News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Dante S. Giovannetti (50, Orlando) has pleaded guilty to wire fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing has been set for July 8, 2015. Giovannetti was indicted on Feb. 11, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. District Judge James L. Robart today approved a department-wide training program developed by the Seattle Police Department (SPD) and endorsed by the Justice Department, the Seattle City Attorney’s Office and the Federal Court Monitor Merrick Bobb, announced Principal Deputy Assistant...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Ways and Means Committee Member Danny K. Davis (D-IL) on the House floor led the Democratic opposition to H.R. 622, which would make permanent the state and local sales tax deduction, adding $42 billion in debt. His prepared remarks...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jeffrey Townsley, age 43, of Luzerne County, was sentenced yesterday in federal court by United States District Court Judge Richard P. Conaboy to 151 months’ imprisonment for bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that MISTY DAWN BURTON, age 23, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma was sentenced to 60 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release for Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of Drug Trafficking Offense, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 924(c)(1)(A) and 2.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim McDermott (D-WA) today on the House floor led the Democratic opposition to H.R. 1105, which would repeal the estate tax and provide a $269 billion tax cut to 5,500 of the wealthiest households. His prepared remarks...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: In San Antonio yesterday, local authorities apprehended 37-year-old federal escapee Brian Anthony Whitford announced Acting United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr., FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division, and United States Marshal Robert Almonte.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged Thomas E. Shaffer, 62, of Columbus, Ohio, with six armed robberies in an indictment returned in Columbus.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: April 16, 2015BOS 2015-082. Employer name: Allied Painting Inc., a painting contractor based in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Inspection site: Charles M. Braga Jr. Memorial Bridge, Fall River, Massachusetts 02720. Date inspection initiated: The inspection, which began Oct. 30, 2014, was conducted in response...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Gustavo Villegas, 28, of Laredo, has been ordered to prison following his conviction on four counts related to harboring 21 illegal aliens for profit, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A federal jury convicted Villegas Jan. 27, 2015, following a one-day trial and 90 minutes of deliberation.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: National Park Week 2015 Encourages Everyone To Find Your Park.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: Cummings to Host Panel Discussion on Bipartisan Criminal Justice Reform at Howard University
By Interior Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: Capitol Reef was proclaimed in 1937 as a national monument and established as a national park in 1971. It is known for the spectacular geology of the Waterpocket Fold, diverse ecological habitats, cultural landscape and recreational opportunities, and as a refuge of pristine dark night skies.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Mark Warner, D-Va., Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., Jim Risch, R-Idaho, and Joe Manchin, D.-W.Va., today welcomed the administration’s decision to renew a historic energy security agreement with Israel. The action comes a month after a bipartisan effort calling on Secretary of State John Kerry to renew the energy agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: Jed Bernard Connally, 55, of St. Albans, New York, was charged today by indictment with possession of a fraudulent U.S. passport card. The indictment charges that the defendant committed this offense on or about June 17, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: Michael Oppenheim Allegedly Made False And Misleading Representations To His Clients And Converted To His Own Use $20 Million Of His Clients’ Funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former California prison inmate, incarcerated for state sex offenses, was sentenced in federal court today for using a smuggled cell phone to distribute child pornography...
By State Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Representative Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), the leading Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Representative Matt Salmon (R-AZ), the Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, today announced that they have reintroduced legislation aimed at reducing drug trafficking...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Martin O. Madrid, 25, of Artesia, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to methamphetamine trafficking and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Juan Valencia-Diaz, age 41, a citizen of Mexico, and Jaime Geovany Bustos-Heras, age 36, Ecuador, were indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg on illegal re-entry charges.
