News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | May 13, 2014
News Release: Fire researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will return to Spartanburg, S.C., on May 15-21, 2014, as part of a collaborative effort on a series of controlled-burn experiments in detached single-family homes slated for demolition.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A former West Harwich man was sentenced today for attempting to recruit two homeless men to burn a West Harwich residence and then attempting to tamper with the witnesses of the criminal case.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2014
News Release: An indictment was unsealed yesterday charging Jucontee Thomas Woewiyu, a/k/a “Jucontee Thomas Smith," 68, of Collingdale, Pennsylvania, with lying on his application for U.S. citizenship by not disclosing his alleged affiliation with a violent political group in Liberia, announced United States Attorney...
By DOL Newswire | May 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement after today’s law enforcement announcement against Sallie Mae for violations of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A former West Harwich man was sentenced today for attempting to recruit two homeless men to burn a West Harwich residence and then attempting to tamper with the witnesses of the criminal case.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2014
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A federal grand jury has indicted Raul Ochoa-Perez, 42, of Laredo, on charges of conspiracy to kidnap and kidnapping, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2014
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By Commerce Newswire | May 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican leaders today wrote to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler regarding the commission’s consideration of reclassifying broadband Internet as a common carrier telecommunications service under Title II of the Communications...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated Eric Pack, 54, of Burlington, Vermont was sentenced on May 13, 2014 for distribution of crack cocaine. Judge J. Garvan Murtha, sitting in Brattleboro, sentenced Pack to 60 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release.
By USDA Newswire | May 13, 2014
News Release: Stabenow Examines Impact of High Frequency Trading, Says Regulators Need Resources, Tools to Ensure Markets are Working
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2014
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Alton V. Morehead, age 36, of Pasco, Washington, was sentenced today for Production of Child Pornography. Senior United States District Court Judge Edward F. Shea sentenced Morehead to a twenty...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2014
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina ----- The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that Edwin Donald Givens, age 50, of Columbia, South Carolina, pled guilty to an Information (copy attached) charging him with misprision of a felony in connection with a kickback scheme related to the 2011 South Carolina State University homecoming concert, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 4.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, N.J., man was arrested at his home by federal law enforcement officers this morning on charges that he allegedly ran a real estate investment scheme that bilked victims out of $4 million, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By Interior Newswire | May 13, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - In response to a disturbing spike in the poaching of old-growth redwood burls, the Center for Biological Diversity, Redwood Parks Association and Save the Redwoods League are offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to prosecution of poachers. Redwood burls are large natural protrusions...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Tuesday, May 13, 2014. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. CINCINNATI -James O. Napier, 40, of Cincinnati was sentenced to serve 240 years (2,880 months) in prison for producing child pornography involving an 11-month old...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2014
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - On Monday, May 12, 2014, Senior U.S. District Judge Owen M. Panner sentenced Christopher Darrell Joseph Sage, 49, of Grants Pass, Oregon, to 20 years in federal prison, after he previously pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. Sage will be on supervised release for five years after he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - A couple from Dallas, Erin Patton and Keith Williams, aka “Chucky Blood," both 24, have pleaded guilty to their respective roles in sex trafficking a child, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Richard R. Baker (47, Winter Park) today pleaded guilty to tax evasion. Baker faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison, and a $250,000 fine. His sentencing hearing has not yet been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2014
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Camden County, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and for illegally possessing a firearm.
