News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Dingman’s Ferry man pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton, to receiving and distributing child pornography.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: A new sorghum plant developed by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists can produce more seeds than conventional varieties currently grown by farmers.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: LITTLE ROCK - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, along with David T. Resch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced today that Demetrius Colbert, age 39, of Marianna, was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Nathaniel Cousart, 53, of Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison on charges stemming from a stabbing and assault in Northwest Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: For Shooting at Special Police Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - Timothy Joe Swallows, 39, of Cleveland, Tenn., was sentenced on Feb. 6, 2015, by the Honorable Curtis L. Collier, U.S. District Judge, to serve 262 months in prison. Swallows pleaded guilty in July 2014 to a federal indictment charging him with, among other things, aiding and abetting the possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine (actual).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - The results of the February 2015 Federal Grand Jury were announced today by Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Deshawn King, 35, of Allentown, PA, was sentenced today to years 293 months in prison for running a sex trafficking operation, incorporating heroin as a means of punishing and controlling the victims. King pleaded guilty on Jan. 10, 2014 to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of women...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Aaron Grant Willis, 25, of Heidelberg, Mississippi, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, was sentenced on February 5, 2015 by U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to 18 months in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for sexual contact with a minor under the age of twelve, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i -A 71-year-old male visitor from Japan died yesterday after suffering an apparent heart attack at Thurston Lava Tube in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following reaction to the announcement that the U.S. Postal Service lost $754 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2015...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment against TAMEKIA CECILIA HARTON, age 34, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The indictment charges the defendant with false claims against the government, in violation of Title 18, United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina ---- A plea and sentencing hearing has been scheduled in connection with United States v. Dorothy Barnett, a case involving International Parental Kidnapping and False Statements in a Passport Application. United States District Court Judge Richard M. Gergel will preside over the proceedings as indicated below.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: “I am extremely concerned about the increasing frequency and sophistication of these types of attacks and the threat that they pose to the privacy of all Americans. This may be the largest breach of a health care company to date, and, while I take each and every breach seriously, I am especially concerned...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri announced that a federal indictment was unsealed earlier today charging six individuals with terrorist related crimes. Charged in the indictment are: RAMIZ ZIJAD HODZIC, his wife SEDINA UNKIC HODZI and ARMIN HARCEVIC...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: A lighting contractor was sentenced today to one year and a day imprisonment for agreeing to bribe a Broward County public official.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: “I am extremely concerned about the increasing frequency and sophistication of these types of attacks and the threat that they pose to the privacy of all Americans. This may be the largest breach of a health care company to date, and, while I take each and every breach seriously, I am especially concerned...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of February 9. The committee will review the fragmented federal efforts related to serious mental illness, discuss the upcoming implementation of ICD-10, review the DOE budget with Secretary Moniz, and vote on six bipartisan bills.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Gary Snisky, age 48, of Longmont, Colorado, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Court Judge Raymond P. Moore to mail fraud and money laundering, federal authorities announced. Judge Moore is scheduled to sentence Snisky on June 18, 2015. Snisky was indicted by a federal grand jury in...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - The owners of a tax preparation business that filed fraudulent tax returns on behalf of inmates at various New Jersey prisons were convicted at trial today of conspiracy, mail fraud and making false claims to the United States for payment of fraudulent tax refunds, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo announced.
