News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: Third annual ceremony lauds students for exceptional character, commitment to social justice.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced that Encap LLC, Green Bay, Wis., has paid $525 to settle alleged violations of the Federal Seed Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 72-year-old Longview, Texas man has been convicted of drug trafficking charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ERIC O’NEAL SELDERS, age 43, from Independence, pled guilty today to a federal gun charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. Office of Public Affairs. On Feb. 26, 2014, a federal grand jury returned a sealed 6‑count indictment charging 7 individuals with multiple counts of federal drug and firearms violations. The indictment resulted from a lengthy investigation launched by the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, March 12, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Ronald G. Gardella, Special Agent-in-Charge, Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, New York Field...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Gregory L. Tropea, 52, of Newport News, Va., was sentenced yesterday to 336 months and a lifetime of supervised release for his convictions on three counts of receipt of child pornography and one count of making a false statement to an agent of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two tobacco wholesale businesses located in Sharon, Pa., and their owner and manager have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of mail fraud and filing false reports of cash transactions, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Jamie Golladay, 32, of Antelope, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, possession with intent to distribute heroin, and possession of a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Robbie Mouton, 56, of Youngsville, La., pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge C. Michael Hill to one count of negligent discharge of pollutants.
By State Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, offered legislation today providing authority for Ukrainian loan guarantees and to assist in the country’s stabilization and recovery, including sanctions on individuals responsible for human rights abuses and persons violating the sovereign territorial integrity of Ukraine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Mar. 10, 2014, Melissa Ann Nowlin, 28, of Kingsport, Tenn., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of conspiracy to defraud the government with respect to claims and four counts of theft of public money.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ROBERT OKAMURA, 46, was sentenced to 19 years and 7 months’ imprisonment by United States District Judge Edgardo Ramos for his attempted enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity. Judge RAMOS also imposed a 10-year term of supervised release to follow the imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - James Alfred Beckman, Jr., 39, of Mattawan, Michigan was convicted by a jury of ten counts of attempting to sexually exploit a child by trying to make his own child pornography, one count of attempting to coerce and entice a child to commit a sex act, two counts of distributing...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Herman Curtis Malone, 45, of Upper Marlboro, Md., pled guilty today to a federal drug offense for his role in a network that distributed substantial quantities of cocaine and heroin in the Washington, D.C. area.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Samuel G. Mamudu, 25, of Henrico, Va., was convicted yesterday by a federal jury on charges for his role in the October 9, 2013, gun-point robbery of Prince Jeweler’s jewelry store in the Chesterfield Towne Center Mall.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - John Spangler, 43, of Frederick, Md., pleaded guilty today to mail fraud for a scheme to defraud two government contractors of more than $635,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: ELIZABETH CITY - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced IRVING BENNERMAN, 47, of Wilmington to 210 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held a legislative hearing to examine draft legislation aimed at reauthorizing the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act. Released last week, the draft legislation would reauthorize...
