News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Abused Government Program Designed To Get Excess Computers Into Classrooms.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge David Downing and Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Joe Chantharath, aka “Joe Psycho", aka “Psycho", age 32, of Springdale, Arkansas, was sentenced today on one count...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee leaders today introduced bipartisan legislation that improves the infrastructure, reduces costs, creates greater accountability and transparency, leverages private sector resources, and accelerates project delivery for Amtrak and the Nation’s passenger rail transportation system.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Chief United States District Judge Anne C. Conway today sentenced Patrick R. Minga (50, formerly of Cape Coral) to four years and nine months in federal prison for to attempting to induce and facilitate, for his own financial gain, the travel of an individual from Brevard County, Florida...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Savannah, GA: Wilson R. Smith, 63, a licensed attorney from Vidalia, Georgia, was indicted this week by a federal grand jury sitting in Savannah on charges related to an alleged scheme to settle his clients’ cases without their knowledge and to steal the settlement proceeds. The indictment alleges that Smith stole over $1 million in fraudulently obtained settlement proceeds.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Dates: Monday, February 16th, 2015. Times: begins @ 10:00 am. Location: William Howard Taft NHS - Taft Education Center. Fees: No Fees for Event. William Howard Taft National Historic Site will celebrate Presidents day on Monday, Feb. 16, 2015 beginning at 10 am by offering Junior Ranger activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Reginald L. Thomas, 39, of Richmond was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge Morrison C. England, Jr. to 45 months in prison for Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.): Today, Ranking Members Ron Wyden (D-OR) of the Senate Finance Committee and Patty Murray (D-WA) of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee issued the following statements in response to the introduction of the Hatch-Burr proposal to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which would take away health insurance from millions Americans and force working and middle class families to pay more for their health care coverage.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., at a hearing with Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to discuss the president’s 2016 budget, said today that a comprehensive overhaul of the tax code is the best way to make the tax system fairer and simpler for American families, workers and businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Tonya Jennissen, 37, of Claremont, New Hampshire was sentenced to 30 months in prison, having pled guilty to one count of possessing child pornography. United States District Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford, sitting in Rutland, also sentenced Jennissen to 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Santiago Guerrero-Nova, age 31, formerly of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 17 months, the length of time he has been in prison since his arrest for distributing heroin in Hazleton, Pennsylvania...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: VAN BUREN, MO: Preparations are underway for Ozark National Scenic Riverways to accomplish several prescribed burns this spring in Shannon County. The burns will be carefully planned and monitored by the park’s Fire Management staff and will occur between late February and mid-April. The scheduling of these prescribed burns is dependent on weather and vegetation meeting certain conditions. During prescribed burns, park operations will continue as usual.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Tabone Also Found Guilty Of Witness Tampering.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Money Order Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Chazity Fluellen, 27, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of maintaining a drug involved premises, was sentenced to time served and two years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The judge also ordered the defendant to forfeit the residence at 23 10th Street in Buffalo and a Ford Explorer.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez today sentenced Edwin Monsanto, 54, of St. Thomas, to 33 months in prison and five years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: LEXINGTON, KY - Dongping “Daniel" Tao, a former mining engineering professor at the University of Kentucky, admitted in federal court today that he defrauded the University out of tens of thousands of dollars, in items and services.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that 19 defendants have been indicted for their roles in related conspiracies to distribute methamphetamine, marijuana and cocaine in Boone County, Mo., and elsewhere.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated that Hadden Andre Smith was sentenced today in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana, a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841; possession of firearms in furtherance...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DWYANE A. TILLMAN, a/k/a "Dwayne A. Tillman", age 47, of New Orleans, pled guilty yesterday to federal drug charges.
