News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Former North Providence town councilman and former Rhode Island Deputy Secretary of State Paul Caranci has been awarded the prestigious 2014 Margaret Chase Smith American Democracy Award, presented by the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) for “acts of political courage.".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - David A. Seiver, 77, of Upper Darby, PA, was charged today by indictment with transportation of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the indictment, Seiver transported and shipped a video file of an adult male raping a child.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Mercury Products Corp. Inspection site: Mercury Products Corp., 1201 S. Mercury Drive, Schaumburg, Illinois. On Aug. 13, 2014, a safety and health inspection was initiated at Mercury Products Corp., by the Chicago North Area Office of the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety...
By State Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: Dear Mr. Secretary: We remain deeply concerned that Pakistan has failed to take meaningful action against key Islamist terrorist groups operating within its territory. Like you, we were horrified by the December attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar which killed almost 150 people, mostly school...
By State Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following statement at a committee hearing on the growing strategic threat of ISIS...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Calvin Fuson, 44, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Winslow, Ariz., pleaded guilty this morning in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a misdemeanor assault charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: In Midland today, U.S. District Judge Robert A. Junell sentenced 35-year-old Joel Aguirre-Lara of Greenville, TX, to life in federal prison for transporting a minor to Mexico for sexual purposes announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr. and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez in El Paso.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that NELSON ROUSSELL, age 31, and ZACHARY DEMERS, age 21, both of New Orleans, were charged today in a four-count Indictment for violations of the Federal Controlled Substances Act. In Count One of the Indictment, ROUSSELL and DEMERS were charged with conspiring...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Mario Enrique Patlan, 45, Cristina Patlan, 23, and Reymundo Abel Brown Jr., 27, have all entered guilty pleas today in a long-running effort to smuggle drugs via UPS, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. All three are Brownsville residents.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: Feb. 12, 2015 BOS 2015-027. BOSTON - Employees at Central Transport LLC's 170 freight shipping terminals nationwide use forklifts daily to move, handle, load and unload freight and other materials. These vehicles must be maintained according to recognized safety standards, so that workers are not crushed, ...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Department of Energy’s Western Area Power Administration (Western) and a group of Arizona utilities celebrated the energizing of a new transmission infrastructure project that will serve the state’s growing electrical energy needs, attract renewable energy development to the area, and strengthen the transmission system in the Southwestern United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: Contact Person: Lance Crick (864) 282-2100.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury today found Shamorcus Brandan Nesbitt (28, Tampa) guilty of conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery, interference with commerce by robbery, carrying a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH- A former resident of Etna, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 10 years imprisonment followed by 25 years supervised release on his conviction of distribution of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - RAYMOND T. DRAKE, age 53, of Albany, New York, was sentenced today to 327 months in prison for two counts of distribution of child pornography, one count of receiving child pornography, and three counts of possession of child pornography by Chief United States District Judge Gary L.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: FORT MYERS, Fla. - A.D. Wright, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces that Jorge (53, Cape Coral) has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: Walter Lee Dunn, 31, of Richmond, Kentucky, was charged with transportation of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: This case is one of many brought as a result of the United States Attorney Stephen R. Wigginton’s Metro-East Armed Robbery Initiative.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, chaired by Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN) today held a hearing to examine how emerging technology is impacting schools’ ability to safeguard student data. During the hearing, members and witnesses discussed what Congress can do to improve ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - On Feb. 11, 2015, Kevin Grant Lee, 35, formerly of Mesa, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Judge Roslyn O. Silver to 12 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for his role in assisting his brother, Scott Thomas Lee, in committing mortgage loan origination...
