News from April 2015
By DOE Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of April 27. Members will take major steps toward advancing 21st Century Cures and building the Architecture of Abundance. Members will also discuss ways to make the FCC more transparent and will continue their review of opioid abuse. Finally, the committee will advance bills to protect consumers and businesses from higher electricity rates and patent trolls.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: Final Co-Defendants Get Prison terms of Three to Six Years.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina - United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Flavio Torres-Tello, a.k.a. “El Jefe", age 42, of Newberry was sentenced in connection with a scheme that netted him and others $1.4 million dollars in fraudulent income tax refund checks from the United States Treasury.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - “Throughout his tenure as Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Todd Jones has cemented his reputation as an exemplary leader, a consummate professional, and an outstanding public servant. Since 2011, when I asked Todd to serve as Acting Director of ATF, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jacob Rivera, a/k/a “JJ," 20, of Rochester, N.Y., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute more than 280 grams of crack cocaine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking activities Before U.S. District Judge ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney reminds citizens to call law enforcement rather than take matters into their own hands.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Moon Township resident has entered a plea of guilty in Pittsburgh on charges of wire and mail fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As a longtime champion of expanding hydropower in the Northwest and throughout the United States, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement today after releasing a discussion draft on her legislation to update the federal regulation of non-federal hydropower, which gives certainty to those who are working through the regulatory process. Her legislation helps people utilize hydropower in Eastern Washington and across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: Defendant Fled Apartment After Murder, Was Arrested the Following Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Rodolfo Antonio Ortega, 29, of Boise, Idaho, pleaded guilty to one count of possessing methamphetamine for distribution, and one count of felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Kandel Markie Whiting, 35, of Pensacola, with receipt, distribution, and possession of child pornography. Counts one and two of the indictment allege that, between October 2014 and January 2015, Whiting knowingly received and distributed...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on April 24, 2015, an Indictment was unsealed charging Nicole Lynn Zabel, a/k/a Nicki Lynn Zabel, age 41, and Kenneth Ali Carman, age 42, both of Lincoln, with conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing methamphetamine...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Rickie D. Cloyd, 61, of Fall Branch, Tenn., was convicted of violating the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act related to his unlawful use of a restricted use pesticide. Cloyd was convicted following a bench trial in front of the Honorable Dennis H. Inman, U.S. Magistrate Judge, in April 2015 and was sentenced to pay a total of $5,000 in fines.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: Channel Islands National Park announces the completion of the Channel Islands National Park Final General Management Plan/Wilderness Study/Environmental Impact Statement (GMP).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Fernando Garcia, 30, of Anthony, N.M., was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 46 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: Randy Thomas, 45, of Miami Gardens, was sentenced yesterday to life in prison after having been convicted at trial of being a convicted felon who shot and injured a local police officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Jerrod Jones, 27, of East St. Louis, Illinois, was sentenced in federal district court in East St. Louis, to ten years in federal prison, 3 years’ supervised release, a $100 special assessment, and a fine of $500, following his plea of guilty, on Jan. 14, 2015, for the crime of Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As a longtime champion of expanding hydropower in the Northwest and throughout the United States, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement today after releasing a discussion draft on her legislation to update the federal regulation of non-federal hydropower, which gives certainty to those who are working through the regulatory process. Her legislation helps people utilize hydropower in Eastern Washington and across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on April 23, 2015, Anthony Cunningham, 28, and Anthony Johnson, 25, were both indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for Possession of Contraband by a Federal Inmate. Both Cunningham and Johnson were inmates...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, woman convicted of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury was sentenced on April 20, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
