News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - The former assistant transportation commissioner for the city of Chicago was sentenced today to ten years in federal prison for his role in a corruption scheme involving the city’s red-light camera contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: Arizona Real Estate Developer Sentenced to 24 Months in Prison for Falsifying Bankruptcy Record.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: Last week, Ranking Members Bobby Scott (VA-03) and John Conyers, Jr. (MI-13) of the Committees on Education and the Workforce and Judiciary, respectively, sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting data on the disparities in school discipline practices and student absenteeism. Recent studies show a large increase in the use of disciplinary actions and chronic absenteeism in public schools.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Dennis Crawford, 47, of Newport, pled not guilty last Friday in U.S. District Court in Burlington to a charge of wire fraud. U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy released Crawford on conditions pending trial, which has not been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - Another member of a methamphetamine conspiracy that trafficked large quantities of the drug from Atlanta to Southwest, Virginia, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Lieutenant with the Quincy Police Department was charged in an indictment unsealed today in connection with collecting double pay while working for the Quincy Police Department in 2015.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: Chairman Jeff Denham (R-CA). Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Material. Field Hearing on “Continued Oversight of the California High-Speed Rail Project.". Aug. 29, 2016. Opening Statement. (Remarks as Prepared). First let me thank our hosts here at the Federal Building in San Francisco...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: Huntington crack dealer faces at least five and up to 40 years; two heroin dealers each face up to 20 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: On Aug. 24, 2016, Gary M. Skinner, 61, of St. Louis, was sentenced for his involvement in a methamphetamine offense, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: Albuquerque Man Arrested for Alleged Involvement in Bank Robberies.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: The clear waters of Otter Creek in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) provide a home for native brook trout, but they are not present in high numbers. Research suggests that habitat restoration may be the key to increasing their abundance and distribution in Otter Creek.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Lieutenant with the Quincy Police Department was charged in an indictment unsealed today in connection with collecting double pay while working for the Quincy Police Department in 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The last of six defendants who conspired to use stolen identities to file fraudulent tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service that sought more than $1.5 million in false tax refunds was sentenced today to 51 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: A Miami Gardens, Florida, resident pleaded guilty today to multiple criminal charges in connection with a sophisticated global cell phone fraud scheme that involved compromising cellphone customers’ accounts and “cloning" their phones to make fraudulent international calls.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - The former president of the International Longshoreman’s Association (ILA) Local 1544 has been convicted of failing to maintain labor union records, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Roberto Gracia Jr., 63, of Brownsville, entered a guilty plea today.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today appointed three members and three alternates to serve on the National Peanut Board. The appointees will serve three-year terms beginning Jan. 1, 2017, and ending on Dec. 31, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL BROWN, a/k/a “Mighty," pled guilty late last Friday to engaging in a racketeering conspiracy that involved his participation in two attempted murders in connection with his membership in a racketeering...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper seeking answers to basic questions about the process used to determine that emails to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were classified when they were sent.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: Awards were made to Florida A&M University, Howard University, City College of New York and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. These institutions partnered with 24 other schools to establish four cooperative science centers. The centers will train students in earth system sciences and remote sensing technology, coastal and marine ecosystems, living marine resources and atmospheric sciences and meteorology - all core science fields for NOAA.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Sedalia, Mo., sex offender pleaded guilty in federal court today for possessing child pornography.
