News from August 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Aug. 11, 2014, Eddie Ray Strickland, Jr., 35, of Portland, Oregon, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after he was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm and the Court finding that he qualified as an Armed Career Criminal. Following his federal prison sentence Strickland will be required to serve three years of supervised release, which includes a condition prohibiting the defendant from associating with any known gang members.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: - Firearms were secreted inside video game systems for shipment to foreign addresses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: POCATELLO - Lloyd Elmo Gale, 53, and Linda Rae Westmoreland, 51, both of Rupert, Idaho, were sentenced to federal prison today for trafficking methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Gale was sentenced to serve 87 months imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal appeals court ruled today that a district judge's sentence of probation was unreasonable for a computer software vendor who paid more than $600,000 in bribes over four years to the chancellor of Alabama's two-year college system, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A regional manager and a product specialist selling medical devices to hospitals for Integra LifeSciences Corp. of Plainsboro, New Jersey, today admitted their roles in a scheme to defraud hospitals of more than $800,000, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Carlo J. Marinello, II, 68, of Williamsville, N.Y., was convicted by a federal jury of one count of obstructing and impeding the due administration of the Internal Revenue Code, four counts of failing to file personal income tax...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: Come see the night sky the way it used to look before city lights crowded out the stars. Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument offers an ideal balance between convenient location - an easy drive from Colorado Springs- and a sky dark enough to reveal the countless stars that once lit the night for our ancestors.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - More than 600 illegal immigrant detainees released by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement(ICE) in February 2013 have previous criminal convictions, according to a new report from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General. ICE released over 2,000 illegal immigrant...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina -----United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that a Federal Grand Jury in Greenville, South Carolina, returned an Indictment alleging a conspiracy to obstruct justice and to hide assets in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371. The following individuals were charged in the indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Ronald Peterson, 53, Lac du Flambeau, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman to 21 months in federal prison for distributing oxycodone in April 2013. Peterson pleaded guilty to this charge on May 20, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014-Two lightning fires ignited overnight are burning in Mount Rainier National Park's backcountry. The Shadow Lake fire is located near Sunrise and the Scarface West Fire near Grand Park. At this time no structures are threatened.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today applauded the news that two more committee bills, H.R. 4631, the Autism CARES Act, and H.R. 3548, the Improving Trauma Care Act, were signed into law late Friday. The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), boasts a strong record of bipartisan success with nearly two dozen public health measures now law.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today applauded the news that two more committee bills, H.R. 4631, the Autism CARES Act, and H.R. 3548, the Improving Trauma Care Act, were signed into law late Friday. The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), boasts a strong record of bipartisan success with nearly two dozen public health measures now law.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: Nancy Haver, Massachusetts-based artist and illustrator, has been captivated by the printing process since childhood, when she helped her father develop black and white photographs. Still drawn to the intense contrasts and patterns typical of woodcut and wood engravings, she enjoys using these media...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Scott B. Miserendino, Sr., 55, a former contractor for the United States Navy Military Sealift Command, pleaded guilty today to accepting bribes and conspiring to commit bribery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Nathan John Vert, 30, of Caldwell, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 57 months for unlawfully possessing a firearm, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Vert to serve three years of supervised release and to forfeit the firearm he illegally possessed. He pleaded guilty to the charge on May 19, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma, announced Robert T. Raley, Assistant United States Attorney and current Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) prosecutor, was named the Oklahoma Region II Prosecutor of the Year. The award was presented by the Association of Oklahoma Narcotic Enforcers (A-ONE) on August 7, 2014, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014 will be a family fun day as the National Park Service and First Flight Society, a park partner, celebrate National Aviation Day at Wright Brothers National Memorial, the birthplace of modern aviation.President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed August 19th as National Aviation...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today applauded the news that two more committee bills, H.R. 4631, the Autism CARES Act, and H.R. 3548, the Improving Trauma Care Act, were signed into law late Friday. The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), boasts a strong record of bipartisan success with nearly two dozen public health measures now law.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - The results of the August 2014 Federal Grand Jury were announced today by Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma. The following named individuals have been charged with a federal crime or crimes by the return of an indictment by the Grand Jury.
