News published on Federal Newswire in November 2014

News from November 2014


News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that Anthony Moore, also known as “Freak," 33, of New Haven, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 63 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing crack and powder cocaine.


Heroin Trafficker Faces Statutory Penalties Of Up To 60 Years In Federal Prison; Forfeit Heroin Sales Proceeds Of $382,227 In Cash, $39,000 Rolex Watch

News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Neftali Reyes, a/k/a Popi, 32, of Providence, faces statutory penalties of up to 60 years in federal prison after pleading guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence today to one count of conspiracy to distribute heroin and two counts of distribution of heroin. In addition, Reyes...


News Release: Last month, MG2 Tribal Energy won a competitive bid to supply the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) with 140 megawatts (MW) of wind energy. The groundbreaking deal marks the largest wind energy purchase from a single source in federal contracting history. And it will supply GSA with all the...


News Release: COVINGTON, KY - A Burlington man was sentenced to 128 months in federal prison today for manufacturing methamphetamine and possession of a short-barreled shotgun in furtherance of drug trafficking.


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement on consideration of the Klamath Basin Water Recovery and Economic Restoration Act (S. 2379) by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee:


News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - ROBERT V. MCLAUGHLIN, age 57, of Mechanicville, New York, pled guilty today in Albany before United States District Judge Mae A. D’Agostino to two counts of production of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Andrew W. Vale, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.


News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Neftali Reyes, a/k/a Popi, 32, of Providence, faces statutory penalties of up to 60 years in federal prison after pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence today to one count of conspiracy to distribute heroin and two counts of distribution of heroin. In addition, Reyes has...


News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Delvin Barnes, 37, of Charles City, Virginia, was charged today by indictment with kidnapping, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.


News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JORGE GUTIERREZ-SANCHEZ, a/k/a Frank Farias, a/k/a Eusebio Ramirez, Jr., a/k/a Erick S. Couvertier-Rivera, age 29, a Mexican citizen, was sentenced today for falsely representing two different social security numbers in order to obtain training for employment.


News Release: PITTSBURGH - Dustin Petry, an Allegheny County resident, was sentenced to 72 months in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin and for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.


United States Announces Court Approval Of Historic $5.15 Billion Environmental And Tort Settlement With Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

News Release: District Court Approves Settlement Providing More Than $4.4 Billion For Environmental Clean-Up And Claims.


News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Terry Scott Hilliard II (29, Ocala) has pleaded guilty to receipt and distribution of child pornography. He faces a minimum mandatory sentence of 5 years, up to a maximum sentence of 20 years, in federal prison. A sentencing hearing has not yet been set.


Harkin Statement on Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Nominees

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered the following statement at the HELP Committee hearing on two Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) nominees. The EEOC nominees include P. David Lopez, nominated to serve as General Counsel, and Charlotte Burrows, nominated to serve as a Member of the EEOC.


Many Resident Pleads Guilty to Possession  with Intent to Distribute Cocaine Base

News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Many resident pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine in Sabine Parish.


News Release: WASHINGTON - Lenard Fleming, 34, a former corrections officer who worked for the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), pled guilty today to a bribery charge for accepting money to smuggle contraband into the District of Columbia’s Correctional Treatment Facility.


News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement in response to recent actions the Administration has taken to move forward two trade agreements at the WTO...


News Release: TULSA, Okla. - A Tulsa man pleaded guilty today before United States District Court Judge Claire V. Eagan to aiming the beam of a laser pointer in the flight path of a Tulsa Police Department helicopter, announced Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.


New Haven Drug Trafficker Sentenced To 10 Years In Federal Prison

News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROMELL BROWN, 36, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Warren W. Eginton...


New Haven Drug Dealer Sentenced To More Than 5 Years In Federal Prison

News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ANTHONY MOORE, also known as “Freak," 33, of New Haven, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District...


News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Rebecca Lynn Biglow, age 42, of Gaithersburg, Maryland pleaded guilty today to mail fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with a fraud scheme to obtain $71,022 in unemployment insurance benefits. Biglow also pleaded guilty to violating terms of her supervised release imposed after she had served time in prison for a previous federal conviction for bank fraud.