News from January 2015
By DOL Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, Ill. - A 24-year-old newly hired worker suffered multiple fractures when his leg and foot became entangled in a running mechanical auger while in a grain storage bin at Grainco FS Inc. in Newark. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigated the July...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 276 months in prison for his involvement in a 24-hour crime spree in five separate shore-area towns that involved the shooting of a cab driver and a number of armed robberies, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Kristyn Elizabeth Fetcko, 34, of Wheeling, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for selling oxycodone while employed as a guidance counselor at Ritchie Elementary School, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Mark Allen Daves, 51, of Tensed, Idaho, pleaded guilty today to assault, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Daves was charged by an information filed by the U.S. Attorney on January 6, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Joshua Buerman, 27, of Williamson, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to import and distribute more than 15 kilograms of methylone, a Schedule I controlled substance, was sentenced to 108 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - JALIL AL-HANOOSH was sentenced to 15 months in prison on charges involving his scheme to buy food stamps from people for a discounted rate of cash, and redeem them at full value from the government. He additionally allowed customers to purchase ineligible items, such as cigarettes, telephones, rugs and other non-food items for food stamps.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced, DESMOND SIMPSON, 29, of Wilmington, to 189 months of imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: The Election Assistance Commission (EAC) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are sponsoring a two-day symposium to explore emerging trends in voting. The symposium will take place Feb. 9 and 10, 2015, at the Department of Commerce's Herbert C. Hoover Building in Washington, D.C.
By State Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Ranking Member, introduced the Trafficking Prevention in Foreign Affairs Contracting Act (H.R. 400), an anti-trafficking measure to ensure U.S. tax dollars do not support human trafficking among the thousands of foreign workers the U.S. government employs overseas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Harris County resident Maria Eliza Garza has been ordered to prison following her conviction in conspiring to defraud seven different Houston-area banks or more than $2 million in 2007 and 2008, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Garza pleaded guilty Sept. 4, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that an indictment has been returned against Daniel Edward Palmer (37, Port Charlotte), charging him with one count of distribution of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: The active fire situation in the lower half of Buffalo National River appears to be slowing down at present. All four fires are 100% contained with the smaller ones burned out. Monitoring is continuing as needed to insure that there are no flare-ups and wind-driven surprises. As of this release, over 800 person-hours have been dedicated to responding to these fires.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A man from Park City, Kan., was sentenced Wednesday to 165 months in federal prison for distributing child pornography to young boys over the Internet, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Ocean County, New Jersey, attorney was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for his role in a scheme that defrauded investors in connection with a Facebook IPO and several real estate deals, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) announced the Democratic subcommittee assignments for the 114th Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Kristen Rachele Davis, 24, of Beaver, West Virginia, pleaded guilty in federal court to distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that FREDERICK WILLIAMS, age 42, of Kenner, was sentenced today for possessing and attempting to pass counterfeit U.S. currency.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: (Nancy Stein Operated American Screw and Rivet Corporation Which is also Sentenced).
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 21, 2015 - Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01) today announced senior Republican staff for the House Natural Resources Committee in the 114th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Two West Virginia residents were convicted in federal court today on drug trafficking charges, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
