Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 11, 2014. An East Side Bloods (ESB) gang member from Scottsdale, Arizona, was sentenced late yesterday to serve 30 years in prison for his role in the violent street gang, which operated on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community reservation. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 11, 2014. A former LaPorte County deputy auditor has been indicted by a federal grand jury in the Northern District of Indiana for embezzling over $150,000 from the LaPorte County government and committing tax fraud. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 11, 2014. A 26-year-old man from Newport News, Virginia, was sentenced today to serve 255 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for engaging in numerous gang-related crimes as a member of the Black P-Stones, including the shooting of a rival gang member, marijuana dealing[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 10, 2014. Shannon Conley, age 19, of Arvada, Colorado, pleaded guilty this morning before U.S. District Court Judge Raymond P. Moore to one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, U.S. Attorney John Walsh for the District of Colorado and Special Agent[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 9, 2014. A former senior vice president and chief credit officer of TierOne Bank, a publicly traded commercial bank formerly headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, pleaded guilty today for his role in a scheme to defraud TierOne’s shareholders and regulators. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 9, 2014. J. Keith McCray, previously a criminal investigator with the Macon County, Alabama, Sheriff’s Office, was sentenced today by Judge Myron H. Thompson to serve 36 months in prison and two years of supervised release for assaulting a handcuffed man at the county jail, announced the Justice[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 9, 2014. John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security and Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, announced today that U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke re-sentenced Jose Padilla to serve 21 years in prison for his 2007 conviction for conspiracy to[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 8, 2014. The Department of Justice announced today that it has entered into a settlement agreement with the School District of Philadelphia that resolves a religious accommodations lawsuit filed in March 2014.  In its lawsuit, the United States alleged that the school district violated Title VII of the[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 8, 2014. John Francis Mills, 64, the owner of more than a dozen properties in Malone, New York, and Terrance Allen, 57, the maintenance manager of Mills’ properties, were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Thomas J. McAvoy to serve 21 months each in prison for conspiring to[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 8, 2014. The Justice Department today filed a lawsuit against the Kent State University, the Kent State University Board of Trustees and university officials for violating the Fair Housing Act by discriminating against students with disabilities in student housing. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for[Read More…]