News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a former Pennsylvania state prison inmate was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley to 48 months in prison for mailing a letter threatening to injure and kill a Monroe County Common Pleas Judge.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva and 20 other House Democrats, including 15 Committee members, sent a letter to members of the House Appropriations Committee yesterday urging full funding of the Obama administration’s efforts to conserve the greater sage-grouse. The Interior Department must determine by September 30 whether the bird warrants a listing under the Endangered Species Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Bank Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Four family members who operated a temporary employment agency in Lowell were sentenced yesterday on charges relating to a scheme to hide over $25 million in employee wages from the Internal Revenue Service.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - All 16 members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee sent a letter Monday to President Barack Obama and 10 agencies across the executive branch. The letter urges the president and his agency heads to expeditiously nominate permanent inspectors general, the federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: An Indictment Is A Formal Accusation Of Criminal Conduct, Not Evidence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Kimberly J. Demata, age 30, of Miami, Florida, was sentenced today in federal court in Anderson, for to conspiracy to defraud the United States. United States District Judge Timothy M. Cain of Anderson sentenced Demata...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that EILEEN BRENNAN, 78, of Branford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to one year of probation, the first six months of which BRENNAN must serve in home confinement, for failing...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: A man who used a machete to murder his parents on the Meskwaki Nation Settlement was sentenced today to life in federal prison without the possibility of parole.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Joshua Gillespie, 24, Beloit, Wis., was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 84 months in federal prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for unlawfully possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Gillespie pleaded guilty to this offense on Jan. 13, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: Beckley, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that two men pled guilty in federal court in Beckley before United States District Judge Irene C. Berger. Harry Franklin Huffman II, 25, of Lewisburg, pled guilty to using a phone to facilitate a drug felony, admitting that on September...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: Former North Miami Mayor was sentenced by United States District Judge Robert N. Scola for her participation in a multi-million dollar mortgage fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Altagracia Guadalupe Vargas, 28, of Laredo, has been convicted of conspiracy and possession with the intent to distribute Heroin, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The jury returned its verdict following a three-day trial and approximately one hour deliberation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned three separate indictments charging seven additional members and associates of the Schuele Boys Gang, a group which operated in the Schuele Street area of the East Side of Buffalo. The charges, which include conspiracy to distribute and distribute crack cocaine, cocaine and marijuana, carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a fine of $1,000,000.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., sent a letter to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen requesting the agency issue guidance to make clear that electrical vehicle (EV) charging provided by employers is a de minimis fringe benefit, meaning it should not be included as an employee’s income because it is so small as to make accounting for it unreasonable or administratively impractical.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., delivered the following statement today on the Senate floor regarding the budget debate...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A receptionist previously employed by a medical office in Kearny, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 34 months in prison for embezzling more than $446,000 from her former employer, using fraudulent credit cards to obtain more than $200,000 in goods and services and evading taxes on that illegal income, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Department of the Army for Civil Works announced today that the three agencies have extended their partnership to advance hydropower development for an additional five years. The renewal agreement signed today commits the agencies to a specific, ambitious agenda for hydropower, building upon their Memorandum of Understanding for Hydropower (MOU) signed on March 24, 2010.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: James L. Santelle, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on March 23, 2015, Joseph J. Valdez (age: 29) of Green Bay, Wisconsin, appeared in federal court in Green Bay and pleaded guilty to a single count of sexual exploitation of a child in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2251(a).
