News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Eugenia A.P. Cowles, the Acting United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, stated that Kyle Tetreault, 24, of Vergennes, Vermont, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge William K. Sessions III, to 38 months in prison for being a felon in possession of firearms. Tetreault was also sentenced to 3 years of supervised release following his release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Lavonne Boose, 43, of Benton, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Linda R. Anderson on March 23, 2015 for an arraignment pursuant to a Criminal Information charging her with providing contraband to a federal inmate, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Donald Alway announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Lafayette man pleaded guilty to making a bomb threat and attempting to rob a bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal jury convicted Preston J. Harrison, 43, of Lewis Center, Ohio, and his business partner, Thomas E. Jackson, 40, of Powell, Ohio, of defrauding their company’s investors and diverting investors’ funds for their own personal use. Preston Harrison and his wife, Lovena E. Harrison...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Democratic members of the House Committee on Natural Resources met with national women conservation leaders today to discuss the invaluable role women play in improving national policy on climate change, clean air and water, wildlife preservation, and environmental justice. The meeting...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) applauded the Senate Republican budget and detailed ways in which it will reduce deficit spending and balance the budget - two crucial steps in putting the nation’s fiscal matters back on a sound path for economic growth.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Defendant Retaliated Against Court Personnel Following Adverse Decision In Suffolk County Foreclosure Action.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: The Indictment Is A Formal Accusation Of Criminal Conduct, Not Evidence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Eugenia A.P. Cowles, the Acting United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, stated that Scott Taylor, 21, of Milton, Vermont, was sentenced on March 25, 2015 by United States District Court Judge William K. Sessions III, to 48 months in prison for being in possession of stolen firearms. Taylor was also sentenced to 3 years of supervised release following his release from prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: One of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) priorities is arresting child predators and bringing them to a court of law where they face justice, or in some cases, sending them back to their home countries.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - With the President expected to speak today about the fifth anniversary of his signature domestic policy, Obamacare, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said rhetoric from the Administration praising the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act omits the law’s devastating consequences and broken promises to American taxpayers and patients...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced March 23, 2015, to more than 21 years in federal prison.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives on Thursday will vote to put an end to the nearly two decades of “fixing" the broken Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR). Bipartisan leaders of the Energy and Commerce and House Ways and Means Committee earlier this week introduced H.R. 2, legislation to fix the...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: New analyses from the Joint Committee on Taxation show that repealing the estate tax - through H.R. 1105 - would cost $269 billion over 10 years. At the same time, according to the JCT, in any given year fewer than 5,500 households would benefit from a repeal of the estate tax, with 75 percent of the tax cut going to inheritors of estates valued at more than $20 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. B A Miami, Florida, man today admitted trying to sell seven firearms believed to have belonged to the family of Saddam Hussein, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Lewis is One of Six Finalist for Prestigious National Award.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held the hearing, "Securing the Border: Understanding and Addressing the Root Causes of Central American Migration to the United States". Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del), as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MOHAMMED ALAZZAM was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 78 months in prison, and to restitution in the amount of $36,195,000. ALAZZAM was sentenced for organizing and leading a conspiracy to distribute ...
By State Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Ranking Member, issued this statement following a joint address to Congress from His Excellency Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that combined federal, state, and local efforts to combat child pornographers has resulted in a federal grand jury returning indictments in four different matters involving federal child pornography offenses. If convicted, each defendant could face significant incarceration, fines, restitution, forfeiture, and supervised release following imprisonment.
