News from November 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that a federal grand jury has returned seven (7) indictments arising from an investigation into the transportation of illegal aliens.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Grace Roman Childers, 60, of Roswell, N.M., was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 70 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for her methamphetamine trafficking conviction. Childers was also ordered to forfeit $7,420.00. The sentence...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office confirms the committee’s concerns that the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration do not have a clear, timely, and efficient review process for the export of nuclear technology, resulting...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Abdulmalik Abdulla, age 37, and Ahmed Mohssen, age 54, both of Baltimore, today each to four years in prison, followed by one year of supervised release, for food stamp fraud and wire fraud in connection with a scheme to illegally...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Alaska is providing guidance establishing clear and consistent standards for rehabilitating placer-mined streams on public lands managed by the BLM.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -The U.S. House of Representatives today approved H.R. 5682, a bill authored by Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), which would approve the application for the Keystone XL pipeline and allow construction of the job-creating project to finally proceed after years of the president’s delays. Today...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: A criminal information was filed charging an Akron physician with illegally distributing tens of thousands of doses of prescription painkillers, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, Nov. 14, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that Demarcus O. Johnson, 30, of Alton, Illinois, was sentenced on Friday, November...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - On Wednesday, Nov. 12, a federal grand jury returned an eight-count indictment charging LARRY DALE MORGAN of Hutto, Texas, with wire fraud in connection with the trade of an airplane and fraud and false statements involving aircraft parts, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Monique Christine Martinez, 33, of Nampa, Idaho, was indicted on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014, by the federal grand jury on one count of using interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Martinez is in custody of the U.S. Marshals Service, after having been arrested on a warrant on Oct. 22, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: The Tule Lake Unit is receiving a facelift! In its continued effort to protect and preserve the historic landscape that once made up the Tule Lake Segregation Center in Newell, CA, the National Park Service is replacing some non-historic chain link security fencing that has deteriorated to the point...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: A federal indictment was unsealed today charging Arturas Samoilovas, age 35, of Stow, Ohio, with one count of transmitting and attempting to transmit computer codes, programs or commands, intending to cause damage to a protected computer, 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 USDA Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
Release: Washington, DC, Nov. 14, 2014 - Complementary programs that extend the reach of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) summer meal programs could help reduce childhood food insecurity during the summer, according to three studies released today by USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS). The...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 38-year-old Pittston man pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik to conspiring with others to distribute heroin in the Luzerne County area during a four-year time period.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Ray H. Adams and Samuel J. Crump have been sentenced to federal prison for possessing and conspiring to possess the biological toxin ricin for use as a weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Michele Sergeant, 31, of Queens, NY, who was convicted of possession of counterfeit bank notes, was sentenced to 18 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci. The defendant was also ordered to pay $44,700 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: South Bend, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Washington, Pa., resident has been sentenced in federal court to 144 months (12 years) imprisonment followed by five years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal firearms and narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JOHNNIE SANTANGELO, III, age 29, of Tangipahoa Parish, and OBER FARFAN BRAVO, age 34, an undocumented alien living in Tangipahoa Parish, were charged yesterday in a one-count bill of information for unlawfully employing aliens.
