News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Eugene Harvey, a former baggage handler for Delta Air Lines, has been arraigned on federal charges of conspiring to carry dangerous weapons on an aircraft, firearms trafficking, and illegally entering an airport area to evade security and commit crimes. Harvey was indicted by a federal grand jury on Feb. 18, 2015.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Following Tuesday’s hearing on the 2014 Farm Bill implementation, where both agricultural producers and Senators expressed concern about deadlines for producers to make decisions for commodity programs, U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, is pleased the U.S. Department of Agriculture heard these concerns and extended the February 27 deadline.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Michael Kemp, 37, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography, was sentenced to 10 years in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara. In addition, the defendant was sentenced to four months in prison for violating his supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: Lynn Jenkins Op-Ed: Time to boost-not tax-college-saving plans.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today issued the following statement in response to the administration’s privacy proposal.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Orlando Roberts, 46, of Washington D.C., was sentenced today to 37 ½ years in prison for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl within months after he got out of prison for a similar attack, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: Former U.S. Army Lt. Colonel and two other co-defendants also sentenced to prison for roles in the scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Alexy Diaz, 31, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of possession of a firearm by an armed career criminal, was sentenced to 100 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that four men pleaded guilty to federal drug charges in Bluefield.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Richard Mosquera Mosquera (44, Colombia, South America) to 11 years and 3 months in federal prison for conspiring with others to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, knowing and intending that it would be unlawfully imported into the United States. He pleaded guilty on Nov. 25, 2014.
By State Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement at a markup of HR 757, the North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act of 2015, which was approved unanimously by the committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Prince Jones, 31, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 66 years in prison for a series of crimes, including two armed sexual assaults of women he met through online advertisements, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - The owner of a home nursing agency was sentenced yesterday to 92 months in prison for fraudulently billing millions of dollars of services to Medicare and then laundering the proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging John Francis Songer (44, DeBary) with eight felony counts of theft from an employee benefit plan. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison on each count.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan today sentenced Christopher Richard Cloonan (45, Jacksonville) to life in federal prison for using a minor child to produce images depicting child pornography. The Court also ordered Cloonan to serve a life term of supervised release...
By State Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously passed H.R. 757, the North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act. The legislation, authored by the Committee’s Chairman, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), and Ranking Member, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), strengthens U.S. sanctions against North Korea. Similar legislation passed the House last year, but was not acted on by the Senate.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Yolanda Castro, 45, a Fresno employee of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, was arrested today following her indictment by a federal grand jury on Feb. 26, 2015, on 10 counts of tax fraud and making false statements to a government agency, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Huerta will testify at an Aviation Subcommittee hearing next week on reauthorization of the agency and ensuring a modern U.S. aviation system.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing to examine Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) issues related to small and rural drinking water utilities. Many smaller and rural communities face significant challenges in replacing, maintaining, and upgrading aging and drinking water infrastructure along with added costs and burdens of meeting new regulatory requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Hill City, South Dakota, woman convicted of Passport Application Fraud was sentenced on Feb. 20, 2015, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
