News from July 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas man, Jose de Jesus Galicia-Fuentes, was sentenced yesterday afternoon by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to 188 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in September 2014 to one count of receipt of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott S. Allen, Jr., who handled the case, stated that in October 2011, the defendant was pulled over for a secondary inspection at the Lewiston Queenston Port of Entry. Dattmore indicated he was refused entry into Canada because of items on his laptop computer. A search of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Lafayette man pleaded guilty Thursday to using telephone masking technology to harass his ex-wife.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Joseph Shepherd and United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Mexican national was sentenced to 64 months in prison for possessing heroin with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron J. Mango, who is handling the case, stated that the defendant operated a produce farm in Wilson, NY. In August 2014, Canfield placed a meat pile that had been mixed with Golden Malrin fly bait at the edge of a cornfield on his farm in an attempt to kill coyotes. The fly bait contained Methomyl, which is an insecticide that is not to be used in a manner in which animals can eat it.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Canada must agree to significantly expand market access for dairy products from the United States in any Trans Pacific Partnership deal, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, wrote to Canadian Ambassador Gary Doer today.
By State Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: Series of hearings begins. Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that on Wednesday, July 29 the Committee will convene a hearing to examine ISIS’s violence against women. The hearing, entitled “Women Under ISIS Rule: From Brutality to Recruitment,...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE) spoke on the Senate floor yesterday in support of the Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy (DRIVE) Act, a six year highway bill that benefits Nebraskans and keeps our nation moving by making our transportation system safer and more ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, chaired by U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), will hold a hearing next week on several issues, including the Federal Radionavigation Plan, the Foreign Spill Protection Act of 2015, and the National Icebreaker Fund Act of 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Florida man has been sentenced in federal court for his role in a multi-million dollar, multi-state conspiracy to transport hundreds of thousands of cartons of contraband cigarettes from the Kansas City, Mo., area to the state of New York, where they were sold primarily on Indian reservations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on July 15, 2015, a federal grand jury in Hartford returned a six-count indictment charging MARCUS FOX, 41, of Waterbury, with filing false tax returns.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT)) released the following statement in response to the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) opinion on Inspector General (IG) access to documents...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - On Thursday, July 23, 2015, Herman McGee, Jr. entered a guilty plea before District Judge Sul Ozerden, in a case involving conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute over 500 grams of cocaine and conspiracy to possess a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, U. S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing its work to protect jobs and the economy from the EPA’s looming ozone rule, the Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), will host a roundtable discussion on Tuesday, July 28, 2015 from 2pm - 3pm in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The public roundtable will feature leading stakeholders including local officials.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was charged in District Court in Springfield yesterday with conspiracy and aggravated identity fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: A Clay County man was sentenced to federal prison on methamphetamine charges, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: Hid more than a half a million dollars of income.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Several area men have been charged with distribution of heroin resulting in an overdose death, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today. The five men are named in three separate indictments, returned on July 21 and unsealed a day later, relating to the January 2015 fatal overdoses of two men and one woman. Court documents do not list the names of the deceased.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that a grand jury in Bridgeport returned an indictment yesterday charging five West Haven residents with federal offenses stemming from an investigation of an explosion and homicide that occurred in Hamden on July 4, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - Brenda Ward, 47, of Cedar Hill, Texas, appeared in federal court this morning before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater and pleaded guilty to one count of health care fraud, announced John Parker, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
