News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that two North Carolina men pleaded guilty to distribution of crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: Judge Influenced The Outcome Of Two Municipal Court Cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-Thirteen commercial fishermen in North Carolina and Georgia have been charged in federal court in Raleigh, North Carolina, for their role in the illegal harvest and sale, and false reporting of approximately 90,000 pounds of Atlantic striped bass from federal waters off the coast of North Carolina during 2009 and 2010, the Justice Department announced today. The average retail value of the illegally harvested Striped Bass is approximately $1.1 million dollars.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today continued its multiyear efforts to find a permanent and workable solution for coal ash management and disposal, building off of the subcommittee’s negotiations and legislative work in previous...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation yesterday held hearings on draft legislation to protect consumers and the Internet.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: Catoctin Mountain Park invites public comment on changes to facility use and special park use permit fees that will become effective May 1, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that ISMAEL COBIAN MENDOZA, age 42, of Tucson, Arizona, pled guilty to Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine and Marijuana, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(D).
By EPA Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation yesterday held hearings on draft legislation to protect consumers and the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A regional manager selling medical devices to hospitals for Integra LifeSciences Corp. of Plainsboro, New Jersey, was sentenced to prison today for his role in a scheme to defraud hospitals of more than $800,000, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 22, 2015
News Release: MEXICO CITY - A team of Mexican law enforcement officers participated in a three-day anti-human trafficking seminar held in Toluca, Mexico. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Attaché Office in Mexico City and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) hosted the seminar that ended Thursday.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Shabazz Sangria Wingfield, age 22, from Athens, Georgia, was sentenced today by the Honorable C. Ashley Royal, United States District Judge in Athens, Georgia. Mr. Wingfield was sentenced to 60 months imprisonment for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: David Denenberg, a practicing New York attorney and Nassau County Legislator, pleaded guilty today to defrauding a former client of over $2 million. The plea was entered before U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert at the federal courthouse in Central Islip.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - JOEY D. WOOD was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in prison for filing four false tax returns for himself and two others, claiming false tax refunds for tax years 2011 and 2012. He was also ordered to pay restitution of $185,162.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A 22-year-old apprentice ironworker fell more than 30 feet to his death while standing on a 9-inch-wide steel girder on a building under construction in Kansas City. On the job for just a few weeks, the worker was not provided fall protection by his employer, Fastrack Erectors Inc., ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 The following open letter from Secretary Johnson ran in the Spanish-language outlet, La Opinión, yesterday. Please see the English translation below.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: New Standards Could Help Prevent an Estimated 50,000 Illnesses Annually WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, 2015 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) today proposed new federal standards to reduce Salmonella and Campylobacter in ground chicken and turkey products ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: A current Puerto Rico Superior Court Judge was convicted yesterday by a federal jury in Puerto Rico of accepting bribes to acquit a businessman of vehicular homicide charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: A civil complaint was filed today in federal court in Texas against Commercial Recovery Systems Inc. (CRS), of Plano, Texas, its president, Timothy Ford, and its former vice president, David Devany, to assess civil penalties for deceptive and abusive debt collection practices, and to prevent further consumer abuse, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, U.S. Attorney Carter M. Stewart for the Southern District of Ohio and Acting Special Agent in Charge John A. Barrios of the FBI’s Cincinnati Field Division announced that a federal grand jury has charged Christopher Lee Cornell, 20, of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: Thomas R. Rodella, 53, the former Rio Arriba County Sheriff, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge James O. Browning for his conviction on criminal civil rights and firearms charges. Rodella was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for his deprivation of rights conviction and an additional ...
