News from December 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Lawrence Madsen of Lowell, Massachusetts was convicted, after a jury trial in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire on six counts of aiding and abetting the illegal purchase of firearms at various southern New Hampshire federally licensed firearms dealers, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.

By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: Eastern National, a partner with the National Park Service, would like to invite you to meet author Dave Powell on Saturday, Dec. 27, 2014, at the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center. He has authored multiple books, including The Maps of Chickamauga, Failure in the Saddle, and most recently, The...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that NORWIN CASTELLON-LOPEZ, age 32, a citizen of Nicaragua, was sentenced today after having pled guilty to a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Henry Blain Howard (47, Bradenton) with arson, possessing an unregistered destructive device, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. If convicted on all counts, Howard faces a mandatory minimum term of 50 years in federal prison.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that GAIL TEAGUE, 48, of New Orleans, was charged today in a Bill of Information with one count of defrauding Ochsner Federal Credit Union.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jocelyn Wilson, age 22, formerly of Carmichael, California, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to serve 33 months in prison on the charges of access device fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that William J. Mabie, 56, of Festus, Missouri, was found guilty today in federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: COLUMBUS, OHIO - Stephen A. Cagle, 46, of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 36 months in prison for distributing cocaine and money laundering.

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security Chairman Sam Johnson (R-Texas) highlighted a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report detailing how the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) $200 billion disability benefits programs are at risk for physician-assisted fraud.

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, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A northwest suburban man was sentenced today to life in prison for plotting in 2012 to kidnap, torture, extort and murder an innocent victim and then take control of the victim’s real estate holdings. STEVEN MANDELL, 64, formerly known as “Steven Manning," of Buffalo Grove, was tried in February...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: Fargo - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Dec. 11, 2014, a Federal Trial Jury found Aaron A. Johnson and Derek M. Johnson, guilty on charges of conspiracy to commit fraud in connection with Federal Crop Insurance and Federal Crop Disaster Programs; making false statements to the United...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that CHERKISSA JACKSON, 42, of Napoleonville, was charged today in a one-count Indictment with making false statements.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: Savannah, GA: Viacheslav Zhukov, 33, a Russian citizen and lawful permanent resident of the United States, was sentenced last week by United States District Court Judge William T. Moore, Jr. to 51 months in federal prison for his role in illegally exporting firearm accessories from Savannah, Georgia to co-conspirators in Russia.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a hearing on “The Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975: Are We Positioning America for Success in an Era of Energy Abundance?" The hearing examined the current law and its effects on domestic...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: COLUMBUS, OHIO - Stephen A. Cagle, 46, of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 36 months in prison for distributing cocaine and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: Had Been Removed in 2005. ALBANY, NEW YORK - Alexis Fuentes, 40 years old of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced today to serve 41 months in prison by United States District Court Judge Glenn T. Suddaby announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Patrol Agent In Charge Norman Lague, Champlain...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: "John Muir is dead. Up through the far-flung reaches of the Yosemite, the Sequoia, the Muir Woods and all the mountain wilds of the West will ring the mournful echo of that message, for the birds, and the beast and all living things have lost a friend."--Los Angeles Times, Dec. 25, 1914.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a hearing on “The Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975: Are We Positioning America for Success in an Era of Energy Abundance?" The hearing examined the current law and its effects on domestic...