News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. A Manhattan, Kan., physician pleaded guilty today to unlawfully prescribing prescription drugs, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Hawthorne man who pleaded guilty in a murder-for-hire scheme targeting a man who was dating the daughter of his co-conspirator was sentenced today to seven years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - In an excellent twist of good judgment, Horace P. Albright Training Center was officially listed to the National Register of Historic Places on Sept. 30, 2013. The only National Park Service (NPS) training center in the West and located within the boundaries of Grand Canyon National Park, the Center is a state significant Historic District exemplifying simple, practical, modernist design of the Mission 66 Era.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - Two oil well operators in Hart County, and Logsdon Valley Oil Co. Inc., were sentenced today in United States District Court by Senior Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr., for continued violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on Jan. 16, 2014, before U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris, CHARLOTTE B. NEW BREAST, 53, of Browning, was sentenced to a term of three years probation, $50,000 in restitution, and a special assessment of $100.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: Seven defendants charged to date in ongoing fraud investigation at Massey legacy mines.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - At a Senate Finance Committee hearing today Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) emphasized the importance of renewing trade promotion authority (TPA) to help the Administration conclude trade agreements that would bring down trade barriers, open international markets for American manufacturers and create good-paying jobs in the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: Indictment Stems from USAO’s Overtown Violence Reduction Partnership.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A former Maine resident was sentenced yesterday for violating federal wildlife protection laws which prohibit the illegal purchase and transportation of wildlife.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Chatsworth man was arrested this morning by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation after being named in a federal grand jury indictment that charges him with running a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme that targeted Latino victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact was sentenced on Jan. 14, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a statement submitted this week to the Congressional Record, U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, marked the 50th anniversary of the landmark Surgeon General report on smoking and health.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: Luis Armando Piceno-Ornelas, 30, of Mexico, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on Jan. 15, 2014, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Piceno-Ornelas was arrested in Rock Springs, Wyoming. He received time served plus ten...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, 61-year-old San Antonio businessman Larry W. Kimes pleaded guilty to his role in what is believed to be the largest real dollar loss fraud and tax related case ever prosecuted in the Western District of Texas announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, FBI Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez and IRS-Criminal Investigation Special Agent In Charge Steve McCollough.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A former sergeant of the Portsmouth Sheriff’s Office (PSO) was sentenced to serve 15 months in prison today for accepting bribes in exchange for favors and referrals.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: A Greenville man pled guilty in federal district court on Jan. 16, 2014, to Attempt to Access with Intent to View Visual Depictions of Minors Engaged in Sexually Explicit Conduct, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Terry L. Adcock...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Ranking Member Nick J. Rahall, II (D-WV) today announced the establishment of the Committee’s next special panel, which will focus on the use of and opportunities for public-private partnerships (P3s) across all modes of transportation, economic development, public buildings, water, and maritime infrastructure and equipment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. DAYTON, OHIO - Dustin Hensley, 30, of Springfield, Ohio was sentenced to 300 months in prison for producing, distributing and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Arthur Wayne Townsend, 56, of Forest, Mississippi, pled guilty in federal court today to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis. Townsend will be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves on April 25, 2014 and faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison and a $1 million fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a federal jury found Calvin James Doherty, 43, of Tioga, La., guilty on Wednesday of being a felon in possession of explosive material and improper storage of explosive material. United States District Judge Dee D. Drell presided over the two-day trial.
