News from August 2014
By State Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC -U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement in support of USAID efforts to empower Cuban civil society:
By USDA Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: Through the Doing Business in Africa campaign, the U.S. government is strengthening its commercial relationship with the continent of Africa.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Xue Heu, 37, of Modesto, was arrested this morning following an indictment by a federal grand jury charging him with wire fraud in connection with a fraudulent real estate investment scheme, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - Two Dallas men, who admitted committing the armed robberies of several businesses in the Dallas area in 2012-2013, have pleaded guilty to federal charges, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Late today, a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging MATTHEW LANE DURHAM, 19, from Edmond, Oklahoma, with traveling from Oklahoma City to Kenya to engage in illicit sexual conduct with children, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: Matthew Amato, 31, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today in an information with one count of making false statements to banks, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Phillip Larez, 33, of Carlsbad, N.M., entered a guilty plea this afternoon in Las Cruces federal court to a distribution of a controlled substance analogue charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Larez will be sentenced to a year of probation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Phloch Ouk, 46, of San Jose, pleaded guilty today to growing fifty or more marijuana plants.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Erik Moreno, 19, of Stockton, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton to 10 years in prison for distributing methamphetamine in a case resulting from the Operation Gideon IV investigation, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - ― A former physician who was affiliated with three Chicago hospitals was sentenced today to nearly six years in federal prison for illegally distributing prescription drugs in exchange for sex and cash.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Little Eagle, South Dakota, man convicted of Domestic Assault by a Habitual Offender was sentenced on July 28, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: A Warren man was sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison for illegally selling firearms, heroin and cocaine, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio. Lewis Powell, 37, was sentenced to 155 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Donald Nugent. Powell ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Brandon Correa, 30, of Rochester, N.Y., with making a direct threat to kill the President of the United States, Barack Obama. The defendant is also accused of making online threats to kill New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York Lieutenant Governor Robert Duffy. Each count is punishable by five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - An indictment was unsealed today charging Chaka Fattah, Jr., 31, of Philadelphia, in a scheme to defraud banks and the Internal Revenue Service of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The indictment charges that between 2005 and 2012, Fattah, Jr.: made false statements to banks to obtain...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - Christopher Michael Morgan, 41, a resident of Coos County, Oregon, appeared before United States District Court Chief Judge Ann Aiken on July 29, 2014 and pled guilty to being an armed career criminal. Morgan, a felon, admitted possessing a loaded.45 caliber pistol in a woman’s restroom at Mingus Park in Coos Bay, Oregon, at 1:30 am on June 18, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Phillip Larez, 33, of Carlsbad, N.M., entered a guilty plea this afternoon in Las Cruces federal court to a distribution of a controlled substance analogue charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Larez will be sentenced to a year of probation.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: In anticipation of Hurricane Iselle bearing down on the Hawaiian Islands, Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park will remain open, but park officials are closing all backcountry areas and some roads.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced JAMES WILLIS KIRK, JR., age 63, and GLEN E. SMITH, JR., age 60, to 60 months and 48 months imprisonment respectively. A third defendant, CAROL APRIL GRAFF, age 61, was sentenced to 18 months. At the request of the government the award of restitution has been postponed for 60 days.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: The owner of a Youngstown-based company was sentenced to more than two years in prison for violating the Clean Water Act by dumping fracking waste into a tributary of the Mahoning River, said Steven M. Dettelbach, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
