Act of 2015. Introduced by Reps. Mike Bishop (R-MI) and Mark Pocan (D-WI), members of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, this legislation extends for one year the Perkins Loan Program that is set to expire ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today announced an $18 million settlement to resolve allegations that Fifth Third Bank (Fifth Third) engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination against African-American and Hispanic borrowers in its indirect auto lending business.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in (SAC) of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton and Joseph A. D’Amico, Superintendent of the New York State Police, announced the seizure of 46 kilograms of (141 lbs.).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Man's Repeated Shouts Disrupted Proceedings. WASHINGTON - Rives M. Grogan, 50, of Mansfield, Texas, has pled guilty to a federal charge stemming from a disturbance that he caused on April 28, 2015, at the United States Supreme Court, Acting U.S. Attorney Vincent H. Cohen, Jr. announced today. Grogan...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Denise M. Bailey, the former administrator of an assisted living facility, has been sentenced to federal prison for misappropriating over $300,000 in veterans benefits that belonged to one of the facility’s residents.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Program Seeks to Reduce Violence through Training, Technical Assistance and Enhanced Collaboration between Sheriff’s Department and Federal Agencies.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Joshua Petrie, 36, of Proctorville, Ohio, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Huntington to federal health care fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Petrie admitted that he worked as a sales representative and fitter for several out of state companies that sold and distributed...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Justin Whittington, 24, of Bakersfield, was arrested today charged with interfering with a person’s housing rights because of his race, color, or national origin by use of force or threat of force, use of a firearm during a crime of violence, unlawful possession of a prohibited...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and House Ways & Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin, D-Mich., today introduced a bill to ensure Americans receiving Social Security disability benefits will not have their benefits unnecessarily cut at the end of next year.
