News published on Federal Newswire in January 2015

News from January 2015


News Release: National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. Yellowstone National Park. P.O. Box 168. Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190. Jan. 20, 2015 15-004. Al Nash. (307) 344-2015. YELL_Public_Affairs@nps.gov. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK NEWS RELEASE. Yellowstone Reminds News Crews, Film Crews And Still...


Levin Statement on State of the Union Address

News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement regarding President Obama's State of the Union address...


News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Timothy Earl Wilson, 46, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.


Bogalusa Chiropractor Pleads Guilty To Health Care Fraud

News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DAVID LEE KILLEN, age 43, a resident of Covington, pled guilty today to a one-count Bill of Information for health care fraud. KILLEN admitted to fraudulently billing health care insurance plans for chiropractic and other services that were not rendered or were otherwise unauthorized.


News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Kevin Robert Leblanc (52, Tampa) to four years in federal prison for failing to register as sex offender after absconding from supervision in Florida and traveling to Arizona. He was also ordered to serve a 15-year term of supervised release. Leblanc has been in custody for violating the conditions of his federal supervised release since his arrest in August 2014.


News Release: BOISE, Idaho - Christopher Deleongurro Snyder, 24, of Boise, Idaho, became the latest member of a Treasure Valley oxycodone and heroin distribution ring to be sentenced to federal prison. U.S. District Court Judge Edward J. Lodge sentenced Snyder on Jan. 14, 2015, to 87 months in prison followed by...


Chicago Man Sentenced To 15 Months In Prison For Violating U.S. Sanctions Against Zimbabwe President Mugabe And Others

News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man was sentenced today to 15 months in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to violate U.S. sanctions by agreeing to assist Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and others in an effort to lift economic sanctions against Zimbabwe. Between late 2008 and early 2010, the defendant...


New Haven Man Involved In Marriage Fraud Scheme Is Sentenced

News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SYED NAQSHBAND, 33, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford...


Defendant Sentenced for Role in $65 Million Stolen Identity Income Tax Refund Fraud Scheme

News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A North Carolina man was sentenced today to three years of probation and ordered to pay more than $750,000 in restitution for role in one of the nation’s largest and longest running stolen identity refund fraud schemes ever prosecuted, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.


Lowell Kids Week 2015

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Americus Man Pleads Guilty To Producing Child Pornography

News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia announced that Douglas Roseth, 23, of Americus, Georgia entered a plea of guilty on Jan. 20, 2015 to one count of production of child pornography before the Honorable Clay D. Land, U.S. District Court Judge, in Columbus, Georgia.


News Release: HOUSTON - Carlos Lavin Ibarra, 34, of Houston, has been sentenced to federal prison following his conviction on one count of bank fraud, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Ibarra pleaded guilty July 9, 2014.


Former Store Owner Pleads Guilty To Drug Charge

News Release: Rochester, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Charles Fitzgerald, 39, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison, a fine of $2,000,000 or both.


News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that Robert M. Faiella, a/k/a “BTCKing," an underground Bitcoin exchanger, was sentenced today to four years in prison for his role in knowingly transmitting nearly $1 million in Bitcoins...


Sioux Falls Man Sentenced For Making Counterfeit Currency

News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Making Counterfeit Currency was sentenced on Jan. 16, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.


News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - El Departamento de Justicia anunció hoy que conjuntamente con la Ciudad de Albuquerque, ha presentado ante el Tribunal de Distrito de los Estados Unidos, el nombramiento del Dr. James R. Ginger, experto reconocido a nivel nacional en reforma policial y cambio administrativo, como monitor...


News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that SHANTELL WASHINGTON, age 43, of Independence, was sentenced today after having previously pled guilty to one count of misprision of a felony.


Natchez Trace Parkway Reports Single Motor Vehicle Accident with Fatality

News Release: Williamson County, TN - On Jan. 18, 2015 at approximately 2:22 p.m., Natchez Trace Communications received notification of a single motor vehicle accident near milepost 441.5 near the northern terminus of the Parkway.U.S. Park Rangers, Williamson County Sheriff's Deputies, and the Tennessee Highway Patrol responded to the scene.


Eagle Butte Man Indicted On Drug Charges

News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance.


News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that three southern Missouri residents were indicted by a federal grand jury today in separate and unrelated cases of sexual child exploitation. USA v. Penn. Chelese Penn...