News from November 2014
By DOE Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today applauded the Department of Energy’s authorization for Alaska’s proposed liquefied natural gas project (LNG) to export to countries with free trade agreements (FTA) with the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Joseph Reno Stensgar, 36, of Plummer, Idaho, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for theft from the Stubby Lake Smoke Shop. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Stensgar to serve three years of supervised release and pay $20,348.44 in restitution to the store and the victim. Stensgar was indicted by a federal grand jury in Coeur d'Alene on May 20, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: COLUMBUS - U.S. Attorney Carter Stewart announced today that the Southern District of Ohio collected more than $187 million in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2014, which ended on September 30. The Southern District of Ohio earned the 7th greatest amount of collections of the 93 U.S. Attorney’s Offices nationwide. Of the $187 million, approximately$181.3 million was collected in criminal actions and approximately $5.9 million was collected in civil actions.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), today sent a letter to Howard Shelanski, Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in support of a ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that Andre Deon Todd of Mobile was sentenced following an August 2014 guilty plea to a charge of being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm. Todd was previously convicted in Mobile County of Discharging ...
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. U.S. Attorney Deirdre M. Daly today announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut collected $112,723,252.62 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2014. Of...
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, Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and...
By Commerce 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...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Emmanual Hidalgo, and Edwin Menjivar, have been sentenced for their participation in violent crimes that they committed as members of the street gang known as Mara Salvatrucha 13, or MS-13.
By State Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on President Obama’s announcement that he will travel to India in January...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A former mechanic from Lake Charles, Louisiana, Nicholas W. Schofield, 26, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 24 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in July 2014 to one count of attempted transfer of obscene material to a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Two former California National Guard members recently pleaded guilty to charges of wire fraud stemming from a fraud scheme involving recruiting bonuses United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Brian Kaps, 40, of Chico, pleaded guilty today to one count of wire fraud. Sarah Nattress, 27, of Paradise, pleaded guilty on Oct. 23, 2014, to one count of wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: Mazen Khdeer was sentenced to nearly five years in prison for his role in a series of criminal schemes that money laundering, identity theft, alien harboring and arson, centered around seven IHOP restaurants in northwest Ohio and Indiana, law enforcement officials announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that BRENDAN JOHNSTON, an administrator of Blackshades who helped market and sell malicious software, or malware, including the Blackshades’ Remote Access Tool (“RAT"), pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: In Austin today, 52-year-old former Jarrell (TX) Police Chief Andres Tomas Gutierrez was sentenced to 54 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for a wire fraud/theft of honest services scheme announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman; Homeland Security Investigations...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Jennifer Lillian Balfe, 19, of Meridian, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to 27 months in prison for bank robbery, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Balfe was indicted by a federal grand jury in Coeur d'Alene on May 20, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Stanley L. Cohen, an attorney with offices on Avenue D, New York City and Jeffersonville, New York, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Norman A. Mordue in United States District Court in Syracuse, according to United States Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - LaTonya Evans, a former United Stated Postal Service employee, has been sentenced to federal prison for participating in a conspiracy that culminated in the robbery and shooting of a postal truck driver on Dec. 20, 2013, in Conley, Ga.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today issued the following statement regarding EPA’s decision to delay acting on the 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard rule until 2015...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2014
News Release: The United States has intervened in a whistleblower lawsuit against Donald C. Proctor, Jr., M.D., an otolaryngologist practicing in Vero Beach, Florida, and Grove Place Surgery Center, LLC, an ambulatory surgical center managed by Dr. Proctor, that is located in Vero Beach, Florida.
