News from July 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: Beckley, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that two Ronceverte men appeared in federal court in Beckley before the Honorable Irene C. Berger. Jeffrey S. Walton, 48, was sentenced to 10 months in prison for abusive sexual contact with a female federal inmate. Walton pled guilty...
By State Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks at a Committee briefing on U.S. policy in Syria...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a new memorandum released Friday, Attorney General Eric Holder urged federal law enforcement agencies to identify, train and equip personnel who may interact with a victim of a heroin overdose with the drug naloxone. This latest step by the Attorney General will pave the way for certain...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Filed Office, and J.D. Patterson, Director, Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD), announce the indictment of Roderick Silva, 45, of Miami...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - In Seon Lim, a former contracting official for the U.S. Department of the Army, pled guilty today to federal charges stemming from a scheme in which he accepted over $490,000 worth of benefits, including cash payments and vacations, from favored contractors. In return, he helped these businesses obtain millions of dollars in federal contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment today against Jose Antonio Reyna-Chavez (Reyna), 18, of Michoacàn, Mexico, charging him with conspiring to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute marijuana, manufacturing marijuana, possessing marijuana with intent to distribute, damaging public land and natural resources, and avoiding immigration officers, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Eric Johnston, 23, of Folsom, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to 12 years in prison, to be followed by 20 years of supervised release, for attempted enticement of a minor, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Eric Tubbs, 54, of Philadelphia, was sentenced yesterday to 70 months in prison for fraudulently selling properties he did not own. Tubbs found vacant properties, created phony deeds which falsely transferred the properties from the legitimate owners to individuals recruited by him, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Daniel M. Layne, 34, of Houston, has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of production of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Layne pleaded guilty Friday, Feb. 14, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two Romanians residing in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, have been sentenced in federal court to time-served on their conviction of conspiracy, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 33 months in prison and three years supervised release on her conviction of distribution of heroin, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today applauded the joint-venture agreement between Shell Oil and Arctic Inupiat Offshore (AIO) - a new company formed by Arctic Slope Regional Corporation with several North Slope native village corporations - which gives native-owned AIO the option to acquire a working interest in Chukchi Sea oil and gas development.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The federal government systematically mismanaged the contracts to develop the HealthCare.gov website leading to last year’s disastrous roll-out while wasting millions of taxpayer dollars, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that Tyree Arvell Monroe, Trayon Alphonse Caulton and Walter J. Porter of Mobile were sentenced following April 2014, guilty pleas to a charge of theft of firearms from a federally licensed firearm dealer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
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By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: CUMBERLAND, MD -The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park (C&O Canal) seeks local educators to assist with delivery of the new education programs in Allegany County for the fall. The C&O Canal Trust, the park's official non-profit partner, will offer a daily stipend. A training workshop will be held for new recruits August 27-29, 2014 at the C&O Canal Classroom at Canal Place in Cumberland, Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment today against Jose Antonio Reyna-Chavez (Reyna), 18, of Michoacán, Mexico, charging him with conspiring to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute marijuana, manufacturing marijuana, possessing marijuana with intent to distribute, damaging public land and natural resources, and avoiding immigration officers, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: Therra Elsner, 32, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on July 30, 2014, on one count of passing counterfeit obligations of the United States of America and one count of passing counterfeit obligations of the United States and aiding and abetting. Elsner...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Stephanie Patterson, age 41, of Royersford, Pennsylvania, was sentenced yesterday by the Honorable Leonard P. Stark, Chief Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Delaware...
