News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Gregory Boone, age 30, Pittston, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik to 72 months in prison for conspiring with others to recruit, harbor, and transport minor females to engage in commercial sex acts for money during the summer of 2013 in Luzerne and Dauphin counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: BOISE -Steven Gregory, 66, of Boise, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison and three years of supervised release for one count of bankruptcy fraud by asset concealment, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Gregory to pay $165,343 in restitution. Gregory pleaded guilty to the charge on Oct. 21, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: Stephen Fleischer, 29, of Youngstown, was charged last week with sexual exploitation of a child, transferring obscenity to a minor and transportation of a minor, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today issued a Secretarial Order calling for a comprehensive science-based strategy to address the more frequent and intense wildfires that are damaging vital sagebrush landscapes and productive rangelands, particularly in the Great Basin region of Idaho, Utah...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that two Texans were sentenced on Monday to 150 months in prison for kidnapping an Arkansas man and lying to FBI special agents.
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 CECIL VANN GILBERT, 31,of Greenville, North Carolina, to 188 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release for three counts of distribution of cocaine and one count of possession with the intent to distribute cocaine and aiding and abetting. GILBERT previously pled guilty to these charges on Oct. 16, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - 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...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Matthew D. Renner, 35, of Columbus, Nebraska, was sentenced on January 5, 2015, to 212 months in prison by United States District Judge Laurie Smith Camp. Renner had previously pled guilty for his involvement in distributing methamphetamine in the Columbus area dating back to the summer of 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: Defendant Faces at least Two Years in Federal Prison for Aggravated ID Theft.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today released a report chronicling the accomplishments of the committee in the 113th Congress. The report also previews a number of the committee’s priorities for the 114th Congress. The end of session review continues...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today released a report chronicling the accomplishments of the committee in the 113th Congress. The report also previews a number of the committee’s priorities for the 114th Congress. The end of session review continues...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Rupert Morgan has been sentenced to two years, and three months in federal prison for theft of VA and Social Security funds paid to a beneficiary who died in 1997.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today released a report chronicling the accomplishments of the committee in the 113th Congress. The report also previews a number of the committee’s priorities for the 114th Congress. The end of session review continues...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, Reps. Elijah E. Cummings, John Conyers Jr., and Bennie G. Thompson, Ranking Members of the House Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, the Judiciary, and Homeland Security, issued a joint statement reiterating their request for a series of in-depth hearings into the issues raised by the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and others, as well as the role Congress can play in implementing broader criminal justice reform.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Three brothers and their sister, all from Washington, D.C., were sentenced today to prison terms for a pair of robberies that took place within a 36-hour period of a convenience store in Montgomery County, Md. and a bank in the District of Columbia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: William S. Burnett, 59, of Lakewood, Ohio, was charged last week with receiving, distributing and possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Tuesday, January 6, 2015. Follow @SDILNews. Deldrick L. Spence, 28, from Cairo, Illinois, was sentenced on January 5, 2015, in United States District Court in East St. Louis, Illinois, on one count of unlawful possession of a...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) issued the statement below on the Keystone tar sands pipeline.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 5, 2015
News Release: The Southeast Utah Group of the National Park Service (Arches and Canyonlands national parks and Hovenweep and Natural Bridges national monuments) is joining national parks across the country in waiving entrance fees several days in 2015 as a way to encourage people to get outdoors and spend time with their friends and family in the national parks this year.
