News from November 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Robert Pitman announced today that the Western District of Texas (WDTX) collected $20,238,152 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2014. Of this amount, $8,945,457.88 was collected in criminal actions and $11,292,694.70 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Heaphy announced today that the Western District of Virginia collected $4,261,639 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2014. Of this amount, $3,289,598 was collected in criminal actions and $972,041 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Reneisha Ferguson, aka “Christine Purcell," age 25, of Brooklyn, New York, with passing counterfeit notes, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: JACQUELINE J. ARIAS, 40, a tax return preparer from Spruce Pine, Alabama, was sentenced today for her role in conspiracies to file false tax returns and commit money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr. and Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Larry J. Wszalek of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Homer man was sentenced to 38 months in prison for stealing more than $59,000 from his Claiborne Parish employer’s bank account.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging Charles James Reighard, age 67, of Burghill, Ohio, with mailing threatening communications, and threatening to damage or destroy a building by means of an explosive, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By State Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the below statement, as prepared for delivery, at today’s nomination for Mr. Antony Blinken of New York to the position of Deputy Secretary of State.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr., released the following statement after the Senate fell two votes short of ending debate on the USA FREEDOM Act of 2014. The 58-42 vote effectively cuts off any prospect of surveillance reform in the 113th Congress. The USA FREEDOM Act would have introduced sweeping reforms to various government surveillance programs, including the bulk collection of telephone metadata at the National Security Agency.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Ranking Member Lamar Alexander (R-TN) today applauded HELP Committee approval of the Adding Ebola to the FDA Priority Review Voucher Program Act.
By State Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House of Representatives passed, H.R. 5681, important legislation extending the 1958 U.S.-U.K. Mutual Defense Agreement to allow continued bilateral nuclear security cooperation. The 1958 “Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Thomas Whitlow, 53, formerly of Kansas City, Kansas, was convicted by a federal jury on Nov. 18, 2014, of Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud and Wire Fraud, after a three-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Edward Clinton Jones III, age 42, of Charleston, was sentenced to 151 months imprisonment for Use of Interstate Commerce Facilities in the Commission of Murder for Hire, 18 U.S.C. § 1958(a), and Solicitation of Murder for Hire, 18 U.S.C. § 373.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, President Obama signed into law H.R. 4994, the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 (IMPACT Act), bipartisan legislation aimed at strengthening and improving post-acute care for Medicare beneficiaries while bringing about more accountable, quality-driven...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that MELVIN JOSUE AVELAR-CASTRO (“AVELAR"), age 34, a citizen of Honduras, pled guilty today to one-count of illegal re-entry of a removed alien.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement on the October jobs report.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Richard David Smith, 46, of Niles, Michigan, was sentenced today, Nov. 18, 2014, to seven years in federal prison for Bank Robbery, U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker ordered Smith to pay $1,817 in restitution and $1,000 in fines, and Judge Jonker imposed a three-year term of supervised release that will commence once Smith is released from imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Six defendants who were convicted of federal felony offenses for their respective roles in a cocaine distribution conspiracy in North Texas have been sentenced, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Rochester, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jacob Disanto, of Brockport, NY, who was convicted of participating in a conspiracy to distribute marijuana and possessing a firearm in furtherance of the marijuana distribution conspiracy, was sentenced to five years in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States filed civil complaints in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York today against individuals and entities alleged to be running two related multimillion-dollar mail fraud schemes. The United States also filed a motion seeking a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction to immediately put a stop to the ongoing schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: In Waco today, 47-year-old James Fudge of Temple, TX, was sentenced to 108 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Special Agent in Charge Janice Ayala, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in San Antonio.
