News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Federal charges of heroin trafficking were filed today against a Wichita woman, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, March 13, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: Dear Administrator Tavenner: Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Medicare Advantage (MA) program has increased in strength. Enrollment is up by one-third, premiums are down by nearly nine percent, quality is improving, and 99 percent of beneficiaries have access to a plan. The ACA...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Committee on Homeland Security Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) delivered the following prepared remarks for the full Committee hearing on the President's FY2015 Budget Request for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Nimer Anton Massis, of Burlingame, Calif., pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco yesterday to making false statements to three federally insured lenders and the federal Small Business Administration (“SBA") to obtain approximately $1.9 million in loans for his various businesses, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - On March 12, 2014, federal fugitive Kelly Vern Mark Swoboda, 49, was killed during an encounter with a Portland Police Bureau Officer near Wilson High School. Swoboda was a wanted federal fugitive based on a supervised release violation issued in connection with his prior bank robbery...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Plainfield, N.J., woman was sentenced today to 87 months in prison for playing a role in three armed robberies of banks in Somerset and Middlesex counties, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: Alhassane Ould Mohamed, also known as “Cheibani," a Malian citizen charged with the murder and attempted murder of United States Embassy personnel stationed in Niamey, Niger, in December 2000, will be arraigned today at 2:00 p.m. in the Eastern District of New York. Mohamed was extradited to the United States by the Malian government, and today will be his first appearance on these charges in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that DACOTA ROGERS, 21, of Butte, was sentenced on Feb. 21, 2014, in the federal courtroom in Butte, by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam Haddon, to 224 months in prison followed by 3 years supervised release in connection with a guilty plea to Distribution of Fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that GARCIA DURAN, 35, of Box Elder, was sentenced to three years' probation and ordered to pay $7,674.43 in restitution to the Rocky Boy Health Board by U.S. District Judge Brian Morris during a federal court session in Great Falls on March 12, 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., spoke on the Senate floor in support of legislation that resolves longstanding problems with Medicare’s payment formula for physicians, and provides a wide range of reforms that improve care for seniors and increase transparency and accountability.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: An Ashland man was sentenced to five years in prison for his role in a holding woman with cognitive disabilities and her child against their will and forcing the woman to perform manual labor, law enforcement officials said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - This morning in federal court, Jasper Fernandez, 39, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Bloomfield, N.M., entered a guilty plea to a felony information charging him with involuntary manslaughter under a plea agreement with the United States Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Norris Eugene Heath, 39, of North Chesterfield, Va., was sentenced today to 41 months in federal prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, on charges of conspiring to manufacture counterfeit Federal Reserve Notes; and for passing counterfeit Federal Reserve Notes. Restitution to one of the victims was also ordered.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: U. S. Attorney Michael J. Moore announced today that Celeste Smith, aged 38, of Statham, Georgia, as well as Jessica Wise, aged 28, Antwan Byrd, aged 30, and Jerry Cooper, aged 64, of Athens, Georgia, were charged, on March 12, 2014, in United States District Court in Macon, in multiple-count indictments of illegally acquiring thousands of Schedule II, III, and IV, prescription pills, such as Oxycodone, Hydrocodone, and Alphrazolam (Xanax).
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: I would like to thank Chairmen Frelinghuysen and Rogers, Ranking Member Visclosky, Secretary Hagel, General Dempsey, Undersecretary Hale, and the rest of our distinguished guests.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Grace Roman Childers, 59, of Roswell, N.M., pleaded guilty today in Las Cruces federal court to a methamphetamine trafficking charge. The guilty plea was 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 Commander Mike Wilson of the Lea County Drug Task Force (LCDTF).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Va Nessa Taylor, 47, of Temple Hills, Md., was charged today by criminal complaint for allegedly engaging in misdemeanor assaults while working as a caregiver at the Cody Child Development Center (CDC) on Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall (JBM-HH) in Arlington, Va.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - John Bryan Villegas, 23, of Kittery, Maine, was sentenced today in federal court in New Hampshire to serve 33 months in prison for engaging in a type of cyber stalking known as “sextortion," announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney John P. Kacavas of the District of New Hampshire.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management is announcing a delay in the Haines Planning Area Amendment to the Ring of Fire Resource Management Plan.
