News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Everett, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of trafficking in counterfeit goods, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: The Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE) and the Federal Smart Grid Task Force have facilitated a multi-stakeholder process to develop a Voluntary Code of Conduct (VCC) for utilities and third parties that addresses privacy related to data enabled by smart grid technologies. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An Orange County man who admitted targeting dozens of doctors and others in schemes that promised large returns on investments in the medical and dental fields and caused victims to lose more than $2 million was sentenced today to 57 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Dr. Robert Timothy Hogan II, 33, of Coolsville, Ohio, was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Katherine Noelle Nash, age 27, of Burtonsville, Maryland, today to eight years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for transporting and possessing child pornography. Judge Chasanow ordered that upon her release...
By State Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a briefing TOMORROW to examine United States policy towards North Korea in the wake of its state-sanctioned cyberattack on the U.S. The briefing entitled, “The North Korean Threat: Nuclear, Missiles and Cyber, " will begin at 10:00 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Benjamin Schrad, a former soldier stationed at Fort Rucker, was sentenced Friday, January 9, 2015, to six years in prison for manslaughter. Schrad’s sentence follows his conviction in federal court for the 2011 death of his four-year old daughter.
By State Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Ranking Member, issued the following statement on the State Department’s disclosure of the names of the 53 political prisoners the Cuban government committed to releasing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: WILMINGTON - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced today that a jury convicted RANDOLPH JOHNSON SPAIN, 25of Wilmington, North Carolina, of two counts of interstate transportation of a person(s) with the intent that person(s) engage in prostitution. The jury returned its verdict following a trial in federal court before United States District Judge James C. Fox.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: Grand Teton National Park experienced record numbers in 2014 for both total visitation and recreational visits, according to final statistics tallied for the year. Over 4.29 million people entered the park during the year, with over 2.79 million of those making a recreational excursion. Visitation peaked...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: BISMARCK - U. S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Jan. 12, 2015, Ronald Keith Edwards Gibbons, 28, Williston, N.D., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on two counts of possession of firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon. Judge Hovland sentenced Gibbons to serve seven...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: Join the National Park Service at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge visitor center to see the winners of the 2014 Gateway National Recreation Area Photo Contest. The show's opening reception will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. on Jan 24 and provide visitors a chance to see the winning images and meet the photographers. The show will continue through the end of March.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska B U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that an Anchorage man was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Timothy M. Burgess to serve 262 months in federal prison for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy that led to the death of a young woman.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A former insurance agent in Wichita was sentenced Monday to 42 months in federal prison for stealing from his clients, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr., announced today that Gregory Magness, 66, of Polk, PA, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to smuggle and conspiracy to commit money laundering before Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years, and a $250,000...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: Jan. 12, 2015BOS 2015-007. SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Workers doing renovation at the former Dye Works at 15 Cottage St. in Easthampton faced potentially fatal falls of up to 40 feet because their employers failed to provide proper protection, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: CINCINNATI - Shane E. Bowlin, 39, of Hamilton, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 195 months in prison for bank robbery, attempted bank robbery and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: Kenyen R. Brown, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama announced that Brian O’Keith Jackson, a twice-convicted felon, age 31, of Eight Mile, Alabama, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Callie V.S. Granade to 81 months imprisonment for possessing cocaine on April ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: He was a child pornography file sharer on a peer-to-peer network.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, Jan. 12, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Acting Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, today announced...
