News from January 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 29, 2015 - House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01) today issued the following statement upon Senate passage of legislation approving the Keystone XL Pipeline.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned three indictments today, separately charging three men with trafficking methamphetamine, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Assistant United States Attorney Jason S. Hitt is prosecuting the cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Richard Canterbury, 50, of Lewisburg, West Virginia, pleaded guilty to abusive sexual contact involving a ward.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. FRANCISCO ILLARRAMENDI, 45, formerly of New Canaan, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 156 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: MIDLAND, Texas - - In Midland and Odessa this morning, authorities arrested 23 individuals on federal drug and firearms charges announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, El Paso Division, and Midland Police Chief Price Robinson.
By State Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement in response to reports that one of the “Taliban 5" is suspected of re-engaging in terrorist activity...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Marc Tapia, 45, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Tapia will be sentenced to 15 years in federal prison due to his status as an armed career criminal.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - Special Agent in Charge, James P. Shroba announced that Abbe L. Terry, 51, of East Alton, Illinois, and Jacklyn McCormack, 26, of Belleville, Illinois, were sentenced this week in the United States District Court in East Saint Louis for illegally obtaining controlled substances by fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jermell Simpson, 31, of Columbus, Ohio, and Mario Walton, 33, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, were sentenced today for distributing crack cocaine, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today voted to approve legislation authorizing the cross-border permit for constriction of the Keystone XL pipeline. This legislation passed the Senate by a bipartisan vote of 62-36.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) delivered remarks at a committee hearing on Employer Wellness Programs: Better Health Outcomes and Lower Costs. In her opening statement, Murray highlighted that wellness programs...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: Renata Nicole Annese stole over $800,000.00 in a credit card fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: Urbana, Ill. - A Kankakee, Ill., man, David Aaron Neblock, 37, entered pleas of guilty today to possession with intent to distribute more than 100 marijuana plants; filing false income tax returns; and making a false statement to a bank, as announced by U.S. Attorney Jim Lewis, Central District of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - A federal court jury deliberated only about three hours today before finding IVAN BENNETT WILLIS, 22, from Choctaw, Mississippi, guilty of aggravated sexual abuse in Indian Country, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Building on President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, the Energy Department announced today that more than 20 new partners have committed to improving energy efficiency across their respective building portfolios by 20 percent over the next ten years. These new partners, including the 6 multifamily...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Obinna Gregory Okoro, 25, of Houston, has been ordered to prison after conspiring to use personal identifiers of victims to create fake bank accounts online, link those accounts to existing bank accounts and drain them of the funds, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Okoro pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to commit bank fraud, one count of engaging in computer fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft Sept. 3, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: Victim's Images Shared Online, Identified in Thousands of Cases Nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A native of Romania who was arrested in Sweden and extradited to the United States admitted today to directing a large-scale scheme that stole bank account information through a process commonly referred to as “ATM skimming," in which conspirators secretly installed card-reading devices on ATMs throughout New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Florida, and elsewhere, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Charles Edward Elliott and Nicholas Krug, both of Mountain Home, Arkansas, were sentenced today on one count of Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud. Elliot, 81 years old was sentenced to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015. Follow @SDILNews. Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, along with David E. Talcott, Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service/Criminal...
