News from January 2015
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: The Obed Wild and Scenic River will be hosting a small mammal children's program at the Obed Visitor Center, located at 208 North Maiden Street in downtown Wartburg on Saturday, January 24. This free event will begin at 1 p.m. (EST), and no reservations are necessary. This program is for children from...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Nearly $900,000 of forfeited funds have been paid towards financial losses suffered by the Beaumont Independent School District (BISD), announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Stephen B. Gray, 57, of Houston, has been sentenced to federal prison following his conviction for securities fraud in an insider trading scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Gray pleaded guilty Sept. 26, 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of January 19. The committee will continue its work to ensure open Internet protections for consumers, discuss solutions to #KeepthePromise and protect seniors’ access to Medicare physicians, and consider the next steps for coal ash regulation.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement regarding CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner’s announcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA- On Jan. 16, 2015, Harrison Sean Summers, age 23, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to two concurrent terms of 30 months imprisonment, after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute marijuana and false statements to a federal grand...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: BISMARCK - U. S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Jan. 16 2015, Johnathan Edward Holiday, 40, Reno, Nevada, was sentenced before U. S. District Judge Daniel L Hovland to serve five years in prison for possession of materials involving the sexual exploitation of minors.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: SEATTLE - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is proposing a $390,000 civil penalty against Horizon Air Industries of SeaTac, Wash., for allegedly operating Bombardier DHC-8 aircraft that were not in compliance with Federal Aviation Regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Fourteen Charged in Connection with Lewiston Drug Arrests.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Steven Phelps (40, Sarasota) to 15 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 24, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - United States Magistrate Judge Bruce McGiverin authorized a criminal complaint against Carlos Manuel Colón-Velàzquez, a 65-year old resident of Coamo for production of child pornography and attempted production of child pornography, following an investigation lead by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), announced United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Kirsten Flynn Hawkins Admits To Stealing Money From Investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Mexican citizen residing in Illinois at the time of her arrest, was sentenced to 11 months in prison today in Scranton by United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani for interstate travel in aid of a drug trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, announced the sentencing of Pedro Rodríguez-Colondres to 18 months in prison by United States District Court Judge Francisco A. Besosa. Rodríguez-Colondres pled guilty to Theft of Government Funds in violation of 18 USC 641. As part of the sentencing the defendant was ordered to pay the US Department of Veteran’s Affairs $550,849.92 in restitution.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: As part of a landmark settlement agreement announced by Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell in November 2014, the Bureau of Land Management today canceled 17 of the 19 leases on top of the Roan Plateau. The settlement agreement included refunding approximately $47.6 million in bonus bids and annual...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Peabody man was indicted yesterday on child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell has sentenced Nicholas Quinton Hanson (23, Lakeland) to five years and ten months in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of ammunition. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 1, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 28-year-old Fresno, California resident pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Karoline Mehalchick in Scranton, to possessing with intent to distribute more than one kilogram of heroin.
