News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Late yesterday, a federal jury in Panama City, Florida, convicted Sammie Lee Underwood III, 22, of Panama City, of being a felon in possession of a loaded.380 caliber pistol. The verdict was announced by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: On March 3, 2015, Sarah Lindsey, 30, of Marion, Ill., was sentenced for her involvement in a methamphetamine conspiracy, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell yesterday sentenced Brian Robert Harling (58, Fort Myers) to 20 years in federal prison for possession of child pornography. The Court also ordered him to forfeit five thumb drives that he had used to store his collection of child pornography.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: NEW YORK - All a receptionist at Salon Zoë hair salon wanted to do was make her fellow employees aware of health hazards associated with products containing formaldehyde that were regularly used by haircutters and stylists at the business in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. Her employer responded by firing her.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Calvin Frank Joe, 41, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Gallup, N.M., was sentenced this morning to 42 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his involuntary manslaughter conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - U.S. Attorney Jim Lewis, Central District of Illinois, announced today that five defendants have recently entered pleas of guilty related to a scheme that defrauded the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency of millions of dollars. The charges against the men relate to a scheme that, over a period of 12 years, from 2001 to 2013, swindled money from a fund administered by Illinois EPA to clean up sites contaminated by leaking underground storage tanks.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: A close-up view of an individual tree won't tell you much about what's going on in the forest, or even what's going on in the tree's upper branches. The same goes for studying nanoparticles. What is happening in one small area might not be indicative of what's going on with the nanoparticle as a whole. In fact, the light you shine on the area may actually affect the reaction processes, giving a skewed reading.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) and 36 Democratic Senators wrote a letter to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell, encouraging her to further improve women’s access to health care under the Affordable Care Act by instituting a special open enrollment period for women to enroll in health coverage when they find out they are pregnant.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: PAGO PAGO, American Samoa-The Mount ‘Alava summit area, including the fale, are temporarily closed due to construction activity to repair the television and radio infrastructure at that location. This temporary closure is in effect until the work has been completed.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in David King, et al v. Sylvia Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. The Ranking Members of the House Committees on Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, and Education and the Workforce today reiterated their support of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Three additional men 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.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging Certified Public Accountant Gregory N. Cason, 45, of Morgantown, West Virginia, with tax fraud, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (UT-03) released the following statement in response to Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email account for official federal business while Secretary of the U.S. State Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Mar. 2, 2015, Stephen Thompson, 25, of Knoxville, Tenn., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville, to two counts of Hobbs Act robbery and one count of discharging a firearm during the robbery. Sentencing was set for 10:00 a.m., July 8, 2015, in U.S. District Court in Knoxville.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement on the final passage by the House of Representatives of a clean, full-year funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security. All House Democrats voted for the bipartisan legislation, while most House Republicans voted against it.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced Jonathan S. Bergeron (30, Orlando) to 12 years in prison for attempting to persuade, induce, and entice two minors he believed to be 12 and 8 years of age to engage in illicit sexual conduct. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 13, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that John Whittenburg, 62, of Gorham, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Nancy Torresen to six years in prison and six years of supervised release for receiving child pornography. Whittenburg pleaded guilty to the charge on Nov. 21, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston area man pleaded guilty on Friday, Feb. 27, 2015, to robbing three banks in June 2014 and stealing over $18,000.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: Employer name and location: Seldat Distribution Inc., 15 Thatcher Road, Dayton, New Jersey.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man was sentenced today in federal court to a total of 124 months in federal prison for committing firearms and drug trafficking offenses. JARIMNE FREEMAN, 30, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to serve 64 months’ imprisonment for possessing with intent to...
