News from July 2016
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: Dear Inspector General Horowitz: The Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs is examining the Justice Department’s decision to add-and, later, to remove-Omar Mateen from the Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB, and most often referred to as the “terrorist watchlist"). The Committee’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a man from Mexico pleaded guilty Monday to submitting false information when applying for a passport.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that SHEILA HOPKINS, age 63, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to one count of conspiracy to receive illegal kickbacks.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: CLEVELAND, Ohio - A federal workplace safety and health inspection found an Ohio stone fabricator again exposed to workers the risks of hearing loss and respiratory damage, the same dangers found at the facility in 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JONATHAN RAMOS-VASQUEZ, age 27, a native of Honduras, pled guilty today to possession of a handgun by a person illegally present in the United States, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(5)(A).
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: Play Everywhere Challenge, a $1 million national competition that will awardoutside-the-box ideas to make play easy, available, and fun for kids and families in cities across the United States. The Challenge is hosted by KaBOOM!-a national non-profit dedicated to bringing balanced and active play into the daily lives of all children, particularly those growing up in poverty in America.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: New River Gorge 100 Mile Challenge Adventure Hike,5:30 -8:30 pm. Location: Grandview. Celebrate 100 years of the National Park Service on this 4 mile challenge hike to help reach your 2016 goal to hike 100 miles in the local national parks in 2016. Meet at Grandview Visitor Center to hike the Grandview Rim Trail.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - David H. DeMathews, 63, of Columbus, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 142 months in prison and ordered to pay approximately $730,000 in restitution for one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTON FRY, M.D. and CPC ASSOCIATES, INC. have entered into a civil settlement agreement with the federal government in which they will pay $36,704 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a man and woman from Shreveport were found guilty after a trial of having a minor female from Texas engage in prostitution in Shreveport.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Nebraska man convicted of Second Degree Murder was sentenced on May 9, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: Demerous E. Foxworth, 25, of Centreville, Illinois, was sentenced on Friday, July 22, 2016, in the U.S. District Court to 135 months in prison for Commercial Sex Trafficking of a Minor and Use of a Facility of Interstate Commerce to Promote an Unlawful Activity, United States Attorney Donald S. Boyce...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Gettysburg man has pled guilty before United States District Court Judge John E. Jones, III in Harrisburg to a charge that he produced child pornography of children under 12 who were in his custody.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: 2015 Dorm Fire investigation completed. An investigation into a fatal structure fire. that occurred last year in Grand Teton National Park has been completed. An ISB Special Agent worked with US Park Rangers, the State of Wyoming Department of Fire Prevention and Electrical Safety, Jackson Hole Fire/EMS...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Marcos Barela, 28, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 70 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for violating the federal firearms laws.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, led a bipartisan group of 13 Senators in sending a second letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), requesting additional information regarding expressed concerns with the Agency’s proposed rule on revised organic livestock and poultry production standards.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a New York man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Scranton by United States District Judge James M. Munley, to serve 157 months (13 years) in prison on the charges of conspiracy, armed bank robbery, and use of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: A Bedford man was indicted on drug and firearms charges, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK - Brad Rushford, age 33, of Ellenburg Depot, New York, pled guilty today to being a member of a drug distribution conspiracy that involved more than 100 kilograms of marijuana, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Woburn investment advisor was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with defrauding investors of over $1.3 million.
