News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger announced the sentencing of TIMOTHY GLEN CASKEY, 43, to 300 months in federal prison for assaulting a woman, kidnapping her, and robbing a bank in Kansas while in-transit to Mexico with the kidnapped victim. CASKEY was charged on Sept. 21, 2011, with kidnapping...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Austin Carlin, 19, of Corpus Christi, has been charged in a criminal complaint for violating the federal kidnapping act, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - United States Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment against Kimberly Christina Reidel-Byler, 46, and Darren K. Byler, 54, both residing near Kodiak, Alaska, charging them with offenses relating to the improper disposal of human waste into waters in and around Kodiak, Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: On Feb. 23, 2015, James L. Santelle, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that more than 650 people have registered for “Not for Sale": Wisconsin’s Response to Human Trafficking conference that will take place February 24-25, 2015, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Milwaukee...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: In Del Rio today, a former Maverick County commissioner, a former Maverick County employee and three contractors were sentenced for their roles in a bribery, kickback and bid-rigging scheme that caused the 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 DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Fuada Delic (32, Jacksonville) today pleaded guilty to aiding and assisting in the filing of a false tax return. He faces a maximum penalty of three years in federal prison. As part of the plea, Delic has agreed to make full restitution to the Internal Revenue Service for the tax loss arising from the 43 counts charged against her in the original indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. today sentenced Jeffery Hall (48, Maitland) to two years in federal prison for mail fraud. He was also sentenced to serve three years of supervised release, and will be ordered to pay restitution in an amount to be determined at a later proceeding. Hall pleaded guilty on Nov. 25, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Helen Jean Anderson, age 57, of Anderson, South Carolina, pled guilty today in federal court in Greenville, to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1349. Senior United...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Feb. 23, 2015, Gabriel Lazaro Garcia-Hernandez, a/k/a Gabriel L. Garcia, 54, Williston, N.D., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on a charge of possession of firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. Garcia was convicted on Oct. 29, 2014, by a federal jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - Two men with ties to the Inland Empire were each sentenced today to 300 months in federal prison for participating in plots to provide material support to terrorists and to kill American personnel.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Joseph W. Shepherd and United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Many resident was sentenced last week to 188 months in prison for distributing methamphetamine in the Sabine Parish area.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-This week, Senator Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, will launch a new “Middle Class Prosperity Project" to examine economic policies that threaten the middle class and identify new proposals that will ensure the middle class remains the engine of America’s economic growth.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: A Concord Township man was sentenced to more than three years in prison for defrauding Taupa Lithuanian Credit Union out of $2.3 million, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Feb. 20, 2015, Bradley Joseph Patton, age 46, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 15 months in prison, after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Patton was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release following his imprisonment and to pay $100 towards the Crime Victims Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: Seven suburban police department in Cuyahoga County and four county sheriffs’ offices will have increased crime analysis capability through a $300,000 Justice Department grant, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: Dear Ms. Tavenner and Mr. Koskinen...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Anthony M. Barnes, 38, of Detroit, was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: On February 23rd, 2015, Ranking Member Raul Grijalva sent a letter to the Honorable Sally Jewell regarding H.R. 308, "The Keep the Promise Act of 2015". Ranking Member Grijalva requested for the Department of Interior's views on this proposed legislation to ensure that all committee members have a full understanding of the potential impact of H.R.308.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management Subcommittee Chairman James Lankford (R-Okla.) called Monday on GAO to review whether the administration’s executive actions on immigration constituted rules under...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: Washington -Chuck Todd, moderator of NBC's Meet the Press and former chief White House correspondent for NBC News, will deliver the keynote address for a commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration. The ceremony, sponsored by the National Park Service and the Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia, will take place on Saturday, March 7 at 9:30 a.m. at the Lincoln Memorial and is free and open to the public.
