News from December 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2014
News Release: Nineteen of Twenty-One Defendants Charged Have Entered Guilty Pleas as a.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment yesterday adding three additional charges against a Saco, Maine man.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2014
News Release: (Saipan, MP), ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), announced that ANNETTE NAKATSUKASA BASA, was sentenced today, December 5, 2014, in the U.S. District Court of the Northern Mariana Islands by Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona, for...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2014
News Release: Undercover FBI agent posed as an Egyptian intelligence officer.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) met with reporters today to discuss the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the need to continue to focus on the continuing negotiations of that agreement instead of focusing on Trade Promotion Authority. Segments of his remarks are transcribed below...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2014
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By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2014
News Release: Between December 8 and 11, 2014, Haleakalā National Park will use contracted helicopters to eliminate 3000 invasive pine trees in the park.These trees are located on terrain and cliffs that are too steep or remote for park staff to safely access on foot. The removal will conserve the iconic crater views...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, December 5, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. A Centralia resident was charged in federal district court on Dec. 3, 2014, for burglarizing a federal firearms licensee and attempting to sell the guns, the United States Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2014
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Patrick Miles, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan announced today that Christopher T. Bryant, 24, of Detroit was convicted on all five counts of a superseding indictment charging sex trafficking of minors; sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion; and interstate...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 5, 2014
Release: BBC News recently highlighted how the Food for Progress program is helping boost productivity and prosperity for farmers in Ethiopia.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Michael Lott, 39, of Vallejo, was sentenced to 14 years in prison yesterday after entering guilty pleas to drug trafficking charges in a wide-ranging conspiracy to distribute MDMA and crack cocaine, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. In imposing sentence, Chief United States District Judge Morrison C. England, Jr. said the defendant was at the center of a massive drug conspiracy and his conduct warranted a significant sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, December 5, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that VINCENT CLARK, also known as “Nu-Nu" and “Duke," 33, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2014
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - James Carrol Hickman, 41, of Dandridge, Tenn., was convicted of aiding and abetting in the illegal production of distilled spirits by a person who was not an authorized distiller (illegal production of “moonshine"). Hickman was convicted on Dec. 5, 2014, following a two-day jury trial, and is scheduled for sentencing on Mar. 17, 2015. He faces a possible sentence of up to five years in federal prison and up to $10,000 in fines.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that Anthony Vincent Burkitt, a/k/a “Vincent Thomas Wolfe," (44, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of failing to register as a sex offender after traveling to Florida from Maryland. He faces a maximum of 10 years in federal prison, and a lifetime of supervision. Burkitt has been in custody since his arrest on April 13, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Kansas City, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for illegally possessing numerous firearms, including a handgun that was used to commit a murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Richard Lara, 23, of Providence, R.I., was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison on Thursday for his role in a scheme in which personal identifying information of more than 1,200 individuals was stolen, many of which were used to file fraudulent tax returns with the IRS totaling...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 5, 2014
News Release: The Aviation Subcommittee, chaired by U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ), will hold a hearing next week on the status of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) integration into U.S. airspace and the development of the UAS industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2014
News Release: The former director of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Nursing Anesthesiology School was sentenced to two years in prison for embezzling $215,760 from the school, said U.S. Attorney Steven M. Dettelbach.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Latrobe, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 24 months imprisonment on her conviction of income tax evasion, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
