News from July 2015
By DOE Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement in opposition to a proposal to sell off 101 million barrels of oil from the nation’s emergency energy stockpiles to partially pay for the Senate highway bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: Defendants Operated a Federal Credit Union as a Captive Bank for Their Unlawful Business.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A California fugitive who shot multiple times at federal agents as they were attempting to serve an arrest warrant on him at an apartment in Las Vegas in May 2013, was sentenced today to 225 months in prison and five years of supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada and FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge for Nevada Patrick Brodsky.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Sex Trafficking by Force, Fraud, or Coercion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A citizen of the Dominican Republic was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for several crimes related to her effort to re-enter the United States with a phony passport, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Willie Jones, age 31, of Towson, Maryland, today to nine years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for two commercial robberies and for using and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. Judge Hollander also ordered Jones to pay $750 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: Received $1.2 Million in Kickbacks for Using Straw Purchasers and False Financial Information to Buy Three Dozen Baltimore Row Houses.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a committee markup on bipartisan legislation to extend certain expired tax provisions...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: Firefighters and fire-fighting resources are responding to the Reynolds Creek Wildland Fire on the east side of Glacier National Park. The fire is estimated to be approximately 800-1,000 acres.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Yinet Quintana Isalgue, 27, of Tampa, Florida, pleaded guilty today in federal court to one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Quintana Isalgue was indicted by a federal grand jury on Feb. 11, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: HAMMOND- United States Attorney David A. Capp announced today that Jasmine McMichael, 22 of East Chicago, Indiana was charged with using the threat of force against a witness.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Worcester for selling heroin and cocaine to a cooperating witness and an undercover federal agent.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A former New York pediatrician and resident of Mashpee was sentenced today for distribution and possession of child pornography.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced $349 million in funding for 15 rural electric infrastructure projects to build or improve more than 1,844 miles of transmission and distribution lines for rural electric cooperatives and utilities in 13 states.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, man convicted of Transportation for Prostitution was sentenced on July 16, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Johnny Lee Martinez, 33, of Nampa, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to 57 months in prison for distributing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Martinez to serve four years of supervised release following his prison term, during which Martinez may not have contact with documented gang members. Martinez pleaded guilty to the charge on May 5, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a prior sex offender in Springfield, Mo., was indicted by a federal grand jury today for receiving and distributing child pornography. Gary Thomas Sheldon, 52, of Springfield...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: SALEM, MA - Leaders from the Corinthian Yacht Club, National Park Service Northeast Region and Salem Maritime National Historic Site recently gathered to recognize the successful preservation of the Pedrick Store House, a 1770 historic structure built in Marblehead, MA that formerly served as a privateering...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Pennie Sue Moffett, 41, of Kamiah, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to ten months in prison to be followed by three years supervised release for resisting and impeding an officer of the United States, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Moffett pleaded guilty on April 28, 2015.
By State Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
