News from September 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Springfield, Mo., woman has pleaded guilty in federal court to her role in a fraudulent tax return preparation scheme that claimed nearly $340,000 in fraudulent income tax refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: The U.S. Department of Justice today awarded nearly $500,000 in federal grant money for an innovative program to reduce gun violence in Seattle, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. The grant, under the Project Safe Neighborhood (PSN) program supports the Puget Sound Regional Crime Gun Task Force, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: Former Navy Noncommissioned Officer Pleads Guilty to Accepting Bribes While Serving in Afghanistan.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Fitzgerald Stoney, Jr., age 42, of Glenarden, Maryland today to 12 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute one kilogram or more of phencyclidine (PCP) and two counts of possession with intent to distribute PCP.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron J. Mango, who handled the case, stated that during this investigation, the Government determined that Newman engaged in a pattern of sexual abuse of a minor. In addition, on Sept. 26, 2012, a search warrant was executed at the defendant's residence. Items seized from...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: STONEWALL, TEXAS -Put on your dancing boots and head over to the LBJ Ranch on Saturday, Oct. 24, for the annual"Barbecue on the Pedernales." Co-hosted by the National Park Service and Friends of Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park, this event continues a Johnson family tradition of Texas hospitality...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: Medical Biller Sentenced to 45 Months in Prison for Role in $4 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), a senior member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), EPW Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), and six senior EPW members sent a letter to Gina McCarthy, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), regarding recent reports of planned mass hires in light of the Agency's vulnerable hiring practices.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - An Amarillo man, Deswan Newsome, 19, who pleaded guilty in July 2015 to an indictment charging one count of attempted sex trafficking of a child was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson to 135 months in federal prison. U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas made the announcement today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ADRIAN RIVERA-MENDOZA, age 35, a citizen of Mexico, was charged today in a one-count Indictment with illegal reentry into the United States after having been previously deported.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s notice alleging that Volkswagen knowingly violated the Clean Air Act by using software in its cars that circumvents emissions standards testing for certain air pollutants...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: Innovative Approach Combines Gun Tracing and Prosecutions with Prevention Efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: COLUMBUS, OHIO - Andrew J. Parish, 40, of Chillicothe, Ohio was sentenced to 18 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $341,336.46 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for failing to account for and pay over employment taxes to the IRS. Parish previously pleaded guilty to the aforementioned charge on May 5, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Sept. 18, 2015, Anthony Johnson, 25, was sentenced on a one- count indictment charging him with Possession of Contraband by a Federal Inmate. Johnson was an inmate at the Federal Correctional...
By State Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Rep. Eliot Engel, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement on the coup in Burkina Faso...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - The founding member of a Geneva investment firm used client funds to trade his own stocks and to purchase a yacht and luxury vehicle for himself, according to a federal indictment announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, woman convicted of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury was sentenced on Sept. 14, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Douglas S. Rae, 58, of Bethlehem, PA, was charged today by indictment with participating in several schemes to defraud his former employer, a company based in West Chester, PA, of millions of dollars. Rae is charged with seven counts of mail fraud, 25 counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and three counts of money laundering, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: SAVANNAH - Effective immediately, Fort Pulaski National Monument has closed a number of trails that access the north channel of the Savannah River as an erosion control project, managed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District, gets under way.
