News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: MISSOULA - A federal judge sentenced Douglas James Gosnell, 62, of Anaconda, Montana, to 33 months in prison today for receipt of a firearm while under indictment. Chief U.S. District Court Judge Dana Christensen also sentenced Gosnell to three years of supervised release. The sentence follows Gosnell’s Aug. 11, 2015, guilty plea and will run concurrently with the remainder of a state sentence that Gosnell is serving.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that a former West Virginia State Trooper was sentenced today in federal court in Charleston, West Virginia, to two years and six months in federal prison for distribution of oxymorphone. Christopher Lee Saunders, 43, of Beckley, previously pleaded guilty in June 2015 to the federal drug charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Robert Bamberger, 53, and Tammy Bamberger, 46, both of Martins Ferry, Ohio, with marijuana trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: HAMMOND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Kenneth Culver, age 39, of Steger, Illinois, was sentenced Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015, in federal court by Judge Joseph S. Van Bokkelen after pleading guilty to 2 counts of bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: A payroll administrator pled guilty to tax evasion for diverting employees’ wage payments into bank accounts under her control and failing to report the money as gross income to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - George Englehart, 51, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor to 151 months in prison and five years of supervised release. In September 2015, Englehart pleaded guilty to armed bank robbery and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: A pair from Stark County were indicted for allegedly counterfeiting $20 bills, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Xiu Fang Zhang, 21, of New York, New York, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiring to commit credit card fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Enoc Ayuso, 26, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, was sentenced on Wednesday in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire on one count of conspiring to transport an individual in interstate commerce for prostitution, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Donald Feith. The Court imposed the statutory maximum sentence of 5 years’ imprisonment, to be followed by a period of supervised release.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today called for permanent reauthorization of the World Trade Center Health Program. Upton also outlined six permanent entitlement reforms totaling more than $4 billion to pay for permanent extension of the important program.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Madison County, Mississippi - On Dec. 2, 2015, at approximately 06:40 a.m., Natchez Trace Parkway Communications received notification of a Cadillac striking a tree near milepost 127.U.S. Park Rangers, Attala County Deputies, Madison County Deputies, Farmington Fire, and the Madison County Medical Examiner responded to the scene.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Preparing tax returns from her home, attempted to steal over $400,000.
By State Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement today regarding the IAEA’s report on the “Possible Military Dimensions" of Iran’s past nuclear work...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today approved two bipartisan proposals aimed at improving access to wired and wireless broadband for all Americans. The subcommittee today advanced a legislative package to improve broadband infrastructure deployment and H.R. 1641, the Federal Spectrum Incentive Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Former Huntsville, Alabama, Police Officer Sentenced for Excessive Use of Force and Obstruction of Justice.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review a Draft Environmental Assessment analyzing the impacts of acquiring refuge water supplies from privately and publically owned groundwater production wells within or near the Grassland Ecological Area and the city of Los Banos. The groundwater acquisitions are proposed as a 5-year action, March 2016 through February 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Jeffery L. Burdine, 38, of Hundred, West Virginia, and Devin K. Wright, 25, of Fairmont, West Virginia, with wire fraud, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, December 9, 2015, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining Legislation to Improve Health Care and Treatment." The subcommittee will continue its efforts to advance critical legislation that will address shortcomings in current law and reauthorize an important nursing training program.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Two people from Northeast Ohio were charged wtih mail theft by a postal employee, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Peter Anderson, 56, of Berwick, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to two years in prison and five of supervised release for possessing child pornography. He was also ordered to pay $5,000 to each of three victims who sought restitution. He pleaded guilty on April 10, 2015.
