News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Joseph H. Hogsett, the United States Attorney, announced today that Jackie J. Whittley, Jr., age 32, of Cynthiana, was sentenced to 180 months in prison today by Chief U.S. District Judge Richard L. Young after being convicted of illegally possessing a sawed-off shotgun, along with numerous ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced the retirement of Kathy T. Penfield, financial auditor, who served in the Western District of Louisiana for 22 years. Penfield was honored on Tuesday, January 7, 2014, at a retirement ceremony held at the U.S. Courthouse in Shreveport. Her last day with the office was Dec. 31, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: FARGO - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Jan. 8, 2014, Dustin Howard Muscha, 33, of Moorhead, Minn., was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson on two counts of sexual exploitation of minors and two counts of possession of materials involving the sexual exploitation of minors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Domenico Lonardo, 36, of Hilton, N.Y., who was convicted of manufacturing 100 or more marijuana plants, was sentenced to 60 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today two plea agreements in a multi-national conspiracy to illegally import and sell narwhal tusks.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) convened the hearing on the nomination of John Roth to be Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security. For more information on the hearing or.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Braddock woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of theft of mail and destruction of letter/mail boxes, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Wanblee, South Dakota, woman convicted of conspiracy to distribute more than 1 kilogram of marijuana was sentenced on Jan. 2, 2014, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.B U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul announced today that Horace Daniels, 71, of Geneva, N.Y., who was convicted of possession of child pornography, was sentenced 10 years supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that after a hearing on January 6, 2014 in Wilkes-Barre, U.S. Senior District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo, issued an 11 page Memorandum and an Order on January 7 finding that former Pennsylvania Senator Raphael Musto is not mentally competent to stand trial, by a fair preponderance of the evidence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: JJackson, Miss - Patrina Bester Hayes, 37, of Paulding, Mississippi, joined her co-defendant Lornell Von Moore, 48, also of Paulding, by pleading guilty today to conspiring with Moore to launder his drug money, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Special Agent in Charge Gabriel Grchan of Internal...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Committee of Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and co-chair of the Congressional Fire Services Caucus, co-sponsored legislation that would clarify the employer requirements for volunteer fire departments and emergency responders.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today began seeking public input as they work to review and update the Communications Act. In December, Upton and Walden announced that the committee...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today spoke in support of H.R. 3527, the Poison Center Network Act. H.R. 3527 was introduced by Energy and Commerce Committee member Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE). The bipartisan legislation reauthorizes important activities related to poison control...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that KORDELL NESBITT pled guilty today to charges arising from his involvement in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana. NESBITT, at the time an Immigration Enforcement Agent (“IEA") with the Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: Boston - A Harvard, Mass. couple today pleaded guilty to an Information in federal court charging them with one count of violating the Fair Labor Standards Act. The couple failed to pay their nanny and housekeeper minimum wage for over 13 years. As part of their plea agreement, the defendants will pay the nanny a substantial portion of the wages owed her.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today spoke in support of H.R. 3527, the Poison Center Network Act. H.R. 3527 was introduced by Energy and Commerce Committee member Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE). The bipartisan legislation reauthorizes important activities related to poison control...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Corpus Christi resident Paul Pittman, 45, has been sentenced to seven years for possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Pittman pleaded guilty Oct. 3, 2013.
