News from February 2015
By DOT News Wire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced today at Washington’s Union Station a proposed rule to increase oversight responsibilities of State Safety Oversight Agencies (SSOAs) by replacing the existing outdated regulatory framework with one designed to better evaluate the effectiveness ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: Casa Grande Ruins National Monument News Release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: Advance Fee Scheme Targeted Developers Seeking Financing For Construction Projects In Areas Devastated By Hurricane Katrina.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - A.D. Wright, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces the arrest and charge by a federal complaint of Shawn Paul (41, Dade City); Vladimir (26) and Jose Edgar...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: Conspirators Used Other Individuals’ Identities, False Income and Credit Information to Induce Lenders to Provide Home Mortgage Loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: A Youngtown man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for narcotics offenses, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger announced the sentencing of BUCK OTTO WHITE a/k/a “TIMOTHY JOSEPH HOFFMAN," 50, to 300 months in federal prison for illegally possessing stolen firearms and ammunition. WHITE was charged on April 7, 2014, with two counts of possession of firearms and ammunition ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: A St. Louis man, convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine and Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering, was sentenced to 144 months in federal prison on Feb. 20, 2015, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Zachary Weil...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Feb. 20, 2015, Dan Stephen Daniels, 49, Columbia, IL, was arraigned on a two-count Indictment charging him, in Count 1, with Receipt of Child Pornography, and, in Count 2, Possession of Prepubescent Child Pornography. Daniels was ordered detained, that is, held without bond, after a detention hearing held immediately after his arraignment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: FORMER IRS EMPLOYEE AND THREE OTHERS.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: Jurors found that defendant lied about his previous association with the Amal militia.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: ISB Special Agents will keep investigating the story of a centuries-old skull donated to Gettysburg.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today issued the following statement on the Department of the Interior’s new draft regulations for oil and natural gas activities in Alaska’s Chukchi and Beaufort seas:
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced James Otis Liptak (36, Merritt Island) to six years and six months in federal prison for receipt and possession of child pornography. The Court also ordered him to forfeit specific computers and hard drives on which the images of child pornography had been found. Liptak pleaded guilty on Oct. 22, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Feb. 20, 2015, Mark Graziano, previous owner of Bauder Pharmacy in Des Moines, Iowa, was sentenced by Chief Judge James E. Gritzner to 24 months in prison and three years of supervised release following the period of imprisonment, announced United States Attorney Nick Klinefeldt. Graziano stipulated that the federal tax loss was $455,204 and the State of Iowa tax loss was $122,301, and Judge Gritzner also ordered restitution in the amount of $577,505.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 20, 2015 - Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01) issued the following statement on proposed regulations for exploration and drilling activities on the U.S. Arctic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) announced earlier today by the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Offices for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of North Carolina, along with the Department of Justice - Environmental Crimes Section, filed criminal charges today against three subsidiaries of Duke Energy Corporation: Duke Energy Business Services LLC, Duke Energy Carolinas LLC, and Duke Energy Progress, Inc. for multiple violations of the Clean Water Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the arrest and charge by a federal complaint of Shawn Paul Hendricks (41, Dade City); Vladimir Castaneda (26) and Jose Edgar Gonzalez-Castaneda (45), both of Eustis, Florida, with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. If convicted, each faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years, up to life, in federal prison.
