News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Co-Defendant Previously Sentenced to 13-Year Prison Sentence For Conviction on Armed Bank Robbery Charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Defendants Will Be Resentenced at a Later Date.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Truckee Fire started on July 3, at approximately 6:30 a.m., and is located 10 miles north of Fernley, NV, in Washoe County. The fire is currently 70,546 acres and 35 percent contained burning in grass and brush. Total personnel on the fire is 172. Fire staff will continue building line north and east of the fire. Air operations will be used to support ground activities.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke this morning pressing him to explain how “energy dominance" - the administration’s name for its vision of heavy corporate favoritism on energy and environmental issues - can be turned into realistic...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), Angel M. Melendez, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to news that the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) Director, Walter Shaub, will resign...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Georgia man pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges he was part of an e-mail spoofing scheme that cost Sedgwick County more than $566,000, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Aaron Travis Daniels, 20, aka Harun Muhammad, aka Abu Yusef of Columbus pled guilty in U.S. District Court to attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2339B. Daniels faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Elder Alexander Ajin-Surek, age 25, and a citizen of Guatemala, was sentenced today to time served (66 days in jail) for illegally re-entering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A former accounting manager at a Hampton Roads realty company was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for embezzling over $255,000 from her employer.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Kemmerer, Wyoming - Monument staff, volunteers and community partners will host an open house from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm on Friday, July 21, 2017 at the Fossil Butte National Monument visitor center. This event celebrates the grand opening of a new diorama exhibit showcasing historic and modern fossil quarrying techniques.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that RAYMOND J. MARTIN, 50, of Easton, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. Magistrate Judge Holly B. Fitzsimmons in Bridgeport to three years of probation and ordered to pay a fine of $10,000 for his role in a steroid distribution ring.
By State Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the Committee will convene a hearing on Wednesday, July 12 to explore the opportunities and benefits of increasing women’s economic participation and empowerment in developing countries. The hearing, entitled “Beyond Microfinance: Empowering Women in the Developing World, " is part of a series of hearings to examine the challenges facing women and girls around the globe.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Vern Buchanan (R-FL) announced today that the Subcommittees will hold a joint hearing, entitled “Complexities and Challenges of Social Security Coverage and Payroll Tax...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Rockland County, New York, men were sentenced to prison today for their roles in the December 2015 robbery of a North Jersey bar and the violent carjacking and kidnapping that took place shortly afterwards, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: California Payment Processing Company President and Part-Owner Sentenced to Prison for Fraud Scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: CRAIG, Colo. - Firefighters with the Northwest Colorado Fire and Aviation Management Unit are continuing their efforts to contain the Peekaboo Fire, which has grown to 8,000 acres on Bureau of Land Management land about 50 miles west of Craig. The fire is currently 5 percent contained.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: John Hammond, of Norristown, PA, was charged today by Indictment with receipt and possession of child pornography, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced that Michael W. Kruse, 69, of Columbus, Nebraska, was sentenced today in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 4 years in prison by United States Senior District Judge Richard G. Kopf, for possession of child pornography. In addition to his prison term, Kruse will be required to serve 5 years of supervised release and register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Compassionate Care Hospice Group, Inc., (“CCH Group") has agreed to pay $2.4 million to resolve allegations that CCH Group and its subsidiary Compassionate Care Hospice of Atlanta, LLC, (“CCH Atlanta") submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare and Medicaid by engaging in...
