News from August 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that James Moorcroft, 50, of Brookfield, Vermont, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Burlington to six months of imprisonment following his guilty plea to charges that he possessed eight trucks and tractors...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 3, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee delivered remarks on the Senate floor ahead of a vote on proceeding to a bill that would deny women access to health care by defunding Planned Parenthood.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JASON SHEEHAN, 41, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 37 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for engaging in an extensive bankruptcy...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2015
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Chris O’Connor, 37, of Martinsburg, was sentenced today to 12 months in prison for unlawful distribution of explosives, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2015
News Release: On Friday, July 31st, Andrew Smith, also known as “Back-it," was arrested by members of the United States Marshals Service New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force; the United States Marshals Service Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team; Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Removal; and the Cincinnati Police Department. Smith was arrested with the assistance of a K-9 unit at approximately 1:30 a.m. in Cincinnati, Ohio, after a brief stand-off.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Krystal Bell, 29, of Corinth, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to two years in prison and three years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute bath salts. She was also ordered to pay a $1,000 fine. She pleaded guilty to the charge on Feb. 13, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Toribio Cruz-Galvan (Cruz), 30, of Turicato, Michoacán, Mexico, was sentenced today to two years in prison for conspiring to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute marijuana, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 3, 2015
News Release: NOTE: SEPT. 2-3 MEETING WILL BE LIVESTREAMED AT www.blm.gov/liveThe Bureau of Land Management’s National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board will meet on September 2-3 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to discuss issues relating to the management and protection of wild horses and burros on Western public rangelands.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today issued the following statement after chief trade negotiators concluded talks for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement in Hawaii...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -John Derek Gitmed, 53, of Los Angeles, pleaded guilty today to one count of trafficking in counterfeit goods, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 3, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Wilbert Inc., Belmont, North Carolina
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2015
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Kimberly Haslacker, 39, of Romney, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 12 months in prison for bank fraud after she admitted to using her position as a bank loan officer to obtain fraudulent loans, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that Pediatric Services of America Healthcare, Pediatric Services of America, Inc., Pediatric Healthcare, Inc., Pediatric Home Nursing Services (collectively, “PSA"), and Portfolio Logic, LLC agreed to pay $6.88 million ($6,882,387) to resolve allegations...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury indicted Leroy T. King, Jr., age 54, of Bryans Road, Maryland, today on charges arising from a scheme to fraudulently obtain at least $60,000 in disability travel benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2015
News Release: Defendant used 16 different minors to produce child pornography using social media.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Chief U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney sentenced the owner of a North Carolina investment firm to 96 months in prison today, for orchestrating a Ponzi scheme that solicited victims to invest millions in the foreign currency market (“FOREX"), announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, Acting...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - An Atlanta man who was caught with crack cocaine and a loaded firearm in Huntington in 2014 was sentenced today to ten years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Reginald Wendell Weems, 33, previously pleaded guilty in federal court in Huntington in April of 2015 to possession with intent to distribute cocaine base.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 3, 2015
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected Thar Energy, LLC to develop new recuperator technologies leading to more cost-effective and efficient supercritical carbon dioxide (SCO2)-based power cycles.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2015
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Willard Phillip Maldonado and Austin Henry Phillips were sentenced in Yakima for their involvement in the commercialization of eagles. Maldonado, 41, of Union Gap, Washington, was sentenced to 9...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Dwayne Palmer, 37, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Berlin, New Hampshire, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire on federal weapon possession charges, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith. The Court imposed a term of six months’ imprisonment, to be served consecutive to Palmer’s current prison sentence.
