News from January 2015
By USDA Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson today made the following statement after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that more than 23,000 dairy operations, or more than half of U.S. dairy farms, have enrolled in the Dairy Margin Protection Program. Peterson advocated for the program’s inclusion in the 2014 Farm Bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Simone Nicole Gary, 36, of Houston, has been ordered to federal prison following her convictions of mail and Social Security fraud in relation to the submission of fraudulent claims to the American Kidney Fund (AKF), announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. She pleaded guilty Aug. 11, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 60 months of imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release, on his conviction of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: OAKLAND - Starkisha Benson was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Friday, Jan. 9, 2015, for conspiring to file false claims and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Melinda Haag and IRS-CI Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation Division Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez, announced.
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, today announced the formation of the Educational Opportunities Civil Rights Working Group to address civil rights violations...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: Facebook flagged illegal image downloaded by Navy Petty Officer.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: Wright Brothers National Memorial will waive entry fees on Monday, Jan. 19, 2015 in recognition of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.Wright Brothers National Memorial will join nearly 400 other national park sites across the country in celebration of this special day as part of an effort to encourage visitors to experience the wonders of their national parks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DEBORAH DUFFY, the former Chief Compliance Officer of WG Trading Company, LP (“WG Trading"), was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to time served in prison for conspiracy, securities fraud, and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: A 30-count federal indictment was unsealed charging 13 people with participating in a multi-state conspiracy to distribute heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine, a conspiracy which was controlled by an inmate inside an Ohio prison, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: Identity victims included elderly medical patients.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Lonnell McCarter, 39, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by United States District Judge William B. Shubb to 13 years and one month in prison for participating in a sex trafficking venture that involved a child prostitute, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. After his release, McCarter will be subject to supervision for an additional twenty years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that two former University of South Dakota football players convicted of Conspiracy to Defraud the United States and Aggravated Identity Theft were sentenced on Jan. 12, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: Public Affairs. COSME LOPEZ. Telephone: 602.514.7694. Mobile: 602.686-8614. Cosme.Lopez@usdoj.gov. WWW.JUSTICE.GOV/USAO/AZ. GILA RIVER MAN SENTENCED TO 18 YEARS IN PRISON FOR MURDER. PHOENIX - On Jan. 12, 2015, Christian Kisto Vela, 22, a member of the Gila River Indian Community, was sentenced by U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - The results of the January 2015 Federal Grand Jury were announced today by Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: BISMARCK - U. S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Jan. 12, 2015, Michael John Schell, 44, Williston, N.D., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on a charge of possession of firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon. Judge Hovland sentenced Schell to serve seven years in federal prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Schell was ordered to pay a $100 special assessment to the Crime Victim’s Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - An Allegheny County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that the Honorable Laurie Smith Camp, Chief United States District Court Judge sentenced Cossi Deguenon and Micheline Bolarywa to time served after they pled guilty to fraud related charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON, Texas - Richard Arthur Evans, M.D., 70, and David D. Devido, R.Ph., 76, both of Houston, have been charged in a 24-count indictment alleging a conspiracy to commit distribution of controlled substances, mail fraud, health care fraud and money laundering, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - The owner of a plastics recycling company in El Dorado pleaded guilty Monday to mishandling waste chemicals and agreed to pay more than $118,000 in restitution to the Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom.
By State Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-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...
