News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: Bluefield, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that two drug dealers appeared in federal court in Bluefield, West Virginia. Shawn Owen Gillespie II, 25, of Shady Spring, West Virginia was sentenced to 18 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute heroin. Gillespie pled...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today highlighted the need to improve access to Alaska’s natural resources in order to ensure that the trans-Alaska oil pipeline system - infrastructure critical to the energy security of the nation - remains in operation far into the future.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the leaders of the U.S. Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committees announced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to help advance America’s trade priorities and better facilitate U.S. trade with developing countries.
By State Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement regarding Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom HaShoah.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Daleo G. Powell, 32, of Harrisburg, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg. The indictment charges Powell with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, and possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Darron Webb, 29, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced today, for possession with intent to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Bryan Cross, 31, of Beckley, West Virginia, plead guilty yesterday in federal court in Beckley to distributing cocaine. Cross admitted that on Sept. 23, 2014, he sold cocaine to a person who was cooperating with law enforcement authorities. The drug deal took place on Canterbury Drive in Beckley, West Virginia.
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 Commerce Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the leaders of the U.S. Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committees announced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to help advance America’s trade priorities and better facilitate U.S. trade with developing countries.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: The road to Two Medicine and a loop of the Two Medicine Campground are anticipated to open by mid-day on Saturday, April 18. Services will be limited. Two Medicine is located on the east side of the park, approximately 13 miles from the community of East Glacier.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: The Junior Ranger program at Gettysburg NMP is a family and group activity recommended for children aged 6 to 13. The park provides an activity booklet and participants are invited to spend two to four hours exploring the park’s Museum and Visitor Center, the Soldiers’ National Cemetery, the David Wills House, and other sites on the battlefield and in the town of Gettysburg.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine, introduced legislation for a six-year reauthorization of Trade Adjustment Assistance, a critical job training and worker assistance program that strengthens the American workforce and helps make certain the United States can continue to compete successfully in the global economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ALVARO ALVARADO, 27, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: Continued mild weather has aided the park’s spring road opening crew in providing access further into the park for park visitors. The park road will open for travel to Mile 30, the Teklanika Rest Area, by 10:00 am on Saturday, April 18, weathr permitting.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Moshood Balogun and Ayodeji Fashola, both 60, have been ordered to federal prison following their convictions in a mail and wire fraud conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The Nigerian immigrants each pleaded guilty in June 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Darius Jondi Edwards (35, Clearwater) with manufacturing and passing counterfeit currency. His co-defendant, Timothy Deante Burroughs (28, Jacksonville), is charged with passing counterfeit...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City man pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges of taking part in five bank robberies in Kansas and Missouri, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Jermaine Winters, 39, of Coleman, Florida, and Rosetta Presley, 23, of Chipley, Florida, pled guilty today to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and identity theft in connection with the electronic filing of false federal income tax returns. The pleas were announced today by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO ─ The Department Manager of Applications at PACE was arrested yesterday on a federal complaint for allegedly accepting over $280,000 in kickbacks and gratuities in exchange for the influence he exerted in placing certain information technology (“IT") contractors at PACE and in their employment at PACE.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp has ordered Donatus E. Asumu (52, Longwood) to pay $199,825 in restitution to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for wire fraud committed against the agency. The Court also ordered him to forfeit a Nissan automobile, a traceable...
