News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: A man who unlawfully used another individual’s identity to apply for credit pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska -U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler announced today that the following individuals have been arrested in connection with a drug and money laundering conspiracy investigation involving the smuggling of cocaine to Alaska through Las Vegas McCarron International Airport. The new defendants are.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: TYLER, Texas - U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that a Longview man has been sentenced to federal prison for his involvement in a drug conspiracy in the Eastern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia, March 2, 2015-A diverse group of leaders in community development, nonprofit management and higher education gathered in Hinton last week for the Camp Brookside Roundtable Meeting. Participants shared ideas for a future for this emerging education institute, located in Brooks...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Richard Dale Brooks (55, Cocoa) to 7 years and 11 months in federal prison on five counts of receiving child pornography over the Internet, and one count of possessing child pornography. The Court also ordered him to forfeit a computer that he had used in the commission of the offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - German Dario Brand Piedrahita, 49, of Medellin, Colombia, was sentenced today to 144 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to manufacture and distribute cocaine for the purpose of importation into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Andrew G. McCabe, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the Washington, D.C., Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the extradition of MINH QUANG PHAM, a/k/a “Amin," from the United Kingdom.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Two members of the Mastronardo Bookmaking Organization, a multi-million dollar sports betting operation, were sentenced to prison today by U.S. District Court Judge Jan E. DuBois. John Vito Mastronardo, Jr., 59, of Boca Raton, Florida, was sentenced to nine months in prison, to be followed...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Felix Moreno-Garcia and Fabian Pineda-Garcia have been sentenced for possessing over four pounds of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: MARION, Ill. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge, James P. Shroba announced today that Sarah Lindsey, 30, of Marion, IL, was sentenced to 120 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and fined $200.00 for her involvement in a methamphetamine conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that a 31-year old Harrisburg man was sentenced today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge William C. Caldwell to six months imprisonment, three years supervised release and payment to the IRS of $216,000, along with penalties and interest.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Darnell Mason, 22, of Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to 22 ½ years in prison for obstruction of justice and related charges in connection with actions he took following an armed home invasion, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Framingham man was charged today in U.S. District Court in Boston with child pornography offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 54-year-old McKinney, Texas photographer has been sentenced to federal prison for sexual exploitation of children in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a new silver nanoparticle reference material to support researchers studying potential environmental, health and safety risks associated with the nanoparticles, which are being incorporated in a growing number of consumer and industrial...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the former sheriff of St. Clair County, Mo., pleaded guilty in federal court today to stealing property recovered in criminal cases and to selling a stolen firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: A Mexican man who unlawfully re-entered the United States after having been deported following his 2010 Tama County, Iowa, convictions for child endangerment and domestic abuse assault with a dangerous weapon, was sentenced today to serve 41 months in federal prison.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: On Wednesday, March 4 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), will hold a legislative hearing entitled, “H.J. Res. 29, Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the National Labor Relations Board relating to representation case procedures." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Dana Faulkner, 48, resident of Oakland, CA, was sentenced today by United States District Judge John A. Mendez to one year in prison for conspiring to commit mail fraud and make false statements in loan applications, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. In addition, Faulkner was ordered to pay over $3 million in restitution to defrauded financial institutions.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - Justin Dishon Brathwaite, 27, of Dallas, Texas, appeared in federal court today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Renee Harris Toliver and pleaded guilty to one count of transportation of individuals to engage in prostitution, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
