News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Male Yahaira Rivera (35, Orlando) today pleaded guilty to embezzlement from a federally insured credit union. She faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that United States District Court Judge Sharon L. Gleason ordered Michael Butler, 44, along with Sun Sims, 52, Kyong Hee Kim, 57, Jae Ho Lee, 60, Jae Gak Lee, 62, and Jerry Lee, 60, to pay a total of $2,007, 250, plus interest, in restitution...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: On March 17, 2015, Carmen J. Clover, 41, of Tilden, IL, was sentenced for her involvement in a methamphetamine conspiracy, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: An Akron man was sentenced to nearly four years in prison fo illegally possessing a firearm, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: In 2013, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists surveyed forests in Maryland and West Virginia and found that stink bugs prefer to overwinter in large, dry, dead trees having a circumference of more than 23 inches.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: LEXINGTON - A former vice-president of a Shelbyville bank has been sentenced to 12 months in prison, with an additional six months of home-incarceration, for misappropriating hundreds of thousands of dollars of bank funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a former Millersburg, Pennsylvania-based bus company executive and his corporation were sentenced today in United States District Court in Harrisburg on charges they defrauded two area school districts out of more than $1.4 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man was convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, and was sentenced on March 9, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 37-year-old Chicago resident pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to participating in a drug conspiracy that was responsible for distributing heroin and other drugs during a four-year time period in Monroe, Montgomery, and Berks Counties in Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 65-year-old Athens, Texas, man has been sentenced for federal income tax violations, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: House Judiciary Ranking Member John Conyers today introduced the Judicial Redress Act of 2015, which...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today praised the United States’ request to establish a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel to consider Indonesia’s licensing restrictions on imports of a wide range of American agricultural products, including fruits and vegetables and meat.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Two individuals from the Metro Denver area were arrested this morning by special agents and task force officers from the FBI led Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force (RMSSTF) on charges of armed bank robbery, U.S. Attorney John Walsh and FBI Denver Division Special Agent in Charge Thomas Ravenelle...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - Two former Freedom Industries officials, Michael E. Burdette and Robert J. Reynolds, pleaded guilty in federal court in Charleston today to environmental crimes in connection with the January 2014 Elk River chemical spill, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced. Both men pleaded guilty to negligently discharging MCHM into the Elk River without a permit. Sentencing is set for June 24, 2015.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Washington - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, along with Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member, Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), chairman of the Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management, and Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.),...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Defendant Arrested At Luxury Hotel In Dallas In A Room Full Of Stolen And Fake IDs.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ISIDRO OROZCO-LOPEZ, age 34, a citizen of Guatemala, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Las Vegas - Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will accept public comment on the Special Account Request (SAR) for funding from the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act (SNPLMA) for Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument from March 18 through April 2, 2015. National Park Service has requested initial funding generated from the sale of public land in the Las Vegas Valley for the newly designated monument in the northern portion of the Las Vegas Valley.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 18, 2015 - Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources made the following opening statement at today's oversight hearing entitled"Effect of the President's FY 2016 Budget and LegislativeProposals for the Office of Surface Mining on Private Sector Job Creation, DomesticEnergy Production, State Programs and Deficit Reduction.".
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Secretary Lew, I join Chairwoman Granger in welcoming you here today.
