News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Earl R. Russell, a/k/a “Ernest Steve Russell," a/k/a “Ernest Steve Benders," 57, a native of Saint Kitts-Nevis, was charged today by superseding indictment with making a materially false statement in a TWIC application regarding his citizenship and gaining entry by false pretense into a secure area of a seaport, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: GREAT FALLS - Former Chippewa Cree Tribal Chairman Bruce Sunchild, 69, of Box Elder was sentenced to almost three years in federal prison for his role in the widespread public corruption at the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation. The sentencing took place before U.S. District Judge Brian Morris today, in Great Falls.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: MEDORA, ND: Theodore Roosevelt National Park and the North Dakota Badlands Horse Registry (NDBH) have signed a partnership agreement to facilitate transfer of excess feral horses from park lands in the South Unit to private ownership. The park maintains horses as an "historic demonstration herd" for visitor enjoyment, but these horses must be actively managed to avoid overgrazing and resource damage.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, March 10, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that DONALD OGMAN, also known as “Main" and “Mainy-O," 33, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
Release: USDA leaders are traveling across the country to meet with U.S. agricultural stakeholders about the importance of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA). TPA is a critical tool in the United States' efforts to seek approval of trade agreements that support and create U.S. jobs while helping American agriculture compete more successfully in an ever-expanding global marketplace.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes civil penalties ranging from $66,000 to $82,500 against three companies for allegedly violating Hazardous Materials Regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: Twenty-six people, most of them from the Toledo area, were indicted in federal court for their roles in a wide-ranging conspiracy in which stolen computers, smart phones and other electronics were fenced at stores in Toledo and resold in Michigan and the Middle East, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: BALTIMORE - U.S District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced David Paschall, age 56, of Catonsville, Maryland, to 90 month in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute oxycodone and conspiring to commit bank burglary. Judge Motz also entered an order that Paschall forfeit $500,000, his ownership interest in Paschall’s Auto Body Shop and his residence, three firearms and his vehicle.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that RAUL CABAN-MARTES, 22, of Norwalk, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 40 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally selling firearms.
By State Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Reflecting bipartisan concern in Congress over the Obama administration’s hesitant response to Russian violations of a second ceasefire in Ukraine, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today at a committee hearing on the crisis in Ukraine referred to the administration’s failure to deliver on military and non-military assistance for Ukraine as “a blight" on 70 years of defending democracy in Europe.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: James Garner, 30, and Ruben Marshall, 48, both of Pottstown, PA, were charged today with conspiracy to commit armed bank robbery, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Garner is also charged with attempt to commit armed bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, March 10, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that RAUL CABAN-MARTES, 22, of Norwalk, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Concluding a two-part trial, a Los Angeles man was convicted today of producing child pornography in the Philippines while being required to register as a sex offender due to his prior conviction for raping a 14-year-old girl.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: Scheme operated in several states and victimized more than 550 people.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., delivered the following statement today at a Finance Committee hearing on tax reform...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today the return of an indictment charging Gioacchino “Jack" Campo (56, Palm Coast) with two counts of receiving child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography. If convicted, he faces a mandatory minimum penalty...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Three Los Angeles-area residents responsible for operating a network of four schools were arrested this morning on federal charges for allegedly helping hundreds of foreign nationals remain in the United States as foreign students, even though they never attended classes.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) released the following statement on President Obama’s proposed Student Aid Bill of Rights.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Olivia Dixon, 31, of Midway, West Virginia, plead guilty today in federal court in Beckley to obtaining hydromorphone and morphine sulfate by fraud. Dixon, a former nurse at Raleigh General Hospital in Beckley, West Virginia, admitted that on Nov. 10, 2014, she stole pain medications intended for patients, including morphine, for her own personal use.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office today announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, Montana on March 9, 2015, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lynch, the following individuals appeared.
