News from May 2015
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - This morning, House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan spoke with CNBC’s Squawk Box on why Congress needs to come together and pass trade promotion authority legislation. Excerpts from his remarks follow.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Scott J. Lampert, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General’s (“HHS-OIG") New York Region, and Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: (DENVER) - Javier Batista Cervantes, age 35, who was until today in Canada, was extradited from Canada to Denver, Colorado so he can face drug trafficking charges, U.S. Attorney John Walsh and Drug Enforcement (DEA) Denver Division Special Agent in Charge Barbra Roach announced. Cervantes was indicted, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: In San Antonio, four individuals await sentencing after pleading guilty to federal charges related to illegally selling migratory birds announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr. and Special Agent in Charge Nicholas Chavez, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Southwest Region.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Lied About Pledging Allegiance To Self-Proclaimed Leader Of ISIL.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the unsealing of a criminal Complaint in Manhattan federal court charging SEAN...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that WILLIE ENGLISH, age 42, of Belle Chasse, was sentenced today for his misuse of a federal license.
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) welcomed floor action on Finance Committee-passed trade legislation - the Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015, also known as the preferences bill, and the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, known as the customs bill.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A federal jury Thursday convicted a Hillsboro man on federal firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: Concord, NH - Florentino Vasquez-Rodriguez of Honduras, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to illegally reentering the United States after having been previously deported, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Two Fort Worth, Texas, tax preparers who were convicted at trial in November 2014 on 34 counts of a superseding indictment charging conspiracy and other tax offenses, were sentenced yesterday, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By State Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, spoke on the House floor in support of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Robert Vargas, 29, of Stockton, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to 15 years in prison for conspiring to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, possession with intent to distribute MDMA, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury has returned two separate indictments against two Fresno County men for being felons in possession of a firearm. United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced that South Bend, Indiana, Police Department Officer Theodore Robert, 40, has been charged with a criminal civil rights violation for allegedly assaulting and injuring an arrestee at the St. Joseph County Jail. The incident at the jail occurred on May 30, 2010.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the sentencing of CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL STRONG, SR., 34, to 360 months in federal prison for a violent sexual assault committed on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. On Dec. 19, 2014, following a three-day trial, a federal jury found STRONG guilty of aggravated sexual abuse. The defendant was sentenced on May 7, 2015 before Senior Judge Richard H. Kyle, Sr. in U.S. District Court in Duluth, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments yesterday. You areadvised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, 27-year-old Ryan Bradley Pitts pleaded guilty to six counts of production of child pornography announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By Homeland Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: Before I make my statement, I’d like to take a moment to congratulate Chairman Culberson on his first CJS bill, as well as Ranking Member Fattah and full committee Chairman Rogers, for their efforts.
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC -Superintendent Pat Kenney is pleased to announce the selection of Jeri DeYoung as the new Chief of Resource Management at Cape Lookout National Seashore. Jeri will be joining the staff in May 2015 from her current position at the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site in Flat Rock, North Carolina.
