News from April 2015
By State Newswire | Apr 13, 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 Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to lift a ban on supplying Iran with S-300 air defense missile systems.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man who distributed heroin in May of 2014 was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Thomas Edward Hill, 41, previously pleaded guilty in January of 2015 to distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence man was sentenced today to 16 years in prison for his role in a 2012 kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA- Greg Sullivan, 50, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for conspiracy to maliciously damage property by means of fire, and Hobbs Act Extortion. Sullivan pleaded guilty on Sept. 23, 2014. He participated in the Grays Avenue arson and the attempted arson in...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: LEXINGTON - A Richmond man, who previously admitted to making images of child pornography available for download on the internet, has been sentenced to 144 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - U.S. District Judge James S. Moody, Jr. today sentenced Warren and Aigoul Gold to 12 months and one day, and six months in federal prison, respectively, for drug trafficking and money laundering charges. The Court also ordered a money judgment in the amount of $713,570 and forfeiture of $61,232 in a bank account, both of which are traceable to proceeds of the offenses. The Golds pleaded guilty on July 24, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: Nolin RECC agrees to pay $7,619,333.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: Defendant Worked on Unsuccessful Campaign of D.C. Council Candidate.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James S. Moody, Jr. today sentenced Warren and Aigoul Gold to 12 months and one day, and six months in federal prison, respectively, for drug trafficking and money laundering charges. The Court also ordered a money judgment in the amount of $713,570 and forfeiture of $61,232 in a bank account, both of which are traceable to proceeds of the offenses. The Golds pleaded guilty on July 24, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: Mike Reynolds has been named as the new superintendent of Death Valley National Park, located in eastern California and western Nevada. He replaces Kathy Billings who recently retired. Reynolds will begin his new assignment on May 31, 2015, managing a staff of 125 full-time employees and an annual budget of approximately $9 million.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) issued the following statement after the GAO issued three recommendations to protect the flying public against cyberattacks on our aviation system.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Kenneth Manuel Martin, 66, formerly of Modesto, pleaded guilty today to one count of wire fraud in connection with a Guatemalan real estate investment scheme, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: Last of 10 federal defendants to plead guilty.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -THURSDAY, Congressman Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, will host and moderate a forum titled “From Protest to Policy: A Bipartisan Approach to Criminal Justice Reform," which will examine the state of America’s criminal justice...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: This National Volunteer Week, April 12-18, the National Park Service commends local Volunteer-in-the-Park (VIP) Lynne Jacques, currently the park librarian at the Cape Hatteras Light Station.Lynne has been consistently volunteering one day a week, staffing the library and sharing stories of the Cape...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - An Olathe man pleaded guilty Monday to his role in a scheme to launder profits from marijuana trafficking through a casino in Kansas City, Kan., U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Paul Lacey, 56, of Youngstown, Ohio, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with participating in a wire fraud scheme. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: Training held at Corinthian Missionary Baptist Church.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: LITTLE ROCK - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, today announced the unsealing of a federal complaint charging a Greenbrier, Ark., man with multiple counts related to an identity theft that had been continuously occurring for more than 20 years. On April...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015
News Release: Four Former Blackwater Employees Sentenced to Decades in Prison for Fatal 2007 Shootings in Iraq.
