News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland -Wilmer Argueta, a/k/a “Chengo," age 23, of Hyattsville, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise known as La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, including an assault, attempted murder and extortion.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2015
News Release: Defendant Concealed His Manipulative Trading Through Nominees.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2015
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI- A federal grand jury has returned a 12-count indictment charging Tequan Anthony Joseph, 23, Ja’Moi Khadeem Corraspe, 22, D’Mari Jahcoi Heyliger, 22, and Calvia Lake, 20, with federal and territorial firearm offenses, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced today. Joseph was...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 20, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power and the Subcommittee on Commerce Manufacturing and Trade will each hold a hold a markup on Wednesday, April 22, 2015.

By DOE Newswire | Apr 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today announced that they are initiating a series of meetings to explore the feasibility of expanding access to unlicensed spectrum for consumer use. The leaders will meet with the Federal Communications Commission, the Department of Commerce’s...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO -MARK AVALOS, St. Peters, Missouri, was sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to pay $497,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to bank fraud charges relating to his work as the Controller for The Mortgage Store (TMS) in 2008. In imposing sentence today, United States District Judge Henry E. Autrey noted Avalos’ cooperation in the criminal investigation into the collapse of TMS in 2008.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2015
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Ronald Francis Croteau to 56 months in federal prison for filing false tax claims and for obstructing or impeding the administration of the Internal Revenue laws. A federal jury found him guilty on Jan. 22, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today announced that they are initiating a series of meetings to explore the feasibility of expanding access to unlicensed spectrum for consumer use. The leaders will meet with the Federal Communications Commission, the Department of Commerce’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2015
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Rasheed Ali Muhammad, age forty-two (42), of Bridgeport, Connecticut, was sentenced to a total of 1,440 months in federal prison (240 months on each of six counts) followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and possessing with intent...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2015
News Release: A man who attempted to entice a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today announced that they are initiating a series of meetings to explore the feasibility of expanding access to unlicensed spectrum for consumer use. The leaders will meet with the Federal Communications Commission, the Department of Commerce’s...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2015
News Release: LEXINGTON - A Madison County man, who was previously convicted of heroin charges, has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.

By DOL Newswire | Apr 20, 2015
News Release: OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. - Gerald Moran had completed numerous framing jobs like the one at a new Government Street residence in Ocean Springs. Unlike past jobs, this one claimed his life. On Nov. 3, 2014, Moran and two workers installed balcony ceiling planks when Moran lost his balance and fell more than 20 feet. He sustained fatal injuries and died eight days later.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Kenneth Charles Poston, III, age 37 of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced on April 17, 2015, in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 78 months in prison by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard, for possessing child pornography. Poston’s sentence also requires him to pay restitution totaling $2,000.00, to be on supervised release for ten years after being released from prison, and to register as a sex offender.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 20, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power and the Subcommittee on Commerce Manufacturing and Trade will each hold a hold a markup on Wednesday, April 22, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2015
News Release: SILT, Colo. - Volunteers are needed April 25 for the annual community clean-up at the Hubbard Mesa and Fravert Reservoir area north of Rifle, Colo.

By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power and the Subcommittee on Commerce Manufacturing and Trade will each hold a hold a markup on Wednesday, April 22, 2015.

By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2015
News Release: This notice is to inform visitors of temporary closures to foot traffic and minimum approach distance of 100 yards at four islands in Glacier Bay.The purpose of these closures is to protect high concentrations of nesting seabirds by minimizing human caused disturbance and mortalities of chicks.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2015
News Release: PACER Case Reference: 15-02. GREAT FALLS - A Wolf Point man who drove the getaway car in a Fort Peck casino robbery pleaded guilty today. Patrick Beauchamp, 35, was charged with aiding abetting robbery after he planned the robbery with others and served as the getaway driver. He faces up to twenty years...

By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2015
News Release: Long Island, New York - On March 22 a National Park Service (NPS) Park Ranger discovered a nesting pair of bald eagles at the William Floyd Estate, a unit of Fire Island National Seashore located in Mastic on Long Island. Portions of the William Floyd Estate will be closed to the public through the nesting season to protect the eagles and nest site during this sensitive time.