News from December 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Senate today passed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2015, which included a provision authored by House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) to establish a fair, predictable fee-setting system for families who own cabins in our National Forests. The bill will now be sent to the President to be signed into law.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Anthony Williams, 18, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to a 15-year prison term for a murder that took place in November 2013 in Southeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that THOMAS HARRISON, age 34, and RODNEY MACK, age 34, both residents of New Orleans, pled guilty yesterday to conspiracy to distribute and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin. Trial for the remaining five defendants is scheduled for Feb. 23, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Keith G. Smith, age 54, of Aurora, Colorado, was sentenced earlier this week to serve 9 months in federal prison by U.S. District Court Judge Raymond P. Moore for filing and assisting in preparing false tax returns, United States Attorney John Walsh and IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Kevin Walker, 39, of Washington, D.C., was found guilty by a jury today of two counts of first-degree murder while armed for the killings of siblings Jamie and Jamal Jenkins in July 2013, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, Dec. 12, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Timothy S. Griesemer, 40, of Jerseyville, Illinois was sentenced today in the U.S. District Court to 25 years in prison for Attempted Sex Trafficking of a Minor and Attempted Enticement...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: Memphis, Tenn. - Edward L. Stanton III, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced today that Ray Chism III, 42, and Remark Chism, 35, both of Memphis, Tennessee, were indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday for conspiracy to commit Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, four individuals received federal prison terms for their roles in a San Antoniobased firearms trafficking scheme announced U.S. Attorney Robert Pitman, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Janice Ayala and Special Agent in Charge Robert Elder, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Houston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Leslie R. Caldwell, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, announced that MARK MARMILEV was sentenced today to five years in prison for conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: Jemez Springs, NM- The Valles Caldera Trust has issued the following statement regarding the U.S. Senate's passage of legislation transferring management of the Valles Caldera National Preserve to the National Park Service.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: MINERAL - CA - The public is welcome to come and participate in the annual Christmas Bird Count in the Mineral area. For well over 100 years people of all ages interested in birds have taken to the field during the holiday season to count birds in and around their communities as part of the annual Christmas...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the conviction of AUSTIN ROMAIN, a New York City Correction Officer, in connection with his receipt of thousands of dollars in cash bribes to smuggle marijuana and other contraband into Rikers Island for inmates. Following a four-day trial before the Honorable Robert W. Sweet, United States District Judge, the jury convicted ROMAIN of bribery and narcotics offenses.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement today in support of the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) final rule to reform and modernize the union representation process.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, Dec. 12, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Jacque Lee Brown, 43, of Olney, Illinois, was indicted on Dec. 2, 2014, on a methamphetamine related charge in a one count Indictment returned by a Federal Grand Jury sitting in...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: One year in prison and ordered to pay $238,345 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that Latonya Young, 44, an employee of the Erie County Clerk’s Office who was assigned to work at the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles (NYS DMV), pleaded guilty plea to mail fraud before Chief U.S. District Court Judge William M. Skretny. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, Dec. 12, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that three East Hartford residents involved in a coast to coast drug trafficking ring were sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Rouchell Chesson, a/k/a “Black," age 31, of Washington, D.C., today to 10 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to participate in a racketeering conspiracy in connection with the Bloods gang operating primarily out of Howard County, Maryland.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Celebrate the 139th birthday of the “Father of Black History", Carter G. Woodson, with the National Park Service (NPS), Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Inc. (ASALH), and the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. by. Join us for a special program and music onFriday, December 19 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.mat Shiloh Baptist Church, located at 1500 9th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Senate approved the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA), as part of the FY 2015 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). FITARA will improve how the federal government acquires, implements and manages its information technology investments by giving...
