News published on Federal Newswire in March 2014

News from March 2014


News Release: LONDON - An 18-year-old man who stored a machine gun, gun components, nun chucks, CS gas and a host of other weaponry at his family home was sentenced to six years in prison Friday.


News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Bradford Mullane, 32, of Nashua, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 30 months in prison for unarmed bank robbery, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.


News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - United States Attorney Pamela C. Marsh announced thatthree men have been sentenced today by United States District Judge Mark Walker for conspiring to defraud the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) - - also known as the food stamp program - - and on other charges.


Flagstaff Area Monuments Celebrates Archaeology and Heritage Awareness (Flagstaff)

News Release: The Flagstaff Area Monuments Celebrates Archaeology and Heritage Awareness Month with Special Programs.


News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that SEAN MICHAEL KELLY, 37, of Columbia Falls, was sentenced to 63 months in prison followed by 5 years supervised release by Senior U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy on March 14, 2014. In December 2013, the defendant pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.


District Man Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison For Sexually Abusing Nine-Year-Old Boy-Defendant Repeatedly Abused Child Over Six-Month Period-

News Release: WASHINGTON - A 49-year-old man, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for sexually abusing a nine-year-old male relative, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.


News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA, - United States Attorney Pamela C. Marsh announced that Joshua Douglas Taylor, 24, of Shalimar, Florida, was sentenced yesterday afternoon by Chief U.S. District Judge Casey Rodgers to 360 months in prison for receipt and transportation of child pornography.


Harkin Statement on Department of Education’s Proposed Gainful Employment Rule

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today released the following statement regarding the Department of Education’s proposed gainful employment rule...


News Release: Prosecution represents more results in U.S. Attorney’s ongoing "Operation Community Watch".


Information: Federal Court Arraignments

News Release: The United States Attorney's Office today announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.


News Release: Washington D.C. - Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democratic member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, gave the following statement, as prepared for delivery, at today’s full committee hearing “The Promise of the Taiwan Relations Act.".


Taiwan Hearing Today at 9:30 AM – Chairman Royce Opening Statement

News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing TODAY to examine the progress made in U.S.-Taiwan relations over the past 35 years. The hearing entitled, “The Promise of the Taiwan Relations Act " will begin at 9:30 a.m.


News Release: WASHINGTON - Barrington Bennett, 36, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 60 years in prison for sexually assaulting four victims at knifepoint between December 2011 and August 2012, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.


Former CEO Of Technology Start-Up Indicted For Wire Fraud And Money Laundering

News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Yesterday a grand jury indicted Jonathan Edward (“Jon") Mills, the former Chief Executive Officer of a San Francisco-based technology company, for wire fraud and money laundering, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.


Vian Man Pleads Guilty To Maintaining Drug Involved Premises For Manufacture, Distribution And Use Of Methamphetamine

News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that CLIFFORD PERKINS JR., age 43, of Vian, Oklahoma, pled guilty to Maintaining Drug Involved Premises, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 856.


News Release: Donald Sheppard, 57, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by Information with one count of theft of government funds, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the information, after Sheppard’s mother died in December 2001, Sheppard improperly received and converted to his own...


Fci Danbury Employee Charged With Participating In Inmate Early Release Bribery Scheme

News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, March 14, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Ronald...


Medical Clinic Owner And Other Patient Recruiters Sentenced For Roles In $8 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme

News Release: Several patient recruiters, including a medical clinic owner, were sentenced today for their participation in a health care fraud scheme involving Flores Home Health Care Inc., a defunct home health care company.


Fort Thompson Woman Charged With Assault With A Dangerous Weapon

News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon.


News Release: Navy official allegedly set up $1.6 million contract for silencers from unlicensed company.