News published on Federal Newswire in September 2014

News from September 2014


Former Fairfield Community High School Cross Country Team Coach Pleads Guilty To Sex Offenses Involving Minors

News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Sept. 17, 2014, Timothy C. Going, 43, formerly of Fairfield, IL...


News Release: In El Paso, a federal jury convicted 55-year-old Thomas Gregory Harris of Friendswood, TX, former Sr. Vice President for Luster National Inc., yesterday afternoon of 16 counts of wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud the Small Business Administration (SBA) announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist of the FBI’s El Paso Division.


News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Brant Nelson, 49, of Saxtons River, Vermont, was sentenced on Sept. 15, 2014, in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont, to serve 360-months (30 years) imprisonment and a lifetime period of supervised release...


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New Haven Man Sentenced To 37 Months In Federal Prison For Illegally Possessing Loaded Firearm

News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TYISHOUN MATHENEY, 20, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Warren W.


News Release: Question whether administration has complied with the law in protecting Americans’ personal information


Second Colombian National Pleads Guilty To Kidnapping And Murder 0f DEA Agent Terry Watson

News Release: WASHINGTON - A second Colombian man extradited to the Eastern District of Virginia pleaded guilty today for his involvement in the kidnapping and murder of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent James Terry Watson in Bogotà, Colombia, on June 20, 2013.


News Release: WASHINGTON - JC Stamps, a former union official, was sentenced today to nine months of confinement in a community correctional facility for embezzling more than $190,000 from two labor organizations he founded and an employee benefits fund.


Access to Logan Pass Changes This Weekend

News Release: The last day to access Logan Pass by vehicle from the east side of Glacier National Park will be Sunday, Sept. 21, allowing accelerated fall season rehabilitation on the Going-to-the-Sun Road. Vehicle traffic will be restricted on the east side near the St. Mary Campground beginning Monday, September 22. Vehicle access to Logan Pass will be available from the west side of the park through Sunday, Oct. 19, weather permitting.


News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles Jr. sentenced Greyling Chase, age 53, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 105 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to commit an armed robbery of a drug dealer.


News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A soldier at Ft. Riley was sentenced Wednesday for making false material statements to the Social Security Administration, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.


News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Michael Ghabrial, 60, of Martinsville, New Jersey was sentenced today to two years in prison for agreeing to accept bribes as an officer of a bank. Ghabrial pleaded guilty on Oct. 31, 2013 to one count of bank bribery.


Tax Scheme Nets 32 Month Prison Sentence For Philadelphia Man

News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Steven Young, 32, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today to 32 months in prison for his role in a tax fraud conspiracy. Young pleaded guilty on May 13, 2014 to one count of conspiracy and six counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of fraudulent federal income tax returns.


News Release: ROCKFORD - A former McHenry County sheriff’s deputy who was that department’s representative on the state’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force was sentenced today to 50 years in federal prison for child sexual abuse and exploitation. The defendant, GREGORY M. PYLE, 39, of Crest Hills, Ill....


Senate, House Republican Leaders Demand Immediate Details on HealthCare.Gov Security Problems

News Release: Dear Administrator Tavenner: . We write to express our concerns and request further information about the security of the HealthCare.gov website. The report released yesterday by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on HealthCare.gov indicates that mismanagement of the website’s development by...


Special T&I Panel Releases Report on Public-Private Partnerships

News Release: The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Panel on Public-Private Partnerships (P3 Panel) today released its final report and recommendations on how to balance the needs of the public and private sector when undertaking P3s to finance the Nation’s infrastructure. The Panel was tasked by Full...


Harkin, Alexander Praise HELP Committee Passage of Education Research Bill

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Ranking Member Lamar Alexander (R-TN) praised the HELP Committee’s passage of the Strengthening Education through Research Act, a bill that would reauthorize the Education...


News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Bryant Andrew Delaremore, a career criminal who committed gun offenses for decades, was sentenced to 234 months in prison following his Feb. 2, 2012, guilty plea to possession of a firearm after having previously been convicted of three violent felonies. The sentence also included a term of supervised release of five years.


News Release: Human Trafficking Rescue Project. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Texas man pleaded guilty in federal court today to traveling to Missouri to engage in sex with two minor sisters whose “father" (actually an undercover police...


14 El Paso Area Barrio Azteca Members And Associates Face Federal Racketerring Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) Conspiracy Charge

News Release: RICO Charge Alleges Murder, Extortion, Robbery, Assault, Drug Distribution, and Money Laundering.