News from September 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Northern Cambria, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to five years probation, the first 12 months of which must be served by conditions of home confinement, and 500 hours of community service on his conviction of conspiracy to commit money laundering, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James J. Hunt, the Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), Thomas O’Donnell, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the United...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Saint Albans man who illegally possessed a firearm on July 2, 2014, pleaded guilty today to a federal firearms charge, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Keival Lewis Kelley, 30, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Kelley entered his guilty plea before Chief United States District Judge Robert C. Chambers in Huntington.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Mohamed Seid Ahmed Mohamed, 56, of North Chesterfield, Virginia, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and to traffic in contraband cigarettes.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: Alleged Production of Child Pornography. ALBANY, NEW YORK - A grand jury returned an indictment charging ROBERT McLAUGHLIN, age 57, of Mechanicville, New York, with two counts of production of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.1 McLAUGHLIN faces up to 30 years of...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: WILMINGTON - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today Senior United States District Judge James C. Fox sentenced LARRY DONNELL TAYLOR, 40,of Dunn, North Carolina, to 240 months in prison followed by 5 years of supervised released for conspiracy to distribute and possess...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today appointed six members and six alternates to serve on the National Peanut Board. The appointees will serve three-year terms beginning Jan. 1, 2015, and ending on Dec. 31, 2017, with the exception of an Arkansas member and an alternate member who will begin immediately and end on Dec. 31, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON-Attorney General Eric Holder released the following statement Wednesday on the resignation of U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan for the Western District of Washington.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia, Aug. 30, 2014-See an exhibit of the winning entries to the 2014 Hidden History Photo Contest at Tamarack this September. With twenty-one heritage-based images on display this year, this annual contest provides an opportunity for West Virginia amateur adult and youth photographers...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Ivory Hall, 32, of Detroit, Michigan, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute oxycodone and heroin, United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced. From March 2012 through September 2012, Hall, sometimes known as “Chris Nelson," distributed heroin in and around...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: A former Grosse Pointe attorney was sentenced to prison for bank fraud and money laundering, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Project LIBERTY, the nation’s first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant to use corn waste as a feedstock, announced the start of production today. Once operating at full, commercial-scale, the biorefinery in Emmetsburg, Iowa will produce 25 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year - enough to avoid approximately 210,000 tons of CO2 emissions annually.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Denzel Watson of Brooklyn, New York was sentenced today for aiding and abetting the making of false statements in the attempted acquisition of a firearm. Chief United States District Judge Christina Reiss, sitting in Burlington, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO ― A former suburban chiropractor and his wife, who was a fitness instructor and personal trainer, were sentenced to federal prison terms for engaging in a $1 million health insurance fraud scheme that continued for a year after they were indicted in 2011. WENDY CARR, 43, was sentenced today to 28 months in prison, a week after her husband, ANDREW CARR, 45, both of Lake in the Hills, was sentenced to eight years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: Cleveland-based Kelly Plating Company pleaded guilty to making illegal discharges with high concentrations of metals such as chrome and zinc into the sewer system, which in turn, after treatment, discharges to Lake Erie, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced Jermaine Whindleton, a/k/a “Sin," 28, formerly of Worcester, Massachusetts, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Nancy Torresen to 15 years in prison and five years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Whindleton was convicted on April 9, 2014 following a two-day jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Abel Michael Quiroz, 27, a former U.S. Border Patrol Agent who resides in Las Cruces, N.M., pleaded guilty today to possession of a matter containing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Quiroz will be sentenced to 30 months in prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court. Quiroz also will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: A man who distributed and possessed child pornography was sentenced Sept. 2, 2014, to over 21 years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - This month, the Uncompahgre Field Office biological resources staff will begin performing Land Health Assessments on 12 allotments, which include 112,575 acres to determine which areas meet the Bureau of Land Management’s Rangeland Health Standards.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced Jermaine.
