News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Bluefield, W.Va. - A 19-year-old Mercer County man faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty today to possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced. Joshua Dwayne Poff, of Bluefield, West Virginia, entered a guilty plea before Senior United States District Court Judge David A. Faber.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: ALLEN, Texas - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Texas will provide a free presentation to senior citizens on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014, at the Allen Public Library, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday has sentenced Donald Edwin Gallagher, Jr. (52, St. Petersburg) to 21 years in federal prison for production, distribution, and possession of child pornography. The court also ordered Gallagher to forfeit computers and electronic media that he had used to commit the offenses, and to pay restitution to the victims of his offenses. He was found guilty by a federal jury on March 13, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. Yellowstone National Park. P.O. Box 168. Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190. Oct. 27, 2014 14-081. Al Nash. (307) 344-2015. YELL_Public_Affairs@nps.gov. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK NEWS RELEASE. Roads To Old Faithful, Canyon Close For The Season Next...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., announced today that Jerome C. Crosby, 58 of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute cocaine, was sentenced to 77 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara. The defendant will also forfeit $58, 328 in United States currency, proceeds of the narcotics trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Kadiatu Sahid Kamara, age 50, of Gaithersburg, Maryland today to three years in prison followed by threeyears of supervised release for mail fraud and aggravated identity theft, arising from a two year scheme in which she wrote herself approximately 118 checks from her employers’ bank account. Judge Hazel also entered orders that Kamara pay $431,542 in restitution and forfeiture.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations after attending the ministerial meeting in Sydney, Australia, which ended Monday. During his stay, Ranking Member Levin attended briefings on key issue areas and met with U.S. negotiators, TPP trade officials and stakeholders...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Pair sentenced for their roles in murdering a fellow inmate.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Hugo Adalberto Adrian Ramirez (42, Ontario, California), Edgar Hurtado-Ramirez (45, Ontario, California), and Luis Fernando Mancillas Medina (49, Los Angeles, California) with conspiracy to distribute...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 26, 2014
News Release: As of 4 pm on Oct. 24, ignitions were complete on the Mosquito Prescribed Burn in the Mineral King area of Sequoia National Park. The final acreage included in the burn totaled 1,485 acres.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Chief U.S. District Judge Anne C. Conway today sentenced Linda Deavers (61, Indiana) to six years and six months in federal prison for wire fraud and money laundering. The Court also ordered Deavers to serve a three-year term of supervised release, and to pay more than $3.5 million in restitution. A federal jury found her guilty on July 11, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2014
News Release: In the latest development following the Supreme Court’s decision earlier this month to decline to hear any pending cases regarding same-sex marriage, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Saturday that the federal government will now recognize same-sex married couples in six new states: Alaska, Arizona, ...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 On Oct. 27, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas will travel to Orlando, Fla. While in Florida, Deputy Secretary Mayorkas will attend the International Association of Chiefs of Police Annual Conference and meet with state and local law enforcement partners.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, Oct. 24, 2014 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the selection of 43 organizations in 27 states for grants and loans to help create jobs and boost economic development activity in rural areas. The announcement culminates a week in which the department has been highlighting products that are Made In Rural America.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: The former mayor of the municipality of Río Grande, Puerto Rico, pleaded guilty today to soliciting and receiving approximately $39,000 in cash bribes from a contractor who sought to be awarded three construction inspection contracts with the municipality of Río Grande.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Today, the Justice Department announced that the Grand Jury for the Middle District of Georgia charged Miguel Angel Reyes and Gloria Gallego with conspiring with former Lowndes County Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Stacks to use Stacks’ law enforcement authority to violate Hispanic motorists’ civil rights, as well as with actually carrying out the scheme. The indictment was unsealed for Reyes yesterday and for Gallego today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Alexander Beltran Herrera, 38, a commander of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) terrorist organization, was sentenced today to 27 years in prison on federal hostage-taking charges stemming from the 2003 capture of three U.S. citizens in Colombia. All told, members of the FARC held the Americans hostage for 1,967 days.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that First RF Corporation (First RF), an antenna and radio system company located in Boulder, Colorado, has agreed to pay $10 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting inflated claims for electronic warfare antennas sold to the U.S. Army to combat Improvised Explosive Devices.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it reached an agreement with Serendipity Hearing Inc., doing business as Sonus Hearing Care (Sonus), a hearing services provider headquartered in the Los Angeles, California, metropolitan area. The agreement resolves a claim, filed with the Office of Special ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: The United States filed a civil complaint for injunctive relief in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota against 2035 Inc. and its president, Dr. Robert L. Lytle, the Department of Justice announced today. Lytle, who does business as 2035 Private Membership Association and QLasers ...
