News from September 2015
By DOT News Wire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced approval of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) corrective action plan to improve the safety of its Metrorail and Metrobus systems as required by an FTA Safety Directive. FTA now calls on WMATA to provide unwavering focus and attention to effectively implement the plan and better provide the level of safety its passengers and workers deserve.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced today, that Kham Meng Vang (age: 33) of Appleton, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison by Chief United States District Judge William C. Griesbach. Vang had previously entered a guilty plea to...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: Federal and State Officials to Hold Press Conference Regarding Major Law Enforcement Operation in Chaves County, New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of wire fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. announced that MARINA ARNEDO ROJAS-ZAYED, age 34, a resident of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, pled guilty in federal court today to one count of making false statements to an agency of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced today that formal assessments of Seattle Police Department (SPD) reforms relating to documenting, investigating and analyzing uses of force by officers have found SPD to be in initial compliance with specific provisions of the court-ordered agreement with...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Four residents of Sutter County, California were sentenced to prison today for their roles in a $14 million unemployment and disability benefits fraud scheme based out of Yuba City and Live Oak, California, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: Justice Department and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Reach Settlement with Hudson City Savings Bank to Resolve Allegations of Mortgage Lending Discrimination.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Chicopee man was charged today in U.S. District Court in Springfield with receiving and possessing child pornography.
By State Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the progress of peace talks in Colombia...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -- The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Draft Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the proposed renewal of the San Luis Unit, Central Valley Project, interim renewal contracts for the Westlands Water District, Santa Clara Valley Water District and Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Jacob Thomas Pearce, 23, of Golden, Colorado, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger, to serve 120 months in prison for transporting a minor for the purpose of engaging in sexual activity, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge Reidinger also ordered Pearce to serve a lifetime of supervised release and to register as a sex offender.
By State Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the Nepali people’s adoption of their new Constitution...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that John Northrup, 37, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of wire fraud, was sentenced to 18 months in prison by U.S. Senior District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: Task Force Will Expand Efforts to Target and Effectively Prosecute Trafficking, Especially Sex Trafficking of Minors.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: Settlement Provides Over $27 Million to Ensure Equal Lending Services to Predominantly Black and Hispanic Communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that KENNY RAY SMITH, age 52, of Whitesboro, Oklahoma, pled guilty to POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE METHAMPHETAMINE, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: SEATTLE - -This Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time, come to one of the almost 5,000 collection sites around the nation to return all unwanted, unneeded, or expired prescription drugs for safe and anonymous disposal. This is the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) 10th National Prescription...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAMES E. NEILSEN, 55, of Norwalk, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of wire fraud stemming from his operation of a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors of more than $1.6 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Sharod Hodge, 37, of Wheeling, was sentenced today to 21 months in prison for cocaine trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
