News from November 2014

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte sentenced Gregory King, age 28, of Washington, D.C. today to 10 years in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for traveling across state lines to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a 14 year old female and for using a computer...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Gordon Link, 78, of Greece, NY, who was convicted of attempted possession of child pornography, was sentenced to 24 months in prison and 10 years supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former Newark City Hall employee today admitted producing fraudulent New Jersey birth certificates, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger, the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives today announced the arrest and federal indictment of 11 individuals charged with organizing and maintaining two street gangs operating throughout Hennepin County.[1]...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the filing of federal charges against individuals in eight separate cases. These individuals have been charged with stealing $767,949 in federal benefits to which they were not entitled. The penalty for stealing federal benefits or...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: Worked as ‘Casher’ for Organization that Allegedly Capitalized on.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Kenneth Charles Diggins, age 38, of Bel Air, Maryland today to 10 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute heroin, and distribution of heroin, the use of which resulted in death.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Michael A. Gantz, age 43, of Marietta, Pennsylvania, was charged in a criminal Information with theft concerning programs receiving federal funds. If convicted of the offense, Gantz faces up to ten years’...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man convicted of Sexual Abuse of a Minor was sentenced on Nov. 17, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced today the unsealing of an indictment of seven Luzerne County residents on charges relating to the unlawful distribution of bath salts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: - Agreed to restitution in the amount of $83,191 to the Louisville Parish.

By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: Zion Fire Management is planning to burn debris piles in the Lava Point vicinity beginning Monday, Nov. 24, if weather conditions allow. The burning may continue throughout the week. If conditions are not favorable, the pile burning will be postponed.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Vernon Robert Schmidt, Jr., a/k/a Sonny Bob Schmidt, age 29, of Mission, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on Nov. 17, 2014, and pled guilty to Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: South Bend, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: Dear Mr. President: We write regarding the recent series of deplorable terrorist attacks against innocent Israelis. We are profoundly concerned that the cycle of violent behavior threatens to spiral even further out of control. The situation clearly demands leadership, and we implore you to take decisive...

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 Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A Warren County, Kentucky woman was convicted of maliciously damaging and destroying, and attempting to damage and destroy, by means of fire, the Dollar General Store, and the personal property, located in Hart County, Kentucky, by a federal jury in Bowling Green today following ...

By Commerce Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Last night, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., sent letters calling on Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner and ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber to testify on Tuesday, December 9th before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on repeated transparency failures and outright deceptions surrounding ObamaCare.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) issued the following statement in response to the EPA’s announcement today that it would not issue a rule setting Renewable Fuel Standard targets for 2014...