News published on Federal Newswire in February 2015

News from February 2015


Canadian Man Sentenced 27 Months for Illegal Re-Entry

News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Steven LEVESQUE, 41, was sentenced on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015 by the Honorable Lawrence E. Kahn to 27 months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and James Spero, Special Agent-in-Charge, U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security...


News Release: President Obama’s FY 2016 budget seeks $842.1 million for the Office of Fossil Energy (FE) to advance technologies related to the reliable, efficient, affordable and environmentally sound use of fossil fuels, implement ongoing federal responsibilities at the Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves, and...


Lowey Statement on 2016 Budget Request

Release: Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement on President Obama’s 2016 budget request.


News Release: HOUSTON - William Owuama, 55, and Marla Owuama, 47, of Houston, have entered guilty pleas to charges related to a healthcare fraud scheme in which they billed Medicare for more than $9 million, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.


St. Albans felon gets 15 years for illegal firearm possession

News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Desmond Ra’Keesh White, 26, of St. Albans, West Virginia, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison.


News Release: ‪‪HOUSTON - Jeremy Jacobi Scott aka “J Moe," 30, of Houston, has been ordered to prison for 10 years following his conviction of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Scott pleaded guilty June 23, 2014.


News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that an Information was filed today charging a Dingman’s Ferry man with receiving and distributing child pornography.


DeFazio Requests Audit of Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Programs

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Inspector General Calvin L. Scovel, III requesting a full audit of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s...


News Release: President Obama today requested $1.2 billion in appropriations for the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management for Fiscal Year 2016. The request for BLM’s operating accounts represents an increase of $91.4 million above the 2015 enacted level. The proposal includes strategic investments...


ENGEL STATEMENT ON THE PRESIDENT’S INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS BUDGET

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the release of the President’s Fiscal Year 2016 international affairs budget...


Irving, Texas Man Guilty in Identity Theft Ring

News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 39-year-old Irving, Texas man has pleaded guilty for his role in an identity theft ring operating in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.


Four Sentenced in Theft from Federal Firearms Licensee

News Release: Gulfport, Miss - LaKeith Dentrell Smith, Damian O’Neil Towne, Theodore Dempsey Towne, and Princeton Scott Knox were sentenced on Jan. 29, 2015 by Chief District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., in a case involving the theft of 46 firearms, including machine guns from a federal firearms licensee, announced U. S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and ATF New Orleans Special Agent in Charge Phillip Durham.


Beckley man sentenced for using phone to arrange drug crime

News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Marcus Graves, 37, of Beckley, West Virginia, was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison.


News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Dwight McVernon Green, 24, of Huntington, West Virginia, was sentenced to nine years in federal prison.


News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, Feb. 2, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on Friday, Jan. 30, DAHONTA HILLIARD, 24, of Bridgeport, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge...


News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, Feb. 2, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on Friday, Jan. 30, MAURICE L. MILLIGAN, 36, of New London, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge...


News Release: Huntington, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today George Antonio Newman, 37, of Huntington, West Virginia, was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison.


Thompson Statement on FY 2016 Budget Request for DHS

News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the President's FY 2016 Budget Request for the Department of Homeland Security...


News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Gerri Raye Parker, 30, of Parkersburg, West Virginia, was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison.


News Release: Gulfport, Miss - LaKeith Dentrell Smith, Damian O’Neil Towne, Theodore Dempsey Towne, and Princeton Scott Knox were sentenced on Jan. 29, 2015 by Chief District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., in a case involving the theft of 46 firearms, including machine guns from a federal firearms licensee, announced U. S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and ATF New Orleans Special Agent in Charge Phillip Durham.