News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Joe Harris, also known as Ezekiel Maza, 58, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 14 months in prison on a federal charge of failure to register as a sex offender, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Michael Hughes, U.S. Marshal for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
By State Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: Mr. Secretary, I know you’ve been doing a lot of traveling around the world and have a lot of important issues to deal with. And we appreciate very much you coming in today to talk about your budget and your testimony today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department, in partnership with the U.S. Department of State’s Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) Rewards Program, announced today a reward of up to $3 million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of a prolific cyber criminal. Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev was charged with numerous violations for his role as an administrator of the GameOver Zeus botnet.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physicist Michael Boss will receive the 2015 Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer, according to the FLC.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: Urbana, Ill. B Three Kankakee area men, with prior felony convictions, have been sentenced to federal prison terms for illegal possession of firearms, as announced by U.S. Attorney Jim Lewis, Central District of Illinois. The men, who have been in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service since their ...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md.-The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced the award of new cooperative agreements to 10 nonprofit organizations and universities to manage Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) centers. NIST's MEP program helps...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: In Del Rio today, one former Maverick County commissioner, three former Maverick County employees and four Eagle Pass businessmen were sentenced for their roles in a bribery, kickback and bid-rigging scheme that caused Maverick County to lose more than $1.3 million announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, blasted House Republican leadership for holding critical Coast...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court, Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard sentenced TERESA LYN FLETCHER, age 55, of Raleigh, North Carolina, to 60 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By State Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on President Obama’s veto of S.1, the Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Act, which passed Congress with bipartisan support...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Michael Karlberg, 26, of East Montpelier, Vermont, was sentenced on Feb. 23, 2015, in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont, to serve a lifetime period of supervised release following his conviction on one count of possession of child pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B). Judge William K. Sessions III also ordered Karlberg to pay a $100 special assessment.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement marking four days until funding for the Department of Homeland Security runs out unless Congress acts...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A total of 12 drug traffickers have been handed federal prison sentences for their convictions related to a far-reaching drug trafficking conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Edgar Loera and Miguel Angel Vives-Macias were convicted by a federal jury of multiple counts involving heroin and methamphetamine on March 3, 2014, following a five-day trial and less than four hours of deliberation. Ten others pleaded guilty in advance of that trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Feb. 19, 2015, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 25 defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances in the municipality of Yauco, PR, announced Vito S. Guarino, Special Agent...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today criticized President Obama’s veto of the Keystone XL Pipeline Act (S.1 ), legislation that would approve the cross-border permit allowing for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: Allegedly Used Account Access And Other Employee Identities To Steal More Than $500,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: A criminal information has been filed in federal court charging Stephen J. Wilshinsky, 59, of Woodland Hills, California, and former stock broker with the Compass Group of Oppenheimer Inc. and Marquis Financial Services of Indiana, Inc. with one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud, securities...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: Domingo Vargas, 36, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was charged today by Indictment with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that OMAR BAHAMONDE, also known as “Dirk," 30, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 84 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for ...
