News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: Arizona to Indianapolis drug connection disrupted with arrests and confiscation of heroin, cocaine and over $1.8 million in cash.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that STEPHEN FARRELL, age 25, of Metairie, was sentenced today after having previously pled guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: Members of Oxycodone Trafficking Ring Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that a 39-year old man was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury sitting in Charleston for filing multiple false claims with the Internal Revenue Service. According to the 12-count indictment, Michael D. Jarrell, formerly of...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JOHNNY BAHAM, age 53, of Mandeville, was indicted today for theft of mail.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40), the Ranking Democrat on the House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, today delivered the following opening statement at a Subcommittee hearing on the Department of Homeland Security’s budget request for Fiscal Year 2016. The hearing’s witness was Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment Thursday against 10 defendants, charging them with conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and related crimes, and trafficking in counterfeit labels, documentation and packaging, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today delivered the following remarks on the House floor in support of H.R. 2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced two postal workers were indicted by a federal grand jury today, in separate and unrelated cases, for stealing thousands of pieces of mail and for stealing money from a cash drawer.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 26, 2015 - Committee on Natural Resources Vice Chairman Cynthia Lummis (WY-At large) today questioned BLM Director Neil Kornze on how the memorandum of understanding (MOU) between BLM and the states will operate.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JAMIE PLAISANCE, age 38, of Raceland, was indicted today for possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Deandre Sparks, a/k/a Dee Dee, 23, of Buffalo, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of crack cocaine, before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Jahmal Williams, 27, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was charged today by indictment with robbery which interferes with interstate commerce, brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced United States Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles announced that Kathleen Niew, of Chicago, Illinois, pled guilty in Columbia, South Carolina, today to three counts of Wire Fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343. Niew faces a possible sentence on each count...
By State Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 8:30 a.m., as part of the Committee’s examination of President Obama’s request for authorization to use military force against ISIS, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing entitled, “The Administration’s Strategy to Confront ISIS." The hearing will take place TODAY, Thursday, March 26 at 8:30 a.m. in 2172 Rayburn House Office Building.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-President Barack Obama is expected to request the resignation of Chemical Safety Board Chairman Dr. Rafael Moure-Eraso. In response to this news, Chairman Jason Chaffetz (UT-03) and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (MD-07) issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: Arrests Followed Undercover Investigation. WASHINGTON - Pablo Lovo, 27, Joel Sorto, 25, and Yonas Eshetu, 29, were sentenced today to significant prison terms for conspiring to interfere with interstate commerce by robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that GAIL TEAGUE, 48, of New Orleans, pled guilty yesterday to defrauding Ochsner Federal Credit Union in connection with the theft of funds during her employment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Rafiq Ahmad, Special Agent in Charge, United States Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, Office of Labor Racketeering and Fraud Investigations (OLRFI-Miami), Kelly R. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, Internal...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - On Wednesday, March 25, 2015, U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. sentenced Jessica Ordonez, 38, of Belmont, N.C. to 24 months in prison on tax evasion and filing false tax returns, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge Conrad also ordered Ordonez to serve one year under court supervision following her release from prison and to pay $288,302.63 as restitution.
