News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Two Dallas residents have been sentenced for their roles in an ID theft and mail and wire fraud scheme they ran in 2011 and 2012, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: Fugitive Wanted in Prison Gang Investigation Dies in Albuquerque Crash.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former St. Clair County, Mo., sheriff’s deputy and a former county jail inmate each have pleaded guilty to their roles in a wire fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: An Akron man was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for sending pornography to what he believed to be a 12-year-old girl and attempting to coerce her into illicit sexual activity, said Acting U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland Office.
By US DOT Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Representative Peter DeFazio (D-OR) blasted House Republican leadership for attempting to pass legislation that exempts commercial pesticide application from Clean Water Act regulation under the guise of protecting public health from the threat of the Zika virus. The legislation, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WALTER CRAIG BRADWAY, 65, formerly of Glastonbury and currently residing in Holmes Beach, Fla., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 13 months of imprisonment, followed by three...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Jordan Monroe, 50, of Warwick, R.I., was ordered detained in federal custody on Friday following an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Providence on child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Trenton man who was found in possession of 143 grams of heroin and a loaded firearm was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for narcotics possession, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today released the following statement after the AFL-CIO and four Colombian unions filed a petition alleging that Colombia is not satisfying its labor obligations under the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Materials Sciences Corporation, a government contractor headquartered in Horsham, Pennsylvania, has agreed to pay the United States $219,909 to resolve allegations that the company unreasonably billed federal agencies to cover depreciation and other expenses associated with a 58-foot-long Hatteras Yacht Fisherman. The settlement was announced by United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By Interior Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: Contact: Aly Baltrus. Springdale, UT- Zion National Park is hosting a series of public listening sessions as part of a Visitor Use Management (VUM) planning process. Park managers are looking for ways to improve visitor experiences at Zion while protecting the park's fundamental resources and values.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Calelah John Lattisaw, age 58, of New Carrollton, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud arising from a scheme to steal $110,107 in social security benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: FBI Releases 2015 Preliminary Statistics for Law Enforcement Officers Killed in the Line of Duty.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to child sex trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: Law enforcement training available. SHREVEPORT/LAFAYETTE/ALEXANDRIA/LAKE CHARLES/MONROE, La.: Members of the public join with law enforcement across the country for National Police Week - May 15th through May 21st - to honor law enforcement officers who made the ultimate sacrifice, as well as the family...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Two individuals were sentenced in federal court in Martinsburg today for their roles in an unlawful cigarette smuggling scheme, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont and the office of the Vermont Attorney General announced the resolution of their investigations of accountant Raymond Kushi and accounting firm Kushi and Myers, PC for submitting or causing to be submitted false claims for payment to...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: Michael Kerns Pleads Guilty to Being Part of Methamphetamine Conspiracy.
By State Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) hosted a bipartisan meeting with His Excellency Gerard Araud, French Ambassador to the United States, and His Excellency David O’Sullivan, European Union Ambassador to the United States, to discuss combatting radical Islamist extremism.
By State Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) applauded House passage of H. Con. Res. 88, which reaffirms the Taiwan Relations Act and the Six Assurances as the cornerstone of United States-Taiwan relations.
