News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A California man who was convicted on federal methamphetamine trafficking charges in Kansas was sentenced Friday to 146 months in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House and Senate leaders today joined together to sign S.1, the Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Act. The bill will soon head to the president’s desk. Upon completion of the bill’s enrollment ceremony, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following column...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - James Izlar, 37, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to charges stemming from the sexual abuse of two girls at a residence where they were staying in Southeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced today that United States District Court Judge Rudolph T. Randa sentenced Milwaukee native and former Sheboygan resident Jason Guidry (age: 33) to 25 years imprisonment following Guidry’s conviction on three sex-trafficking counts and one count of possession with the intent to distribute heroin. The sex-trafficking counts involved three separate females.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Henry Fiorentino was sentenced to 22 years in prison by United States District Judge John Gleeson. Fiorentino was convicted after a two-week jury trial in November 2014 of conspiring to commit Hobbs Act robberies and conspiring to distribute cocaine and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Local Man Downloaded Child Pornography. PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK - Robert Girard, 56, of Massena, New York, was sentenced to 84 months in prison for receipt of child pornography yesterday in United States District Court in Utica, New York, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Homeland...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Jose Luis Martinez, age 37, of Rogers, was sentenced today to 70 months imprisonment and three years of supervised release on one count of Distribution of Methamphetamine plus 15 months...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Escape from Custody was sentenced on February 4, 2015, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: Earlier this week, the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing looking back at the Tax Reform Act of 1986. Senator Bill Bradley, who was at the center of that reform effort, was kind enough to be one of the witnesses. And the hearing raised in my mind a discussion that Senator Bradley and I have had several times over the years. It’s that comprehensive tax reform is completely, entirely, hopelessly impossible -- right up until the moment it happens.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment today against Mark McLeod Wygant, 44, resident of Chico, charging him with Sexual Exploitation and Attempted Sexual Exploitation of Minors, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: “I really felt strongly that, in that committee room, we should be inspired by those we serve, not inspired by past committee chairmen."
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 LOS ANGELES – Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson today traveled to Los Angeles where he met with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck and other government ...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: Four Year Commitment in Farm Bill Funding to Improve Additional Habitat Audio WASHINGTON, Feb.12, 2015 –The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) today issued a report showing that since 2010 USDA and its partners in the Sage Grouse Initiative (SGI) have worked with private landowners to restore ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: A U.S. citizen charged in connection with the operation of a series of fraudulent business opportunities was extradited from Costa Rica to the United States, the Justice Department announced today. John White was charged in a Nov. 29, 2011, indictment in the Southern District of Florida with conspiracy ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has entered into a consent decree with the state of Maryland and the Queen Anne’s County Sheriff. If approved by the court, the settlement will resolve Murphy-Taylor v. State of Maryland, et al., a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit in which the United States intervened in Feb. 2013. The United States previously entered into a consent decree with Queen Anne’s County in May 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: A former bank president was charged today for his role in a bank fraud scheme in which he is alleged to have hidden underperforming and at-risk loans from the bank and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), among others, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: Three oyster harvesters and dealers, an employee and a related business were sentenced yesterday in federal court in Camden, New Jersey. Todd Reeves, Thomas Reeves, Renee Reeves, of Port Norris, New Jersey, and their oyster dealer company, Shellrock LLC, were sentenced for their roles in creating false ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: First Criminal Prosecution in the United States For Campaign Finance Coordination between Political Committees A campaign finance manager and political consultant pleaded guilty today in the Eastern District of Virginia for coordinating $325,000 in federal election campaign contributions by a political ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: A Memphis, Tennessee, man was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for the sex trafficking of a 16-year-old girl, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III of the Western District of Tennessee and Special Agent in Charge Todd McCall of the FBI’s Memphis Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that California-based C.R. Laurence Co. Inc., Florida-based Southeastern Aluminum Products Inc. and Texas-based Waterfall Group LLC have agreed to pay $2,300,000, $650,000 and $100,000, respectively, to resolve a lawsuit brought by the United States under the ...
