News from December 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Justin Thomas Shipley, 30, of Portales, N.M., entered a guilty plea today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to methamphetamine trafficking and firearms charges. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Shipley will be sentenced to eight years in prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney’s Office announces today that there will be a sentencing hearing Monday (Dec. 15, 2014) in United States v. Kirstie Barratt. The hearing will be held at 10:30 am on Dec. 15, 2014, before United States District Judge Joseph F. Anderson, Jr. (courtroom # 4) at the Matthew J. Perry Federal Courthouse in Columbia, South Carolina.
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, announced that CLAYTON CARNEY, also known as “Hardcore," 38, of Hamden, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Shana Marie Lawson, age 36, was sentenced in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina, for failure to register as a sex offender, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a). Chief United States District Judge J. Michelle Childs of Columbia sentenced Lawson to 15 months to be followed by 5 years supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: Fishers man defrauded businesses of over $600,000 on false promises.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 13 count superseding indictment charging Sreekrishna M. Cheruvu, M.D., 58, of East Amherst, NY, with health care fraud and submitting false statements relating to health care matters. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Obama Administration announced the close of the Office of U.S. Trade Representative’s 2014 Out-of-Cycle Review (OCR) which evaluated India’s policies on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who had previously called on the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: Victim was a 14 year-old girl he met at the Braddock Road Metro Station.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. Yellowstone National Park. P.O. Box 168. Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190. Dec. 12, 2014 14-088. Al Nash. (307) 344-2015. YELL_Public_Affairs@nps.gov. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK NEWS RELEASE. Monday Marks Start Of Yellowstone's Winter Season. Yellowstone...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: SPOKANE - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Casey Edward Murdock, age 31, of Newport, Washington, was sentenced today after having previously pleaded guilty on September 4, 2014 to Distribution of Child Pornography Images. Chief United States...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of H.R. 83, the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2015, the House Thursday evening again approved the Travel Promotion, Enhancement, and Modernization Act of 2014. This jobs bill reauthorizes Brand USA, the public-private partnership created to promote...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: In San Antonio today, 49-year-old Yolanda Hernandez de Arteaga, the former operator of the Los Compadres Restaurant in LaVernia, TX, pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with the execution of a fraud scheme for financial benefit which targeted individuals seeking legitimate immigration documents announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DARRELL LEWIS, age 29, STERLING PIPKINS, age 30, KEVIN WALKER, age 22, CARL LEWIS, age 21, DARRYL LEWIS, age 60, DEMONIDE ROWLEY, age 37, NERIMANE BONCHAMA, age 21, TANESHEN GRANDBERRY, age 38, MICHAEL MCQUITTY, age 40, all of New Orleans, were charged in a thirteen-count indictment for violations of the Federal Controlled Substances Act and the Federal Gun Control Act.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of H.R. 83, the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2015, the House Thursday evening again approved the Travel Promotion, Enhancement, and Modernization Act of 2014. This jobs bill reauthorizes Brand USA, the public-private partnership created to promote...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: Scheme Involved International Environmental Consulting Contracts, Including Reconstruction Contracts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today secured final Senate passage of legislation supporting Southeast Alaska’s struggling timber industry and completing the federal land conveyance owed to the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian tribal shareholders of the Sealaska Native Regional Corp.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Northern District of Florida. Friday, Dec. 12, 2014. Follow @NDFLNews. TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - On Dec. 3, 2014, a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Isaiah Chiles of Springfield, Ohio, charging him with production of child pornography...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States District Judge Richard A. Lazzara today sentenced Derrick L. Hayes, a/k/a “D-Man" (27, St. Petersburg), to 30 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for engaging in the sex trafficking of children. He must also register as a sex offender. Hayes pleaded guilty on Sept. 25, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C.-The National Park Service (NPS), Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, is hosting a public meeting regardingFletchers Cove river access. The public is invited to provide inputon Dec. 17, 2014 from6:30 PM to 8:00 PMat the NPS National Capital Region Headquarters locatedat1100 Ohio Drive, SW, Washington, DC,20242.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) voiced his opposition to moving the Administration’s nominee to head the Social Security Administration (SSA), Carolyn Colvin, forward.
