News from December 2014
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: Upcoming Webinars. December 11: Live Webinar on Residential Energy Efficiency Deep Dive, Part One. Webinar Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service. The Energy Department and U.S. Department of Agriculture will present a live webinar titled "Residential Energy Efficiency Deep...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - ―An Aurora man who allegedly led the Chicago area cell of the Guerrero Unidos Mexican drug trafficking cartel is among eight defendants who are facing federal narcotics charges here for their alleged roles in distributing kilogram quantities of heroin, federal law enforcement officials announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - Seven individuals from four states have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of bank fraud and conspiracy to commit bank fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. A registered sex offender from Hamilton County, Kan., has been sentenced to 20 years in prison on a federal child pornography charge, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Andrew Stephen Jackson, age 44, of Florence, South Carolina was sentenced in federal court in Florence, for possession of child pornography, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(5)(B) and (b)(2) by United States District...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Easton, Mo., man was found guilty by a federal trial jury today of participating in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in the St. Joseph, Mo., area and a conspiracy to commit money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. A Wichita man who owned a business that sold scooters has been sentenced to 27 months in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today. In addition, he was ordered to pay $459,284 in restitution.
By State Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and U.S. Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, introduced H.R. 5825, the No Healthcare Subsidies for Foreign Diplomats Act, legislation to prevent foreign diplomats from...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that ALBERT ENTERA PINGUL was sentenced today by Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood, in the U.S. District Court of Guam, to thirty seven months incarceration, and five years supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - An Aurora man who allegedly led the Chicago area cell of the Guerrero Unidos Mexican drug trafficking cartel is among eight defendants who are facing federal narcotics charges here for their alleged roles in distributing kilogram quantities of heroin, federal law enforcement officials announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - BRIAN PALUCH, former Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President of PARIC Construction was indicted on three charges of mail fraud involving his scheme to use the company’s corporate funds to pay his own personal expenses during the period January, 2010 through February, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - ROBIN JEAN BITSEEDY, 41, of Anadarko, Oklahoma, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange to serve twelve months and one day in federal prison for embezzlement from the Wichita and Affiliated, Caddo, and Delaware Tribes, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. Bitseedy was also ordered to pay $141,820.47 in restitution to the tribes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States District Judge John E. Steele has sentenced William A. Vasden, Jr. (38, Tampa) to 4 years’ imprisonment for wire fraud and making false statements. The Court also ordered restitution for the victims in this case. Vasden pleaded guilty in March 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: A federal grand jury indicted 16 people for their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy that brought heroin to Youngstown, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Middlesex County, New Jersey, woman was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for sexually exploiting a minor female by coercing the girl to live stream sexually explicit acts via the Internet, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that ELADIO ARGUELLES, age 26, of El Paso, Texas, was sentenced to 78 months imprisonment and 4 years supervised release for an Information charging him with Possession with Intent to Distribute 5 Kilograms or More of Cocaine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(B).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Venizelos, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Charles Gardner, the Commissioner of the Yonkers Police Department, announced today the unsealing...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: MIAMI - The first Honduran national extradited to the United States for drug trafficking was sentenced yesterday to serve 20 years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, for his involvement in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine in the United States.
By State Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following statement at a committee hearing about progress combating ISIS...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: Genetic traits in weedy rice may someday be used to develop sturdy, high-yield varieties of cultivated rice that will flourish in the face of climate change, thanks to findings by scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). This work, conducted by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) plant physiologist Lewis Ziska and his colleagues.
