News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: In Austin today, U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel sentenced 32-year-old Josh Rube to 15 years in federal prison followed by ten years of supervised release for production of child pornography announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs and Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Harris County resident Kirk Smith has been ordered to prison following his conviction for defrauding seven different Houston-area banks or more than $2 million in 2007 and 2008, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Smith pleaded guilty Oct. 9, 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: Smartphones and tablets are everywhere, which is great for communications but a growing burden on wireless channels. Forecasted huge increases in mobile data traffic call for exponentially more channel capacity. Boosting bandwidth and capacity could speed downloads, improve service quality, and enable new applications like the Internet of Things connecting a multitude of devices.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Reginald Bennett, 41, of Cedar Grove, West Virginia, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Michelle Robyn Freytag, 47, has been arrested following the return of a 20-count federal indictment alleging wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Nina Jafari, a licensed clinical social worker, 64, of Amherst, N.Y., who was convicted of health care fraud, was sentenced to 30 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: An Indictment Is A Formal Accusation Of Criminal Conduct, Not Evidence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Raymond Estrada, 35, of Corpus Christi, has been ordered to serve a significant sentence following his conviction of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and the court’s finding that he was a career offender, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson today. He pleaded guilty Nov. 3, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Edward Mighty, Seymour Brown, Andre Taylor, Ricardo Bailey, Robert Wilson, Kenneth Harper, Desmond Bice, and Christopher, all of Rochester, NY, were charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: “Blackshades" Used To Secretly And Remotely Control Victims’ Computers.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health today jointly issued a hazard alert about protecting workers from significant crystalline silica exposure during manufacturing, finishing, and installing natural and manufactured stone countertops.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement following the announcement from Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson that Joseph Clancy has been appointed as Director of the United States Secret Service...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Edward Mighty, Seymour Brown, Andre Taylor, Ricardo Bailey, Robert Wilson, Kenneth Harper, Desmond Bice, and Christopher, all of Rochester, NY, were charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Dante S. Giovannetti (50, Orlando) with five counts of wire fraud. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison on each count.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: HUNTSVILLE - A Madison County man pleaded guilty today in federal court to multiple charges of producing child pornography, some of it taken with cameras he had hidden in the bathrooms of three Huntsville-area businesses, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Raymond R. Parmer Jr., Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Sec. Spencer Collier and Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: SAN JOSE - Sharon Lynn Shaw pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to bank fraud and theft by bank officer, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and U.S. Secret Service Acting Special Agent in Charge Charles Marino.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Every day in this country, construction workers fall. One wrong step and they're tumbling down a steeply pitched roof, sliding or dropping off an unstable ladder, or left hanging from a scaffold. The difference between an unexpected stumble and tragedy is simple: fall protection.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that an Indian national pleaded guilty Tuesday to making and using altered immigration documents.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee, and Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., today joined with 19 of their Senate colleagues on a bipartisan letter to U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker encouraging the administration to authorize oil exports to Mexico under the same conditions established for exports to Canada.
