News from August 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: Coeur d’Alene - Joseph G. Walker, 21, of Orofino, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court to nine months incarceration, three years supervised release and $100 special assessment, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Larry Alan Burns also ordered Walker to pay $9,904.25 in restitution. Walker pleaded guilty to the charge on Jan. 21, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Michael V. Pierce, 40, Spring Valley, Wis., was sentenced to a cumulative 54 months in federal prison following two federal court hearings yesterday. First, Pierce appeared before U.S. District Judge Lynn S. Adelman, who sentenced Pierce to 42 months for possessing a firearm in January 2014 while a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Christopher Michael Nelson (43, Spring Hill) yesterday pleaded guilty to six counts of bank robbery. Nelson faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison on each count. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Belleville, New Jersey, pharmacist and 15 others were charged today for their roles in a scheme to fraudulently obtain and distribute oxycodone.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada - In an effort to promote safety at Lake Mead and Lake Mohave, the Colorado River Kiwanis Club in Bullhead City, Arizona, donated 168 life jackets to the National Park Service earlier this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - U. S. District Judge Marco A. Hernandez sentenced Portland-area man, Steven Lee Gill, to 188 months in federal prison on Aug. 13, 2014. In January 2014, Gill pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. His sentence was increased because he was found to be a “career offender," under federal sentencing law, based on his lengthy criminal history that included convictions for crimes of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of criminal contempt of court, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: Tucson, AZ - Monsoon season storms caused flash flooding in the Saguaro National Park's Tucson Mountain (West) District yesterday afternoon. The flooding damaged and washed out many segments of the Scenic Bajada Loop Drive and resulted in closures of all the dirt roads in the Tucson Mountain (West) District...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Matthew B. Puterbaugh, 47, of Dover, Pennsylvania was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg charging him with production of receiving, and possession of, child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: Nashville, Tenn. - Aug. 13, 2014 - Kayla Luna, 47, of Waynesboro, Tennessee, was charged by a criminal information filed yesterday, with federal program fraud, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Earl Thomas Romo, 27, of Las Vegas, N.M., made his initial appearance in federal court this morning on an indictment charging him with being a felon in possession. The federal prosecution against Romo was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, 4th Judicial District Attorney Richard Flores, and 8th Judicial District Attorney Donald Gallegos announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: The remaining two defendants of 36 accused in the Southern District of Texas of racketeering activities as part of their roles with the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) have pleaded guilty, capping a six-year sweeping effort that has led to 73 convictions across five federal districts and the decimation ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: 22 defendants have been charged to date; financial institutions report millions of dollars in losses.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Six leading members of Congress today sent a letter to President Obama, urging action to deny federal contracts to inverted corporations. Increasingly, American corporations have exploited a loophole in current law by merging with a smaller foreign company and assuming that company’s address for tax purposes. That enables them to dodge billions in taxes while continuing to bid for, and win, taxpayer-funded federal contracts.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding the U.S. Treasury Department's Interim Final Rule under the Resources and Ecosystem Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities, and Revived Economies of the Gulf Coast States (RESTORE) Act, which establishes grant programs for the Gulf States, including Louisiana, to receive funds for environmental restoration and economic development projects.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: UPCOMING EVENTS AT LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA AUG 13 - NOV 11.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Ray Looney, 39, a non-Indian man who resides in the Pueblo of Laguna, N.M., was sentenced this morning to 15 years in federal prison for his child sexual abuse conviction. Looney will be on supervised release for 20 years after completing his prison sentence. He also will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Stotts City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to attempting to manufacture child pornography by secretly videotaping a child victim in the shower. Christopher...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Jason Lynn Gay (40, Orlando) pleaded guilty today to making threats against the President of the United States. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set. Gay was indicted on Feb. 12, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
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