News from February 2015

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: Secretly Took Cell Phone Videos of Victims in Dressing Rooms, Restrooms.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Long Beach woman pleaded guilty this afternoon to federal charges of working with her son to prostitute a local runaway beginning when the girl was 15 and another young woman beginning when she was 18.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: Evansville - Josh J. Minkler, Acting United States Attorney, announced today that Jacob Roy Hammond, 23, Dover, Tennessee, was sentenced to 180 months (15 years) in prison by U.S. District Chief Judge Richard L. Young following his guilty plea to two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service Outer Banks Group Know Your Park citizen science program series continues this winter with upcoming scheduled presentations.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015. Follow @SDILNews. Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Feb. 18, 2015, Nathan Christian, 31, of Boynton Beach, FL, pled guilty...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Jimoh Babatunde Aderomilehin, age 24, of Randallstown, Maryland, today to five years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for bank fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft. Judge Bennett also ordered Aderomilehin to pay restitution of $468,534.42.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Crowley, Louisiana, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on a charges of Bank Robbery, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A River Forest man was sentenced today to 12 ½ years in federal prison for mailing and emailing threatening communications to kill Chicago area politicians and River Forest police officers, as well as oil executives in Texas and California. A jury found the defendant, RONALD HADDAD, Jr., 39...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015. Follow @SDILNews. Dillion Wayne Bailey, 30, of West Salem, Illinois, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Benton to a 14 year term of imprisonment for possessing with intent to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Samuel J. Pete, 29, of Youngstown, Ohio, and Patrick A. Groves, 24, of Wheeling, were sentenced today for distributing crack cocaine near a protected location, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - An investigation that began with a traffic stop in Utah led to a federal indictment in Kansas City, Kan., Wednesday charging five people with drug trafficking, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.

By DOL Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will hold a meeting of the Maritime Advisory Committee for Occupational Safety and Health Feb. 24-25, 2015, in Washington, D.C. Work groups will meet Feb. 24 and the full committee will meet Feb. 25.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 61-year-old Colleyville, Texas man has been sentenced to prison for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: Medicaid Overbilled Approximately $2.4 million. NORFOLK, Va. - Doretha Selby-Diggs, age 41, of Portsmouth, was sentenced today to five years in prison, followed by a three-year term of supervised release for her role in a health care fraud conspiracy. Ms. Selby-Diggs was also ordered to pay $286,650...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A McKees Rocks resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of bank robbery, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - United States Attorney Benjamin Wagner is pleased to be in attendance at a Summit on Countering Violent Extremism being hosted by the White House today in Washington, D.C. The Summit will highlight domestic and international efforts to prevent violent extremists and their supporters...

By DOE Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: The Energy and Power Subcommittee and the Environment and the Economy Subcommittee have scheduled a joint hearing for Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “The Fiscal Year 2016 EPA Budget." Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy will be the sole witness.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: CCH Admits To Misconduct And Agrees To Pay $4.9 Million To The U.S. And $1.6 Million To The State Of New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Jermel Henderson, age 38, of Gwynn Oak, Maryland, to 9 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for robbing a bank in Glen Burnie. Judge Blake also ordered Henderson to pay $1,766 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JUAN G. CHEVEREZ, also known as “Guinchi," 33, of Groton, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 77 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release for conspiring ...