News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced today that Derek Parker, 30, of Gonic, New Hampshire, was sentenced in United States District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to 4 years in prison to be followed by 3 years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute heroin. Parker pleaded guilty to the offense on Nov. 13, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Arvel Crawford, 23, of Washington, D.C., has been found guilty by a jury of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, and related weapons charges for the slayings of two people in 2008, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Bradford Lamar Daley, of Phenix City, Alabama, and Terril Yarham, of Missouri, pled guilty before United States Magistrate Judge Charles S. Coody, for engaging in a conspiracy to commit wire fraud, announced George L. Beck, Jr., United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama. Daley also pled guilty to money laundering and tax fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: CONCORD, N H: Justin Madigan, 31, of Barrington, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 5 years in prison after pleading guilty to transportation of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Aliquippa, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of mail fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. On Feb. 27, 2014, Aaron M. Trover, 32, of Vienna, Illinois, was sentenced in United States District Court in Benton on a one-count indictment charging conspiracy to manufacture...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: Court Orders Forfeiture of Over $3 Million in Fraud Proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: Today, President Obama announced a new initiative called “My Brother’s Keeper" to address poverty, violence and incarceration rates among young men of color. Specifically, the Obama Administration will create a new presidential task force, the “My Brother’s Keeper Task Force," that will assess which ...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today said a new study by Oliver Wyman confirmed that steep cuts to the popular Medicare Advantage (MA) program will hurt seniors’ access to quality and affordable health care. The report found that seniors who rely on this critical program may see their benefits reduced and premiums increased by between $65 to $145 a month over the next two years.
By State Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democratic member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the below remarks, as prepared for delivery, at today’s full committee markup of H.R. 2548, the Electrify Africa Act of 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury indicted brothers Luis Cortez-Garcia, 44, and Emiliano Cortez-Garcia, 37, of Sacramento, today charging them with unlawful manufacturing and sales of firearms, conspiracy to unlawfully manufacture and sell firearms, and several counts each related to the unlawful...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) called on the Obama Administration to protect the First Amendment and put an end to the proposed Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rule designed to suppress the free speech of 501(c)4 groups, or social welfare organizations. The public comment period for the proposed regulations ends today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Carrolltown, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 46 months in prison and three years supervised release on his conviction of conspiracy to commit money laundering, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Dennis George Cheresposy, 49, a member and resident of the Pueblo of Laguna, was sentenced this morning to 30 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on two assault charges. The court deferred ruling until a later time the amount of restitution Cheresposy will be required to pay to cover the costs of medical treatment for the victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: Antiquity Linked To Convicted Smuggler Gianfranco Becchina.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bernard Chung, 31, of Falls Church, Va., was sentenced today to a 37-month prison term for embezzling more than $400,000 from a law firm where he worked as an office manager, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: DANIEL NOLAN DEVOR, age 40, a resident of Brunswick, Georgia, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown, to conspiracy to produce child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: As part of President Obama's all-of-the-above strategy to continue to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oil and gas lease auction today netted more than $31 million in revenues from the sale of 76 Federal leases in the States of New Mexico, Oklahoma...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: OAKLAND - Antonio Chavez was sentenced yesterday to 2 years in prison for assaulting a security guard protecting the federal courthouse in Oakland, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag, FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson and Mario A. Canton, Regional Director at the Department of Homeland Security.
By State Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) today introduced a Senate Resolution deploring the violent repression of peaceful demonstrations in Venezuela, calling for full accountability for human rights violations, and supporting the right of the Venezuelan people to live freely and democratically.
