News from December 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Skyrocketing Generic Drug Prices Cost Taxpayers $1.4 Billion, New Report Finds
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Kurt Sanborn, a 48-year-old former resident of Dracut, Massachusetts, has been sentenced to 27 months in prison, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Arnoldo Garza, a resident of the McAllen, Texas, area, pled guilty in federal district court this afternoon to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine, the Acting United States Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Brian Nettles, age 24, of Baltimore, today to 78 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: After Shooting the Victim, Defendant Barricaded Himself for Over 30 Hours.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to attend a special 90-minute, mile and a half walking tour of Chickamauga Battlefield on Saturday,.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Juan Valenzuela, age 41, of Rogers, was sentenced to 150 months in federal prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay a $2,800.00 fine on one count of Conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Operation Software Slashers: Six Defendants Plead Guilty to $100 Million Software Piracy Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DONALD EALY, age 37, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute over one kilogram of heroin.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration today renewed its alliance with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and Roadway Work Zone Safety and Health Partners to protect workers in roadway construction work zones from injuries, illnesses and fatalities. The renewed alliance will continue for five years.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a statement following the Senate’s unanimous confirmation of Robert A. Salerno and Darlene M. Soltys to be Associate Judges, D.C. Superior Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: MARQUETTE, Mich. - Richard Jon Hill, age 39, known in the Ironwood, Michigan area as “Rock Star Rick," was sentenced to 180 months in federal prison for his conviction on federal drug charges. The sentence represents the culmination of a two-year investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: New York Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIL.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Wasilla man was charged with embezzling and misusing funds belonging to Alaska Railroad Workers Union Local 183. Jeffrey Davies was the President of the Union between 2011 and 2014. The federal indictment alleges that Davies stole more than $100,000 in union funds in the form of cash withdrawals, checks and by paying for personal expenses with a union debit card.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Pounds Prosecuted Pursuant to Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Lawrence Marks, 35, of Tewksbury, Massachusetts, appeared in United States District Court today and pled guilty to transportation of a minor in interstate commerce for illegal sexual activity, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Donald Feith.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Scott Anthony Orton, 57, of Puyallup, Washington, charging him with transmitting interstate threats, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former Pittsburgh resident pleaded guilty in federal court to charges involving bribery and illegal firearm possession, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By State Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, joined a group of lawmakers calling on the Obama Administration to focus on curbing the sale of looted antiquities as a way to cut off terrorist financing. In a letter to Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew,...
