News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a New Iberia man pleaded guilty to videoing boys engaging in sexual activity over the internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A Bedford County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on a charge of unlawful possession of firearms by a convicted felon, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: Samuel I. Miller, 27, of Denver, Colorado, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on April 13, 2015, for conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, and marijuana. Miller was arrested in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He received 120 months imprisonment, to be followed by...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) today introduced bipartisan, bicameral Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) legislation that establishes concrete rules for international trade negotiations...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement after the Senate confirmed Russell Deyo to be Under Secretary for Management at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The Senate confirmed Mr. Deyo by a vote of 95 to 2.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Johnson Controls Battery Group Inc.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations held a hearing today to examine the findings of the 2014 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS), which ranks federal employee satisfaction among government agencies. The report identifies the U.S. Department of...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-Juan Pablo Charre, 35, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge Gregory K. Frizzell on Wednesday to serve 84 months in federal prison for possessing over 50 grams of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, announced United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Chelmsford man was charged yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston for initiating a murder-for-hire plot.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal judge today sentenced a former Birmingham tax-return preparer to 12 months in prison and ordered her to repay $44,080 to the Internal Revenue Service for filing false returns, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and IRS, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Veronica Hyman-Pillot.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: In several town halls I’ve recently held at home in Oregon, the number one issue that came up was secrecy. That’s why I felt it was important to start the conversation on this issue as soon as possible. If you believe in trade and you want more of it, it doesn’t make sense to have all this secrecy that...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: On April 16, 2015, Troy Edwards, a twenty-six year old East St. Louis, Illinois, man, pled guilty in federal district court, in East St. Louis, to one count of Distribution of Cocaine, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Edwards is...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing on Congressional trade priorities...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: Earlier today, in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, New York, Chief Judge Carol Bagley Amon sentenced defendant Brian Gill to life in prison and his brothers David Gill and Samuel McIntosh to 40 years in prison. Following a three-week trial in November 2014, the three brothers were convicted of the June...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), Reps. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Nadler (D-NY), Trent Franks (R-AZ), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Doug Collins (R-GA), Ted Deutch (D-FL), Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), and Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) introduced H.R. 1832, “The Innovation Protection ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an 11-count indictment today against Donnie Phillips, 56, of Concord; Gordon Miller, 57, of Clayton; and Phyliss Mosher, 51, of Vallejo, charging them with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and related methamphetamine trafficking charges, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: A beach hazard statement has been issued by the National Weather Service and remains in effect from Thursday morning, April 16, through Friday evening, April 17.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: Indictment Details Multiple False Statements and Schemes aimed at Hiding Millions of Dollars in Stolen Fees.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Dartmouth Selectman was convicted today of embezzling funds from his bus company, which was subsidized with taxpayer funds, to bankroll his personal farm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Christina Ann Ramirez, 26, of Houston, has appeared in court today on charges of bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
