News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, May 22, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Abra K. Albrecht, 31, of Carrollton, Illinois, was charged on May 21, 2014, for theft of United States Mail by a postal employee in an Indictment returned by a Federal Grand Jury sitting...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, 45-year-old Malcolm David Brooks was sentenced to 92 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for escaping from a half-way house and robbing a San Antonio bank in 2012 announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, United States Marshal Robert Almonte and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Rosemarie Peltier, age 43, was arrested today and charged with misappropriation of postal funds, embezzlement of government property, and false entries and reports of monies and securities. Peltier appeared in District Court before District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez and was released from custody after posting a $10,000 unsecured bond.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jesus Agustin Gastelum-Carrasco, 29, a Mexican national from Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, who is illegally in the United States, was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., for his marijuana trafficking conviction. Gastelum-Carrasco was sentenced to five years in federal prison. He will be deported after he completes his term of incarceration.
By State Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued this statement regarding the United States - Spain Tax Treaty.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: On May 22, 2014, Krystal Lynn Burke, 47, of Lincoln, was sentenced to 42 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. On Jan. 3, 2013, a search warrant was served at Burke’s Lincoln residence. During the search, officers found 107 grams of methamphetamine which tested...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Defendant Faces Imprisonment term of 10 years to Life.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that MARVIN ANTHONY BLANGO, 20, of Vanceboro, CLIFFORD EARL HORTON, III, 20, of Bayboro, ANTONIO RAY STEVENS, 24, of New Bern, DEMARCUS DEON DRIGGERS, 21, of Raleigh and DIQUAN ANTOINE BELL, 20, of Bayboro were each sentenced resulting from...
By Interior Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: BODY RECOVERED AT LAKE MEAD. BOULDER CITY, Nev. - At 9:50 a.m., park rangers located a body south of Castle Reef at Lake Mead that is presumed to be the 45-year-old Henderson, Nevada, man who went missing May 10. At 4:44 p.m. May 10, the Lake Mead National Recreation Area Interagency Communication Center...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: The former Director of the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department was sentenced to eight months in a halfway house after having pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the case of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, announced U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A former Chicago tax preparer was sentenced today to nearly four years in federal prison for filing nearly 3,200 false federal income tax returns that claimed refunds totaling more than $3.37 million for clients. The defendant, VERLEAN HOLLINS, was sentenced to 46 months in prison and fined nearly $800,000 after pleading guilty in January to two counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false federal income tax returns.
By USDA Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) researchers have conducted a series of studies showing that the pig is instrumental as a model for human obesity-related research. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) microbiologist Gloria Solano-Aguilar has found that using swine as a biomedical research model was useful for studying metabolic effects induced by a high-fat diet.
By Commerce Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: The Honorable Janet Yellen Chairman Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Carlos Contreras, 33, and his wife Ana Rosa Contreras, 31, have entered guilty pleas in relation to a massive drug trafficking and money laundering case involving members of the Texas Mexican Mafia prison gang, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOE Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today commended the efforts of Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming) and Rep. Cory Gardner (R-Colorado) to advance legislation that would seek to avoid listing the sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) through state and local led efforts.
By Commerce Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., May 22, 2014 - The House of Representatives today approved the National Defense Authorization Act of 2015, which included a bipartisan provision sponsoredby Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) to establish a Manhattan Project National Historical Park. The Manhattan...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Rafael A. Medina, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Postal Service, Office of Inspector General, Northeast Area Field Office, announced the arrest of a United States Postal Service supervisor for possessing...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, May 22, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAWAWN RICARDO HALE, 31, of Roanoke, Va., was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall...
By State Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) issued the following statement on the military coup in Thailand. Senator Cardin is Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Senator Menendez is Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Leahy is Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related programs.
