News from December 2015
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: Ajo, Arizona- Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument sponsored a Wilderness Workshop coordinating with the U.S. Border Patrol who hosted the class at their Ajo Station in Why, AZ. Four local agencies came together for two days of training conducted by the Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Delano A. Reid, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, today announced that CHARLES FAMILETTI, JR., a former Vice-President at HSBC Bank, was convicted Monday evening in Manhattan federal court of attempted sex trafficking of a minor, distribution of child pornography, transportation of child pornography, and possession of child pornography, following a five-day trial before Chief United States District Judge Loretta A. Preska.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: BURLINGTON, Vt - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Damein Hampton, 38, of Ypsilanti, Michigan, appeared Friday for sentencing in United States District...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: A six-count indictment was filed today charging an Akron man for soliciting the murder of members of the U.S. military.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas), and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today announced a final agreement has been reached by the Senate and House conference committee on H.R. 644, the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after he, together with Reps. Pat Tiberi (R-OH) and Dave Reichert (R-WA), were named House Conferees for H.R. 644 - Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: McCOMB, Miss. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Daniel Comeaux and U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today Dr. Lawrence Edsel Stewart, 59, of McComb, has been charged in a 27-count federal indictment with violations of knowingly and intentionally distributing and dispensing...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: HAMMOND - United States Attorney David Capp announced that: David J. Nozick, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Indiana;. Bruce R. Hegyi, Trial Attorney for the Department of Justice Capital Case Section;. Jason M. Gore, Special Agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, ...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today highlighted three reports produced during the past year by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources majority staff on the growing volatility in Iraq, the rise of ISIS and its black market oil sales, and the relationship between global petroleum outages and instability.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Todd Robinson (619) 546-7994 or David Leshner (619) 546-7921.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Marion M. Kimball, 51, of Newark, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 144 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release for receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Plainfield, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 144 months in prison for arranging sexual encounters involving a 15-year-old girl in return for payment, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriguez, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the unsealing of a complaint charging KRISTOPHER ROCCHIO with computer fraud...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Today, Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement on the passing of Shirley Melton Johnson, beloved wife of Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson.
By State Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: I want to thank our witness [U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power].
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that on December 8, 2015, Michael Anthony Welker, 52, Shane Christopher Widmyer, 34, David Alan Vest, 39, all residents of Ketchikan, Alaska, pled guilty in federal court in Juneau to violating the Lacey Act by illegally transporting halibut that was caught for subsistence and sport purposes.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to participate in a free, one hour program at Bethlehem-Wiley United Methodist Church, 500 Lookout Street, Chattanooga, Tennessee 37403, on Saturday, December 19 at 2 pm.This program will explore the final steps in validating the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - James J. McCullagh, 60, of Meadowbrook, PA, pleaded guilty today to four counts of making false statements, one count of obstruction of justice, and one count of willfully violating an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulation causing death to an employee. U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Hot Springs, South Dakota, woman, Rebecca Sotherland, was found not guilty on December 8, 2015, of Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law, Assault With a Dangerous Weapon, and Obstruction of a Federal Investigation after a federal jury trial in Rapid City. Sotherland was indicted on Aug. 26, 2014.
