News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2015
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Timothy Paul Morgan, 51, of Newport News, was sentenced today to 75 months in prison and five years of supervised release for receipt of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2015
News Release: COLUMBIA FALLS, Montana- The Bureau of Reclamation is seeking public comments to identify issues and concerns to be addressed in an Environmental Assessment for a proposed Hungry Horse Power Plant (HHPP) Modernization, part of Hungry Horse Dam in northwest Montana.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2015
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Christopher Square, age 29, of Kahnawake, Quebec, Canada, was sentenced on Friday to serve 9 months in prison for alien smuggling, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and U.S. Border Patrol Chief Patrol Agent John C. Pfeifer.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2015
News Release: Memphis, TN - In light of multiple inquiries regarding the July shooting of teenager Darrius Stewart by a Memphis police officer, U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III has announced that the Department of Justice (DOJ), in tandem with its Civil Rights Division, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation is conducting a comprehensive review of the matter.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation today released the Southeast California Regional Basin Study, which evaluates options to resolve water supply and demand imbalances within the Borrego, Coachella and Imperial Valleys in southeastern California in the face of uncertainty due to climate change. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2015
News Release: False Reports of Police Shooting Incited Bystanders on May 4, 2015; Defendant Also Committed Assault Five Weeks Earlier.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2015
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jordan Hildalgo, 24, and Ritchie Juarbe, 25 both of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) conspiracy before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2015
News Release: Conspirators Impersonated Cerner to Sell MRI to Dallas Hospital, Recruit Investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Nakia Adams, 41, address unknown, was charged by indictment, unsealed today, with conspiracy, making false statements to a federal firearms licensee, possession of firearms by a convicted felon, and aiding and abetting, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The charges arise...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2015
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Dec. 14, 2015, Timothy Chesser, 35, of Harriman, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 240 months in prison, by the Honorable Pamela L. Reeves, U.S. District Judge, for conspiracy to manufacture 50 grams or more of methamphetamine (meth) and possession of precursors used to manufacture...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -Ezequiel Armas-Ortiz (Armas), 49, of Michoacán, Mexico, was sentenced today to two years in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill for conspiring to manufacture, distribute and possess with intent to distribute, manufacturing, and possessing with intent to distribute marijuana in connection with a large-scale cultivation operation on public land, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CEDRIC NEWMAN, 46, of Newington, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to one count of theft of public funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Robert “Meech" Tucker, age 24, of Baltimore, today to 42 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegal possession of a gun by a previously convicted felon.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 14, 2015
News Release: Upcoming Webinars. December 15: Live Webinar on Funding for Small Clean Energy Businesses. Webinar Sponsor: SBIR Program. The Energy Department will present a live webinar titled “EERE Cleantech SBIR," on Tuesday, Dec. 15, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. This webinar discusses...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Christopher Michael Whitacre, 50, of Hanford, pleaded guilty today to theft in a special maritime or territorial jurisdiction, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2015
News Release: “This case demonstrates that when it comes to murder - or indeed any gang activity - our Office will pursue relentlessly until every perpetrator is brought to justice," said U.S. Attorney Hochul.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2015
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment Wednesday afternoon charging Jeremy Rose, age 38, of Tremonton, with production of child pornography, possession of child pornography, and coercion and enticement.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that HARVEY NEWKIRK, formerly counsel at Bryan Cave LLC, the New York law firm, was found guilty today of wire fraud in connection with his participation in a scheme to fraudulently induce lenders to provide tens of millions of dollars toward the purchase of Maxim Magazine and related assets (“Maxim").
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2015
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Daniel Humberto Pulido-Mojica, age 30, a citizen of Colombia, was sentenced on Friday to serve 11 months in prison for alien smuggling, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and U.S. Border Patrol Chief Patrol Agent John C. Pfeifer.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2015
News Release: Four are among 29 sentenced to federal prison terms for various racketeering and drug offenses.