News from June 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: In response to public concerns about cryptographic security, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has formally revised its recommended methods for generating random numbers, a crucial element in protecting private messages and other types of electronic data. The action implements changes to the methods that were proposed by NIST last year in a draft document issued for public comment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAMEEL WILKES, also known as “Biggs," 36, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 127 months of imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) jointly issued the following statements regarding the chairmanship of the Government Operations Subcommittee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Tyrauli Ramon Cutler, 33, of Canton, with bank robbery, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Deandre Jones, 29, of Irwin, Pennsylvania, and Robert Pannell, 34, of Bridgeport, West Virginia, were each convicted today of unlawful possession of firearms, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, New England Division and Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced Leonardo Almonte-Ramirez, 31, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 33 months in prison for distributing cocaine, and possessing cocaine, crack cocaine, and heroin with the intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ERIC O’NEAL SELDERS, age 43, of Independence, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment for a federal gun violation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: “I commend Chairman Goodlatte for convening today’s listening session on criminal justice reform. For decades, we in Congress reacted to the justifiable concern of our citizens about crime. We developed and enacted legislation intended to make us safer and to achieve justice. Over time, it has become ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: BISMARCK - Acting U. S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on June 25, 2015, Vernon Brekhus, 36, Kenmare, ND, was sentenced before Daniel L. Hovland to serve 45 years in prison for one count of Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, and 20 years in prison for one count of Possession of Materials Involving...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today issued the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s ruling on King v. Burwell...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging Ryan E. Ramey, 30, of Wooster, with passing and creating counterfeit currency, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Under the direction of Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the majority staff of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee released an interim report of preliminary findings from its investigation into the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Tomah, Wis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Cornelius Westly Jennings, Jr., age 27, of Washington, D.C., today to 111 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for a conspiracy to rob two businesses and for using a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Edgar Rolando Lopez, 45, a native of Guatemala, was charged today by indictment with reentry after deportation. According to the indictment, on or about Jan. 20, 2011, Lopez, an alien and native and citizen of Guatemala, was deported and removed from the United States. On June 2, 2015...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ricardo Lamagna, 21, a member and resident of Sandia Pueblo, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 18 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for assaulting a tribal police officer with a dangerous weapon conviction.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today held a hearing with experts on the Middle East and nuclear non-proliferation to evaluate key components of a possible final nuclear agreement with Iran. Among the issues raised, the witnesses stressed ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Mark G. Peters, the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation (“DOI"), and Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ERIC O’NEAL SELDERS, age 43, of Independence, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment for a federal gun violation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: Raymond Kudera, age 39, was sentenced June 22 and June 23, 2015, in the United States District Court in Omaha, Nebraska, for receiving child pornography. Kudera was convicted after a jury trial. The Honorable Laurie Smith Camp sentenced Kudera to 80 months imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: Columbia, SC - Bill Nettles, United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina, announced today that Arthur Fleming Moler, age 51, of Gaston, was sentenced to 78 months imprisonment for his role in trafficking more than five million dollars’ worth of counterfeit medications. Facts presented during...
