News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: Darren Olson, 27, of Rock Springs, Wyoming, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on January 8, 2015, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, heroin. Olson was arrested in Rock Springs, Wyoming. He received 41 months imprisonment, to...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - PETER GIAMBALVO was sentenced to 16 months in prison for filing false tax returns from 2003-2010.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced that ELFEGO BOYD, a/k/a “Kush da Dawn," 29, of the Bronx, New York, was sentenced...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Archie Poole, age 38, of Denver, Colorado, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge William J. Martinez to serve 130 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, U.S. Attorney John Walsh...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Nathan Isen, 61, of Villanova, PA, was charged today by information with one count of money laundering, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the information, Isen sold 12 pieces of art work in exchange for $20,000 in cash, for the purpose of laundering the $20,000 which he understood to be proceeds from the sale of marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: Savannah, GA: Derrick Andre Fullmer, 27, of Pooler, Georgia, was indicted this week by a federal grand jury sitting in Savannah on charges related to a conspiracy involving the illegal possession and distribution of the controlled substance MDMA, more commonly known as “ecstasy" or “molly." Fullmer was...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that LEONARD MARCHETTA, a physician’s assistant, pled guilty in Manhattan federal court to conspiring to distribute a massive quantity of oxycodone out of a Staten Island-based medical clinic he oversaw.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Jerry H. Harvey, Jr., 51, of Oceana, West Virginia, was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison, followed by a three-year term of supervised release.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of President Obama’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, the Department of Energy announced today that its Illinois Basin-Decatur Project successfully captured and stored one million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) and injected it into a deep saline formation. The project is part...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that DONNA JEAN SCHAFER, age 53, of Spiro, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 150 months imprisonment, followed by 48 months of supervised release for Drug Conspiracy, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 846 and 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Chester County resident has been sentenced in federal court to 10 years imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release, on his conviction of sex trafficking of a child, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.

By Interior Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: Depending on which economist you ask, the U.S. economy grew between one and four percent in 2014. But on a local level, several small businesses that serve visitors to the Buffalo National River reported a much higher rate of growth over the past year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: A 22-count federal indictment was filed charging three individuals with conspiring to defraud states out of $233,000 in unemployment insurance benefits, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Shannon Collins, 41, of Logan, West Virginia, was sentenced to five years of probation, with a condition that she spend one year in home confinement.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: HONOLULU - After a six-day trial in United States District Court, a federal jury today found Malia Elena Arciero, age 33, guilty of one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, two counts of distribution and possession with intent to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: Government’s Evidence Shows This Is the Largest Investor Fraud Case in Oregon history.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today delivered the following remarks on the House floor in opposition to H.R. 30, the “Sabotage American Workers Act:".

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: In San Antonio today, U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia sentenced 43-year-old Raul Salazar to 70 months in federal prison followed by a 20 years of supervised release for receipt of child pornography announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Janice Ayala.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, the new chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today voted to approve legislation that would authorize the Keystone XL pipeline to cross the United States-Canadian border.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2015
News Release: Criminal Enterprise Provided Illegal Aliens and Others with Stolen Immigration Documents, Falsified Visas, Passports, Utility Bills and Bank Statements.