News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Timothy Culver, 26, of Eastpointe, Michigan, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for distributing heroin, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, issued the following statement today regarding the Department of Education's unprecedented and unlawful “supplement, not supplant" regulatory proposal...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA- On Aug. 30, 2016, Robert Ellsworth Brooks, Jr., age 70, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to five years’ probation and a $5,000 fine, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Brooks pled guilty under the Stolen Valor Act to purchasing medals without proper authorization. Brooks was also ordered to forfeit the unauthorized medals and pay a $25 special assessment to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ruben David Martinez, III, 29, of Truth or Consequences, N.M., pled guilty yesterday afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to methamphetamine trafficking charges under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: Related Indictment Adds Additional Murder Counts Against Leaders and Members of Violent New Jersey Gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A former Massachusetts attorney pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a scheme to defraud a veteran.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Randy Exavier Greene, 21, formerly of Stratford, Texas, appeared yesterday in federal court before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater and pleaded guilty to a superseding information charging one count of conspiracy to use an interstate commerce facility in the commission of murder-for-hire.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: Highly Profitable Scheme Prostituted Foreign Nationals and South Florida Residents.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The former operator of the Normandie Club in Gardena has been ordered to pay a $1 million criminal fine and to forfeit nearly $1.4 million after pleading guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act by failing to report large cash transactions to federal authorities.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Keith Derwin Freeman, 43, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, pled guilty to heroin distribution in federal court today, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Pamela B. Lewis has been sentenced for stealing over $1.2 million from her employer, an accounting firm, and her employer's client.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: WILMINGTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that today in federal court, Senior United States District Judge James C. Fox, sentenced LEANDER DEWEY JONES, 65, of Raleigh, to 360 months imprisonment followed by a lifetime of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: Florida Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Operating Extensive Prostitution Enterprise.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: Project will Improve Parking and Traffic Circulation for Visitors to Yosemite Valley.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: Rocky Mountain National Park will be displaying 13 art quilts, created to celebrate the centennial of the National Park Service, during September, 2016 at the Fall River Visitor Center. The exhibition will open September 6 and the quilts will remain on exhibition through Sunday, September 25. The quilts...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, and Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of Education announced the proposed rule for Title I spending under the Every Student Succeeds Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Physician Naga Raja Thota, a pain specialist with an office in El Cajon, was arrested this morning and charged with distributing oxycodone and other highly addictive drugs without any legitimate medical purpose in exchange for sex acts. The doctor was taken into custody by San Diego Drug Enforcement Administration agents at his practice.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that an Independence, Mo., man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for illegally possessing firearms after accidentally shooting himself in the leg during an assault against his mother.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: Defendant admitted to having secret drug lab in his home; law enforcement seized over 60 firearms from his residence.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service today announced the awarding of $531,187 in grants from the Historic Preservation Fund to 16 American Indian tribes to support the protection of America's native cultures.
