News from November 2014
By DOE Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it would not finalize volume obligations for the federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) for calendar year 2014 in 2014:
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - The United States Attorney’s Office in Boston reached a civil settlement today with PharmaHealth Specialty Pharmacy in Fairhaven, Mass., in connection with allegations that the company violated federal regulations related to the sale of prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault by Strangulation and Suffocation, and Assault Resulting in Substantial Bodily Injury to an Intimate Partner.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - U.S. Attorney Amanda Marshall announced today that the District of Oregon collected $11,936,070.53 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2014. Additionally, Oregon worked with other U.S. Attorneys’ offices and components of the Department of Justice to collect an additional $1,228,648.04 in cases pursued jointly with these offices.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal jury in Rochester has convicted Carl Spencer, 63, a Jamaican national, of illegal re-entry and aggravated identity theft. The convictions came after a three day jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. C U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., announced today that Christopher Ludwig, 31, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of resisting and impeding officers, was sentenced to three years probation by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal jury convicted 41-year-old U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Raymond Valas of sex trafficking of a minor announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs of the FBI’s San Antonio Division and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that JASON BRETT MERIDA, age 42, of Rattan, Oklahoma was found guilty by a federal jury on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014 of six counts of a seven-count indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: The former chief financial officer at a North Canton company was sentenced to more than two years in prison for violating campaign finance laws and conspiring to obstruct justice, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, Nov. 21, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSEPH LUCA, 68, of Meriden, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) issued the following statement today after being nominated by the House Democratic Caucus to return as Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security for the 114th Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT/LAFAYETTE/ALEXANDRIA/LAKE CHARLES/MONROE, La.: United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Louisiana collected $10,732,350 through civil, criminal, and asset forfeiture actions in Fiscal Year (FY) 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A total of 10 Laredoans have entered guilty pleas related to a cocaine, crack and marijuana distribution conspiracy, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan today sentenced Daniel Robert Gardner (21, Jacksonville) to 10 years in federal prison for receiving child pornography over the Internet. The Court also ordered him to serve a 10-year term of supervision and to register as a sex offender upon his release from prison. Gardner pleaded guilty on July 28, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: EL DORADO, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge David Downing and Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Ronald Brown, age 43, of Harrell, was sentenced to 130 months imprisonment for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine; ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Matthew P. Carlson, 31, of Orofino, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to 36 months in prison, followed by ten years supervised release for possession of sexually explicit images of minors, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Carlson pleaded guilty to the charge on Aug. 19, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: Cheyenne - U.S. Attorney Christopher A. “Kip" Crofts announced today that the District of Wyoming US Attorney’s Office collected $7,059,989 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2014. Of this amount, $2,974,012 was collected in criminal actions and $4,085,977 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - JoAnn Jackson, 63, of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday to two counts of wire fraud for misappropriating more than $800,000 from a client’s account, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Jackson, an investment advisor, was indicted by a federal grand Jury in Coeur d'Alene on Aug. 19, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A California man was sentenced today for remotely hacking into the computerized cash registers of a number of Subway restaurants and fraudulently obtaining more than $40,000 in gift cards.
