News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Marvin Gillespie, 62, of Bluefield, West Virginia, was sentenced to six months in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., at a hearing today said the committee must focus on pursuing policies that will boost incomes and create good-paying jobs for all Americans. The hearing, “Jobs and a Healthy Economy," focused on charting an agenda for the Finance Committee that would bolster the U.S. economy and ensure all Americans share in the recovery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - Barrett Lancaster Brown, 33, who has been associated with the hacking group, Anonymous, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to serve a total of 63 months in federal prison and pay $890,250 in restitution, following his guilty pleas last year to three separate offenses. The announcement was made this afternoon by John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas (NDTX).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant KUN SUP SONG, age 57, was sentenced yesterday by Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood in the District Court of Guam, to serve five years of probation with conditions to include eight months...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: Texarkana, Arkansas - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Cletus Davis, age 39, of Hot Springs, was sentenced today to 70 months imprisonment and three years of supervised release on two counts of Distribution of a Controlled Substance, Crack Cocaine. The sentencing took place before the Honorable Susan O. Hickey in the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas in Texarkana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: MISSOULA - After being convicted at trial, two additional defendants have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in an international child pornography network operated online, which was targeted by state and federal investigators and prosecutors participating in Operation Kingdom Conqueror.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jacob Shamp, 23, and Ashlee Cook, 24, both of Leichester, NY, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with recruiting an underage girl to commit a commercial sex act and conspiracy to do so. The charges carry a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General Eric Holder announced today the appointment of United States Attorney John F. Walsh for the District of Colorado as chair of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee of United States Attorneys (AGAC). Attorney General Holder also appointed United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian for the Northern District of New York to serve as vice chair. Both appointments are effective immediately.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: PARSIPPANY, N.J. - Workers were unprepared to respond to an accidental release of dangerous chlorine gas, leading to the evacuation and emergency medical treatment for several employees at Zimmer TMT's plant in Parsippany, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Ville Platte man was sentenced to 46 months in prison for taking part in an armed robbery of a St. Landry Parish truck stop casino in which more than $11,000 was taken.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANDREW AVILES, 27, of New London, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: The application deadline for Haleakalā National Park's 'Imi i ka Lama Collegiate Internship Program is Friday, February 6, 2015. All applications and required documents must be received by 4:00 p.m. in order to be considered.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: Northeast Regional Director Mike Caldwell has selected Stephen Clark to be superintendent of the National Parks of Western Pennsylvania, which include the Flight 93 National Memorial, Johnstown Flood National Memorial, Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, Fort Necessity National Battlefield and Friendship Hill National Historic Site.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Gina.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A group of 13 community leaders representing government and the bank, security and media industries formed the second cohort of U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)-sponsored Citizens Academy Thursday. The participants join a group of 10 citizens who graduated last year and became the first graduates of an HSI Academy in the nation.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 22, 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 Examining Job-Based Health Insurance and Defining Full-Time Work. In her opening statement, Murray criticized the Republican proposal...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following the State of the Union Address on Tuesday, January 20 in which President Obama highlighted the surge in U.S. manufacturing and the strong growth in the auto industry, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz today announced more than $55 million to develop and deploy cutting-edge vehicle...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - Following a 25-day trial in U.S. District Court that began on Nov. 3, 2014, a jury convicted Barbara Lang, a.k.a. “Aunt Bea," 60, of Rossville, Ga., of conspiring to illegally distribute controlled substances (oxycodone and Xanax) at Superior One Pain Clinic and Primary Care Pain Clinic, two pain management clinics owned and operated by Lang.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: Washington - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) sent a letter Thursday to urge President Obama to name a permanent inspector general for the Department of Veterans Affairs. The VA has had only an acting inspector general for more than a year. Sen. Johnson, chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (HSGAC), expressed his willingness to work with the president and he urged the president to nominate someone to the position.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - An Andover man pleaded guilty today to stealing more than $149,000 in government benefits.
