News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Pamela J. Unruh, 58, of Rainer, Washington, pleaded guilty today in federal court to an information charging her with one count of false statement or fraud to obtain Federal Employee’s Compensation, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Yesterday, Jan. 29, U.S. Magistrate Judge Marcos E. López authorized a complaint charging: Joselito Taveras, Miguel Jimenez, and Alberto Dominguez with conspiracy to possess and possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, and conspiracy to import and importation of controlled substances, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mandan, North Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Theft Concerning Programs Receiving Federal Funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury yesterday found Jason Lydell Orr (35, Merritt Island) guilty of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Based on his prior felony convictions, Orr faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years, up to life in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for April 14, 2014, before Senior U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell. Orr was indicted on Sept. 25, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: JABARI RAGAS, age 40, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty to money laundering and filing a false tax return in federal court today before United States District Court Judge Lance M. Africk, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy today announced $3 million to spur geothermal energy development using play fairway analysis. This technique identifies prospective geothermal resources in areas with no obvious surface expression by mapping the most favorable intersections of heat, permeability, and fluid.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Francisco Javier Maya, 35, has been convicted of one count of conspiracy to possess and possession with intent to distribute approximately 1,000 pounds of marijuana, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The verdict was returned less than an hour ago after two days of trial testimony and approximately six hours of deliberations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARK MISSINO, also known as “Mark Houston" and “Mark Serano," 46, formerly of Waterford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge William I. Garfinkel in Bridgeport to one count of possession of firearms by a previously convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - David Crisostomi, 38, of East Providence, R.I., was sentenced on Wednesday to 35 years in federal prison for using a prepubescent minor to manufacture child pornography and for possessing and distributing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha, Colonel Steven G. O’Donnell, Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police, and Vincent B. Lisi, Special Agent in Charge of the Boston field office of the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Phillip Jacob Castaneda, 28, of Carlsbad, N.M., entered a guilty plea this morning in federal court in Las Cruces to violating the Hobbs Act by robbing a business engaged in interstate commerce, announced by Acting U.S. Attorney Steven C. Yarbrough, 5th Judicial District Attorney Janetta B. Hicks, Special Agent in Charge Carol K.O. Lee of the Albuquerque Division of the FBI and Carlsbad Police Chief Kent Waller.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: A Stow man was sentenced to nearly three years in prison for defrauding his employer out of more than $744,000, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: Todd Ryan Frazier, 31, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, entered a plea of guilty in federal district court to an Indictment charging Embezzlement and Theft from the Carterville School District - a unit of local government that received federal funds, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Christopher Paul Benoit, 33, of Jennings, La., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Patricia Minaldi to conspiring to unlawfully import and possess with intent to distribute anabolic steroids.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders responded today to the consent decree filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that establishes a deadline of Dec. 19, 2014, for the Environmental Protection Agency to take a final action on the coal ash rule that...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: BISMARCK- U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Jan. 30, 2014, Rodney L. Kirk, 46, Spanish Fork, Utah, pleaded guilty and was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on a charge of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance (methamphetamine).
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) today released a letter sent to U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, demanding documents and a briefing on steps taken to address the “string of contracting scandals that have engulfed the U.S. Navy."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Attempted Trafficking with Respect to Involuntary Servitude and Forced Labor was sentenced on Jan. 27, 2014, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee today wrote to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler regarding proposals to change and expand the current Universal Service Fund’s Schools and...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders responded today to the consent decree filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that establishes a deadline of Dec. 19, 2014, for the Environmental Protection Agency to take a final action on the coal ash rule that...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, chaired by U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), will hold a hearing on Tuesday to examine the future of federal navigation programs.
