News from January 2015
By State Newswire | Jan 6, 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 after Dominic Ongwen, a senior member of the Lord’s Resistance Army, was reportedly taken into custody in the Central African Republic...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A former Topeka man pleaded guilty Tuesday to Social Security fraud, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: Contact: Steve Young. A Texas man who harbored an illegal alien was sentenced today to nine months in federal prison. Roman Sanchez, age 33, from Mission, Texas, received the prison term after a Sept. 18, 2014, guilty plea to one count of harboring, encouraging, and inducing an alien to reside in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), whose onshore oil and gas program includes approximately 100,000 wells spread across public lands, today released data summarizing oil and gas permitting, leasing, drilling, and production activity for fiscal year 2014. Over the past year, the BLM provided drilling...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Quitman man was sentenced Monday to 210 months in prison for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced GLEN ALLEN STEWART, JR., 24, of Newton Grove, North Carolina, to 120 months’ imprisonment followed by three years’ supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - HUBOLIST ELLIOTT was indicted for mail fraud in connection with a real estate investment scheme involving fractional interests in vacation properties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Lancaster, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty and was sentenced in federal court to 41 months in jail on his conviction of violating federal guns laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 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 today the arrests of STEVEN KAITZ, LATCHMEE MAHATO, a/k/a “Robbie," JONATHAN WHEELER...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Four men have pleaded guilty to the armed robbery of employees who were transporting money in an armored truck, and to brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. Antonio Lamar Cooper, age 27, of Washington, D.C.; Maurice Lorenzo Foreman, age 22, of Oxon Hill, Maryland; and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - ―The Drug Enforcement (DEA) and the Delaware County Prosecutor’s Office announced today felony charges against Dr. William Hedrick, the owner of the Indiana Pain Center in Muncie who also operated several affiliated offices in northeast Indiana, and Gay Gundersen-Watson, a nurse practitioner...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Bossier Parish man was sentenced to 192 months in prison for illegally possessing multiple firearms.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx, FAA Administrator Michael Huerta, and Nicholas Calio, President and Chief Executive Officer, Airlines for America (A4A) will announce a final FAA rule that will require safety management systems (SMS) for U.S. air carriers.SMS is the formal, top-down, organization-wide approach to managing safety risk and assuring the effectiveness of safety risk controls.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Margarito Morales-Oliva, age 35, formerly of Mexico, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Richard P. Conaboy to 24 months in prison for possessing a sharpened weapon commonly referred to as a “shank.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Binghamton, New York, has been sentenced in federal court to 24 months in jail on his conviction of violating federal counterfeiting laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr., sentenced Davon Taylor, age 25, of Baltimore, today to 130 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Green Bag Co., Inc., an importer of reusable shopping bags located in San Francisco has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle allegations that it violated the civil False Claims Act by underpaying customs duties it owed, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Brian J. Humphrey, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Director of Field Operations, San Francisco.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
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By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - HUBOLIST ELLIOTT was indicted for mail fraud in connection with a real estate investment scheme involving fractional interests in vacation properties.
