News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On December 4, 2015, Gerald W. Ledford, age 57, of Clinton, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to four years’ probation, with the first six months in home confinement, after pleading guilty to transmitting a threatening communication, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Eight individuals were sentenced in federal court today after they admitted to participating in a multi-state heroin trafficking scheme, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On December 4, 2015, Sandra Lagos Neda, age 51, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 12 months and one day in prison after pleading guilty to illegal re-entry into the United States, announced Acting United States Attorney Kevin...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: January 9, 10, 11 The Predators -This film explores the relationship between predator and prey with understanding.It contains the most exciting and the most beautiful sequences ever films of these creatures. There is no cruelty, no sentimentality.They are shown, not as fearsome enemies of humans, but...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IA - Assistant United States Attorney, and Army Reserve Major General, Patrick J. Reinert, from Cedar Rapids, recently became the commanding general of the 88th Regional Support Command (RSC) during a change of command ceremony.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Richard Robinson, 58, of Alexandria, pleaded guilty today to receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Two Malaysian nationals have been arrested on federal wildlife smuggling charges after they allegedly used mail parcels to illegally smuggle orangutan skulls and parts of other protected wildlife into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Corona woman who was the chief executive officer of a high-end jean company that outfitted Hollywood celebrities was sentenced today to 79 months in federal prison for running what prosecutors called “two fraud schemes of epic proportions.".
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A United States citizen has been deported from the Republic of Uganda and brought to the Western District of Pennsylvania to face charges of leading an international counterfeit currency operation headquartered in that African nation. The announcement was made today by David Hickton, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania and Eric Zahren, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Secret Service - Pittsburgh Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 28-year-old resident of Corpus Christi had been ordered to federal prison following his convictions of possessing with the intent to distribute a synthetic cannabinoid and for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Abel Martinez pleaded guilty Sept. 15, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Jeffrey Poole, age 40, of Parkton, Maryland, today to 42 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft arising from a seven year scheme to access a client’s bank account. Chief Judge Blake also entered an order requiring Poole to pay restitution of $160,000.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: New York - Celebrate Kwanzaa on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015 at African Burial Ground National Monument in lower Manhattan.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a federal jury found two men from Monroe guilty of their roles in a methamphetamine conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: The National Weather Service has issued a high surf warning that can generate sneaker waves and is in effect until 4 am Tuesday. Westerly swells are predicted at 15 to 18 feet.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: The House of Representatives today overwhelmingly approved the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, five-year legislation to improve America’s roads, bridges, public transit, and rail transportation systems and reform federal surface transportation programs.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: Six months ago the Senate and House came together on a bipartisan basis and said the NAFTA era in trade was over. The United States, from that point forward, was going to follow a new playbook on trade. That’s exactly what this conference report is all about.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Acting U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that the District of Oregon collected $8,495,950.20 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2015. This includes work that Oregon conducted with other U.S. Attorney’s Offices and components of the Department of Justice to collect $2,401,688.23 in cases pursued jointly with these offices.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: Southern California Ambulance Company Owner, Operator and Managers Sentenced to Prison for Medicare Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: Former Secret Service Agent Sentenced to 71 Months in Scheme Related to Silk Road Investigation.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: NIST scientists, with collaborators at the University of Michigan, have designed and demonstrated a new and easily tunable, high-contrast scattering agent for biomedical imaging applications. The agent is made from clusters of plates of silver about 50 nanometers across and a few nanometers deep, covered with a polymeric coating - small enough, even when clustered together, to travel into tiny spaces within living cells which are about a thousand times larger.
