News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JOSE BENJAMIN LOPEZ-AGUILAR, age 23, a citizen of, pled guilty today to a one-count Bill of Information for illegal reentry of removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy C. Lynch, who handled the case, stated that beginning in early 2010 and continuing through June 14, 2011, the defendant distributed between five and 15 kilograms of cocaine in the Buffalo area. Barnes and co-defendant Anthony Avery initially obtained cocaine from a source...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that there will be a press event held tomorrow, Thursday, June 18, 2015, at 1:00 PM at the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, located at Nine Executive Drive, Fairview...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) on Wednesday discussed a national strategic agenda set out by No Labels, a bipartisan organization.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: Additional overflights yesterday showed that the Paradise Fire continues to burn in the wilderness of the Queets Valley. More accurate mapping now shows a fire size of 367 acres. The fire is located about 12 miles upvalley from the Queets River trailhead, well within the park boundary. The fire's cause remains unknown.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for conspiring to launder money as part of a $15 million mortgage fraud scam that used phony documents and “straw buyers" to make illegal profits on overbuilt condos, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Chief U.S. District Judge Anne C. Conway has sentenced William A. Harvey (50, DeLand) to 16 years and 8 months in federal prison for production of child pornography. He was also ordered to serve a life term of supervision following his release from prison. Harvey pleaded guilty on March 31, 2015.
By State Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following statement at a committee hearing on the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Darwin Gilbert Gowen, age 62, of St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve 135 months (just over 11 years) in federal prison, followed by 10 years on supervised release for travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: Michael Childs, 39, and Charles Lovett, 26, both of Opa-Locka, were sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Joan A. Lenard to consecutive terms of imprisonment totaling 480 months and 141 months respectively, for committing multiple armed robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that a Charleston, West Virginia man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Charleston to carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking offense. James Philip Daugherty, 20, entered a guilty plea to carrying a loaded Ruger semi-automatic pistol on January 9, 2015, while he possessed crack cocaine that he intended to distribute in and around Charleston, West Virginia.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As you know, Democrats on this Committee have been calling for this Committee to consider the important issue of long-term financing of the Highway Trust Fund for years. Three letters and two Congresses later, here we are. In just 6 short weeks, the trust fund’s spending...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Marionville, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to child sexual exploitation. Darren Eugene Schaefer, 36, of Marionville, Mo., pleaded guilty before U.S.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today announced the Committee will hold a hearing on Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) and trade retaliation: what is at stake for America's farmers, ranchers, businesses and consumers.
By State Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 10 a.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing to examine the use of chemical weapons in Syria by the Assad regime. The hearing is entitled “Assad’s Abhorrent Chemical Weapons Attacks.".
By EPA Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today approved H.R. 805, the Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Matters (DOTCOM) Act, bipartisan legislation to protect the future of the Internet. Authored by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), the DOTCOM Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging the following persons with federal crimes involving steroid trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jose Guerra Caraballo, 43 of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci to possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm in the furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of life and a $2,000,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, June 24, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining the Administration’s Approval of Medicaid Demonstration Projects."
By DOE Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today approved H.R. 805, the Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Matters (DOTCOM) Act, bipartisan legislation to protect the future of the Internet. Authored by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), the DOTCOM Act...
