News from December 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - The results of the December 2014 Federal Grand Jury were announced today by Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: COAHUILA, Mexico - A 38-year-old man wanted in Mexico for his involvement in a homicide was removed and handed over to Mexican authorities Monday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) officers from El Paso, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jonathan Lopez-Polo, 26, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography, was sentenced to 25 years supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: Today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing on implementation of The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act), transformative federal spending transparency legislation that was first introduced by Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: Damage was the result of vandalism in early September.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - The U.S Attorney’s Office announced that David W. McQueen, age 44, of Byron Center, Michigan, was sentenced today to 30 years in prison and ordered to pay 32,036,997.63 in restitution to his victims and $926,787.00 in restitution to the IRS. McQueen was convicted on May 9, 2014...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: Please click here for a photo of Assistant U.S. Attorney Dave Conner.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Kansas City, Mo., attorney was sentenced in federal court today for money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today the unsealing of an indictment of Jorge Salazar, a/k/a J. Michael Salazar, for wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that CHRISTOPHER T. AGRITELLY, 30, formerly of New Britain, Conn., and Tempe, Ariz., pleaded guilty yesterday in Hartford federal court to failing to register as a sex offender. The Sex Offender...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Chief United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. sentenced Jeffrey Randall Metcalfe, 47, of Turlock, to 30 years in prison, to be followed by a lifetime term of supervised release, for receiving and distributing child pornography, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement on the House floor in support of H.R. 647, the Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - A new analysis by the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that legislation introduced by Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) and three dozen other House Democrats in May to tighten restrictions on corporate inversions could save taxpayers more than $33 billion over 10 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Thomas Rafferty, 68, of Levittown, PA, was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for taking sexually explicit pictures of young girls. The investigation began when one of the victims reported the abuse nine years after the events. Agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An attorney from Maplewood, New Jersey, today admitted his involvement in a scheme to smuggle contraband, including marijuana and tobacco, into the Essex County Jail, a federal pretrial detention facility, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Paterson City Council member and former council president today admitted accepting bribes from a purported developer in exchange for his official help, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Loretta E. Lynch released the following statement regarding the federal investigation into the July death of Eric Garner of New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - John Harold McGill, the former principal of Mt. Carmel Elementary School in Douglas County, Ga., has been convicted after a jury trial, of using emails and text messages to attempt to entice a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: LONGVIEW, Texas - U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that three individuals have been arrested following a lengthy investigation into a synthetic drug operation in the Eastern District of Texas.
By State Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the below statement, as prepared for delivery, at today’s hearing titled “Dismantling Iran's Nuclear Weapons Program: Next Steps To Achieve A Comprehensive Deal."
