News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: SAN JOSE - Omar Gonzalez was sentenced today to 174 months in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce Balzano.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a hearing to examine changes in global energy markets. When it comes to energy markets, the transformation over the last decade has been dramatic and for the better. America is producing more while...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: (BOSTON - Following a seven-day trial, three Worcester men were convicted yesterday of distributing crack cocaine in the City of Worcester and surrounding areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Late yesterday, a federal grand 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: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Today, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging ISRAA JAFAR ALI, 19, from Oklahoma City, and SAJJAD HUSSEIN AL FEHAIDAH, 23, from Saudi Arabia, with conspiracy to make a terrorist hoax and for making a terrorist hoax, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Garry Collins, 46, formerly of Brunswick, Maine, was sentenced on Feb. 26, 2015 in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby to 200 months in prison and eight years of supervised release for possessing with intent to distribute more than 28 grams of cocaine base, or crack cocaine. Collins pleaded guilty on Oct. 1, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Sam Kuttab, 55, of Wyncote, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to participating in a scheme to have a Philadelphia Municipal Court Judge use his judicial position to influence the outcome of a small claims case in the Philadelphia Municipal Court, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Kuttab, a Philadelphia area businessman, pleaded guilty to an information charging him with one count of mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Shawn Lemont McClain, 35, of Cleveland, Ohio, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for heroin trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: Tomorrow morning the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case titled King v. Burwell. The Supreme Court’s ruling could have sweeping consequences for the well-being of millions of Americans, and for the nation’s entire health care system.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow 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 Obama Administration’s Ukraine policy amid relentless Russian aggression. The hearing is entitled “Ukraine Under Siege.".
By EPA Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a hearing to examine changes in global energy markets. When it comes to energy markets, the transformation over the last decade has been dramatic and for the better. America is producing more while...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 58-year-old Reading man was sentenced to 28 months in prison Friday by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani for conspiring with others to distribute heroin in the Monroe-Berks County area in 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: A man who failed to register as a sex offender was sentenced today to 21 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Lori Ann Roth, 53, of Battle Creek, Michigan, received the maximum possible sentence of 30 years in federal prison for producing pornography of a child less than 12 years old, U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today. Roth pled guilty in November 2014 to sexually exploiting...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced that Matthew D. King, 31, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of online enticement of a minor, was sentenced yesterday to 121 months in federal prison to be followed by 15 years of supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci. King was also ordered to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging Jonathon Schrader, 30, of Elkins, West Virginia, with possession of stolen explosives, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to attend a 2-hour car caravan tour focusing on Irish soldiers during the Battle of Chickamauga on Saturday, March 14 at 10 am. The tour will begin at the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center and then proceed into the battlefield.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Lawrence County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of bank robbery, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: BILLINGS - Following one-and-half days of trial, Mack Edward Harris, 49, of Billings, Montana, was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm and possessing a firearm after a misdemeanor conviction for domestic violence. U.S. District Judge Susan Watters presided over the trial. Harris now faces a maximum ten years in prison on each count, a $250,000 fine, and up to three years of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following statement in response to an op-ed by Reps. John Kline, Paul Ryan, and Fred Upton on King v. Burwell...
