News from November 2014
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding today's vote in the U.S. Senate to authorize building the Keystone XL pipeline. S. 2280 failed in the Senate today 59 - 41.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a former purchasing agent for a Lake Charles aviation company was sentenced to 36 months in prison for his role in stealing more than $900,000 worth of aircraft parts in return for cash.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: Earlier today, the leader of a Long Island chapter of the Ñetas street gang, Jason Cabral, also known as “J-Live," was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 37 years to be followed by five years of supervised release as a result of his guilty plea to the 2004 murders of Anthony Marcano and Fabian Mestres. The sentence was imposed in federal court in Central Islip, New York, by United States Senior District Judge Joanna Seybert.
By State Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that the Committee will meet for a markup on Thursday, November 20 at 9:30 a.m to consider various foreign affairs measures. (This markup was originally scheduled for November 19.).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Kim Meas, 60, a native of Cambodia, pleaded guilty to charges stemming from schemes to defraud the United States. Meas was the managing director of LS Services Corporation (“LS"), an employee leasing company in South Philadelphia. He pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Richard Coleman, age 49, of Dundalk, Maryland, today to 14 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to commit robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 32-year-old Flint, Texas woman has been sentenced to federal prison for violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Cambridge man pleaded guilty yesterday to identity fraud related to the theft and sale of a book stolen from Boston’s historic Old South Church.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), and Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA) today released a report they requested from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) examining the use of “official time" for union business at government agencies.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Nov. 12, 2014, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 18 defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The Drug Enforcement Administration is in charge of the investigation, with the collaboration of the Puerto Rico Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Ozark, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for using two minors to produce child pornography. Dennis Lee Whitaker, 54, of Ozark, was sentenced by U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today that U.S. District Court Judge Robert Holmes Bell imposed sentences of over 20 years for the final two defendants in the multi-year joint federal and state investigation and prosecution of 31 Holland Latin Kings (HLK) gang members.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Acting, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Ebony Howard, 29, of Bronx, New York, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Bangor by Chief Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 22 months in prison and three years of supervised release for possession with the intent to distribute oxycodone. Howard pleaded guilty on June 4, 2014.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: U.S. Ambassador to Colombia Kevin Whitaker returned six pre-Columbian artifacts to the government of Colombia Nov. 12 following a joint law enforcement investigation between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: SPOKANE - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced today that his office collected $2,350,216.67 in civil and criminal actions in the Fiscal Year ending Sept. 30, 2014. Of this amount, Mr. Ormsby’s office collected $1,546,303.16 in criminal cases and $803,913.51 in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Irvington, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for using stolen identities to file false tax returns and obtain hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax refund checks, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: A Concord Township man pleaded guilty today to defrauding Taupa Lithuanian Credit Union out of $2.3 million, law enforcement officials said.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 I am pleased to announce that for the second year in a row, our audit firm KPMG, working in conjunction with our Office of Inspector General, has issued the Department of Homeland Security an unqualified audit opinion -- essentially a reasonable ...
