News from December 2014
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: MEDORA, ND: The National Park Serviceand the Theodore Roosevelt Nature and History Association announced the winterof the third Annual "Picture Yourself in Theodore Roosevelt National Park"Photo Contest on Saturday.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Nicodemus Darnell Jefferson (40, Jacksonville) with failing to register as sex offender. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in federal prison. Jefferson has been in custody since his arrest on Sept. 30, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: Spokane -Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Christopher James Carson, age 32, of Wellpinit, Washington, was sentenced on today after having previously pleaded guilty to Abusive Sexual Contact and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: A 37-year-old Brighton man was sentenced today in federal court to 64 months in prison for running a $3.8-million Ponzi scheme, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Former local radio host John Balyo, 35, of Grand Rapids, was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison today for producing and possessing child pornography. Balyo pled guilty to the charges in July 2014 and, as part of the plea, agreed to cooperate fully with law enforcement in...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 11 indictments charging 15 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: Both Felons Arrested As Part Of Seattle Police Emphasis On Street Crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Kelly R. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and Paula Reid, Special Agent in Charge, United States Secret Service (USSS), Miami Field Office, announce that Victorio...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - A Charleston, West Virginia felon who illegally possessed a firearm was sentenced today to 17 years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced. On Aug. 27, 2014, a jury found Diarra Jermaine Boddy, 44, guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Today’s sentence was handed down by United States District Court Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the guilty plea of SEAN MEADOWS, 41, for using his financial planning and asset management firm, Meadows Financial Group (MFG), operated a Ponzi scheme and fraudulently obtained millions of dollars from dozens of victims. The defendant pleaded guilty on Dec. 10, 2014, before Judge Susan Richard Nelson in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn., to Mail Fraud, Wire Fraud, and Money Laundering offenses.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, the House of Representatives passed critical legislation that would help federal agencies thwart cyber attacks. The bill, which updates a 12-year-old law to meet the federal government’s current cybersecurity needs, establishes real-time monitoring of federal computer networks, and enhances oversight of federal data breaches, now heads to the President’s desk to be signed into law.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: VAN BUREN, MO: Ozark National Scenic Riverways Superintendent Bill Black announces today that the Final General Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement (Final GMP) will be available online for public review on December 12.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Cedric Sewell, 51, of Stockton, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute heroin, possession with intent to distribute cocaine, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: After a bipartisan agreement to reform the multiemployer pension plan system and protect millions of workers from financial catastrophe was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives today, Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Senior Democratic Member George Miller (D-CA) issued the following joint statement...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement today regarding legislation negotiated in the House affecting multiemployer pensions. The legislation will be part of the omnibus spending bill Congress is considering this week.
By State Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), issued this statement following Senate passage of the bipartisan Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: Case is one of many brought as a result of the United States Attorney Stephen R. Wigginton’s Metro-East Armed Robbery Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: A 51-count indictment charging six individuals with drug trafficking crimes was unsealed this week, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Joseph P. Reagan, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Detroit office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: Boston - Two Chinese nationals, living in Massachusetts, were sentenced today in federal court for importing and reselling counterfeit cases for cell phones.
