News from September 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: UFCW Organizer Dan Rush Charged With Using His Position to Personally Profit.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC. - The Department of Justice today announced 206 awards, totaling more than $97 million, to American Indian tribes, Alaska Native villages, tribal consortia and tribal designees. The announcement was made at the 2015 Tribal Leader Briefing, sponsored by the National Congress of American Indians, and included Tribal leaders, Members of Congress and Administration officials.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: MOOSE, WY -Grand Teton National Park and the Grand Teton Association will host a presentation by historian and former Grand Teton National Park Ranger Doug Leen on Friday, Sept. 18, at 5:30 p.m. The presentation will take place in the Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center Auditorium in Moose...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr., announced today that Marvin Deshawn Whetstone, 34, formerly of Grand Rapids, was sentenced to seven years in prison for check-writing and income tax refund schemes. U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell imposed the sentence.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: Protecting children from online sexual predators is one of the highest priorities within the mission of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). To combat those efforts, Operation Predator was created in 2003 as the agency's flagship initiative to combat the sexual exploitation of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Three local men have been charged in separate, but similar cases following a joint investigation conducted by the FBI, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Corpus Christi Police Department - Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (CCPD-ICAC), announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal judge today sentenced a former Hoover senior living center employee to four years and nine months in prison for using the identity of a resident with dementia to steal more than $300,000 from the resident's bank and credit accounts, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Craig Caldwell.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: "As this case shows, those who choose to turn public housing into a site for illegal drug dealing will pay a very heavy price upon conviction," said U.S. Attorney Hochul. “We applaud the residents of this project for taking a stand against such criminals.".
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Western District of New York. Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Mary Catherine Baumgarten, who handled the case, stated that between April 2014 and June 19, 2014, Jachimiak conspired to manufacture and use methamphetamine with others, including codefendant John Ruth, at 97 Field Street in Lancaster where he resided.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: Dayton Aviation Heritage NHP Welcomes Centennial Volunteer Ambassador.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: ROCKFORD - A former Bull Valley, Ill. man pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to the concealment of assets from a Bankruptcy Trustee. JOSEPH MICHAEL PHELAN, 51, now of Augusta, Ga, the former President of Phezer Enterprises, Incorporated, located in Crystal Lake, Ill....
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: Loretta E. Lynch, the Attorney General of the United States, Anthony Foxx, the United States Secretary of Transportation, Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Mark R. Rosekind, Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (“NHTSA"), Calvin...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: This year, 13 groups received funding to remove large debris including derelict vessels, abandoned fishing gear, and other harmful marine debris from shorelines and coastal waters. Grant recipients will couple their removal efforts by working with local volunteers on prevention initiatives. The projects typically last for 24 months and create long-term ecological improvements for coastal habitats and wildlife. A list of the grants awarded can be found here.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Michael C. Sibley, who placed a backpack containing two pipe bombs at Vickery Creek Park in the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, has pleaded guilty to a charge of conveying false and misleading information about a crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jeffrey Kingman, 51, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, pled guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to failing to pay child support. Federal law makes it a crime to maintain a residence in state different than the residence of your children if you owe more than $10,000 in child support.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today that Victor Hugo Quesada-Pacheco, also known as "Galvan," age 34, a citizen of Mexico who most recently resided illegally in Kalamazoo, Michigan, was sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment today for his role in a counterfeit identification...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: BURLINGTON, Vt. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Eric Miller United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that David Baez Garcia, age 49, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, has pleaded guilty in front of Chief Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Douglas E. Gregory, who is handling the case, stated that according to the complaint, Robinson entered the residence at 184 Clay Street on September 9, 2015 and stole a gun safe. The safe contained five firearms and numerous rounds of ammunition.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today pressed officials from multiple federal land management agencies on rising user fees that threaten to make our nation’s public lands, including Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier, “uninviting" for visitors.
