News from September 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that CHARLES ADONAY LAINES, age 23, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien who was previously convicted of an aggravated felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Edgar Valdez-Villarreal, a.k.a. “La Barbie," and Carlos Montemayor Gonzalez, who are charged in the Northern District of Georgia with importing drugs and money laundering, are among 13 defendants extradited from Mexico this afternoon to face pending charges in the United States. Valdez and Montemayor are alleged to be high-level members of Mexico’s Beltran-Leyva Cartel and were arrested in Mexico on the Atlanta, Georgia, charges in 2010.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Lazaro Alon, 40, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to conspiracy to make a false statement during the acquisition of a firearm announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: PATERSON, N.J. - One of the region's largest commercial laundry companies continues to expose its employees to the same workplace hazards that contributed to the 2011 death of a 24-year-old worker at a Prestige Industries LLC facility in Bay Shore, New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: Former Chief Financial Officer of Siemens Argentina Pleads Guilty to Role in Multimillion Dollar Foreign Bribery Scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: MERIDIAN, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released a Finding of No Significant Impact for the Proposed Meridian Farms Water Company Phase 2 Fish Screen Project. The Proposed Project would replace and consolidate the two existing unscreened diversion structures on the Sacramento River (Drexler and Meridian diversions) with a new 135-cubic-feet-per-second screened intake and pumping facility in the vicinity of the town of Meridian, Sutter County.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - A Winston-Salem man was sentenced to 180 months of imprisonment for possession of a firearm by a felon, announced United States Attorney Ripley Rand.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Three individuals were convicted in federal court this week for their role in a drug trafficking operation involving heroin, cocaine, and oxycodone, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: Memphis, TN - Two men have pled guilty to conspiring to execute a scheme that defrauded the Memphis VA Medical Center of $1 million. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the pleas today.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) asked Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) in a letter today to hold a hearing on the role of hedge funds in Puerto Rico’s ongoing financial crisis. The request comes less than a month after Grijalva and his staff published a Sept. 4 report, “Profit at Any Cost," highlighting some hedge funds’ role in damaging the territory’s economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced that Mushed Salam, 47, of Lowell, Massachusetts, was sentenced on September 28th to one year probation in U.S. District Court after...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review a Draft Environmental Assessment on a project to control noxious weeds and restore native and desirable vegetation on 451 acres of the Middle Carson River floodplain near Dayton.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: Justice Department Files Suit Against City of Des Plaines, Illinois, for Refusing to Allow Islamic Center to Operate.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: Former Las Vegas Resident Convicted of Perjury, Making False Statements and Obstruction in Investigation of Homeowners’ Association Takeover Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a racing official at Penn National Race track in Grantville has agreed to plead guilty to wire fraud for accepting money and other gratuities in exchange for providing inside information to trainers on which races to enter their horses in order to have a better chance at winning.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: BOISE -Rakeen Anderson, 32, of Atlanta, Georgia and Jean Estinville, 27, of Lawrenceville, Georgia, were sentenced today in United States District Court for their roles in a credit card scheme that targeted local retailers in October 2014, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court, Senior United States District Judge W. Earl Britt sentenced ADREAN LAMONT JONES, 29, of Wilmington, to 90 months imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release. On June 1, 2015 JONES pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute a quantity of Phencyclidine (PCP) and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime on June 3, 2014.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: The Energy Department announced today a Request for Information (RFI) to help shape the design of a newly proposed initiative - a Remote Alaskan Communities Energy Efficiency Competition. Aligning with President Obama's commitment to combat climate change and assist remote Alaskan Communities, the goal...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: Kanawha County, West Virginia, Property Manager and Owner to Pay $120,000 to Settle Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Filed by Justice Department.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to a DHS Inspector General report, which found that Secret Service employees obtained and leaked information about Chairman Chaffetz...
