News from March 2015
By State Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: Dear Mr. President: As the deadline for a comprehensive nuclear agreement with Iran nears, we write to you to underscore the grave and urgent issues that have arisen in these negotiations. While we hope the Administration is able to achieve a lasting and meaningful agreement, we understand that there...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: -Websites were used to dispense pharmaceutical drugs without prescriptions.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 35-year-old Allen, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for mail fraud violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Asem Elgawhary, 73, of Potomac, Maryland today to 42 months in prison for accepting $5.2 million in kickbacks to manipulate the competitive bidding process for state-run power contracts in Egypt. Judge Chasanow also ordered Elgawhary to forfeit $5.2 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A New Hampshire man pleaded guilty today to traveling with intent to engage in illegal sexual activity with a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Janis Tonis, 32, and Veronika Krutova, 26, of Latvia, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Leslie G. Foschio, to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office today announced the sentencing of Cori Lynn Mancuso on the charge of misprision of felony arising from the international parental kidnapping of three children to Saudi Arabia.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: Michael "Mic" Dahl was Missing Since Saturday, March 21.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Scranton, Pa. man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Springfield to charges relating to tobacco tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: Could face from 5 - 20 years imprisonment.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: On Tuesday, March 24 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), will hold a legislative hearing on the Certainty in Enforcement Act of 2015 (H.R. 548), the Litigation Oversight Act of 2015 (H.R. 549), the EEOC Transparency and Accountability Act (H.R. 550), and the Preserving Employee Wellness Programs Act (H.R. 1189).The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Rodney Goodrich, Jr., 28, of Newark, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to theft of firearms and possession and sale of stolen firearms and ammunition. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: The 30-foot, plumb-bow wooden power boat Eva B. slid out of Menotti Pasquinucci’s Sausalito boat shop in 1936. On Saturday, April 11 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park (NHP) will return Eva B. to the waters of the Bay with the break of a champagne...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Eureka man pleaded guilty Monday to making counterfeit money by “washing" old bills, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -Judy Gutierrez, 22, of Fresno, pleaded guilty today to violating federal law by making a false bomb threat (false information and hoax), United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Dominque A. Burwell, 21, of Chicago, Illinois, pled guilty today to Conspiracy to Distribute Heroin from September 2012 through October 2014 in Marion County (Count 1); and Distribution of Heroin on July 29, 2014, in Marion County (Count 7).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Robert Jeffery Householder, 46, of Capon Bridge, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for unlawful possession of a firearm, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: For the past four years, the National Park Service and many other organizations and individuals have been commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War and the continuing efforts for human rights today. On April 9, 1865, Union General Ulysses S. Grant met Confederate General Robert E. Lee to set...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment charging eight new defendants with racketeering conspiracy, drug and gun charges related to their gang activities as members and associates of the UDH or “Up Da Hill" organization, which operates in the Cherry Hill section ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: An agricultural engineer with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has developed a practical, cost-effective approach for taking aerial images of cotton fields that are detailed enough to show patches of large fields in need of special attention.
