News from May 2015
By USDA Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against The Square Group LLC.The company, operating from California, allegedly failed to make payment to 32 produce sellers in the amount of $1,190,177...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - On Wednesday, May 6, 2015, U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. sentenced Nathan Thomas Mroz, 40, of Charlotte, to 51 months in prison and to two years of supervised release in connection with his scheme to steal money from his former employer, Andersen Heating & Cooling (Andersen)...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago investment adviser was sentenced today to 36 months imprisonment for fraudulently using new investor funds, including funds from elderly investors, to pay off old investors, leading to a loss of almost $1 million. The defendant, JOSEPH HENNESSY, 54, of Western Springs, was also ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: WACO, Texas - The owner of the Cove Smoke Shack in Copperas Cove, TX, faces up to 20 years in federal prison after admitting to selling synthetic marijuana announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Houston Division, and Killeen Police Chief Dennis Baldwin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Muhammad Naji (34, Tampa) has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that RAYMOND WAYNE HOOD, age 22, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma was sentenced to 60 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release for Possession of a Stolen Firearm, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(j).
By DOE Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today applauded the Department of Energy (DOE) for approving Dominion’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project at Cove Point, Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Bernardo Lloyd, age 48, of Silver Spring, Maryland late yesterday to 63 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for involuntary manslaughter connected to a fatal crash on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that David L. Barber, 30, Beloit, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to four years in federal prison for distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: (HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Kevin Wallin, 63, last residing in Waterbury, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 65 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking (“meth").
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Derrick Yancey, 27, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations Conspiracy (RICO Conspiracy), was sentenced to 168 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOE Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Energy Department announced today that it has issued a final authorization for Dominion Cove Point LNG, LP to export domestically produced liquefied natural gas (LNG) to countries that do not have a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States. The Cove Point LNG Terminal in Calvert County, Maryland is authorized to export LNG up to the equivalent of 0.77 billion standard cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of natural gas for a period of 20 years.
By EPA Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee today released its discussion draft on Energy Reliability and Security to be included in the committee’s Architecture of Abundance energy legislation. The subcommittee will review the draft legislation at a hearing on Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Witnesses and details will be announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on May 4, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By US DOT Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will soon begin work on the next step in a multi-year effort to update the scientific evidence on the relationship between aircraft noise exposure and its effects on communities around airports.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that GARCIA SHRIMP CO., LLC, a Texas Limited Liability Company headquartered in Brownsville, Texas, pled guilty today to a one-count Bill of Information for violating the Federal Lacey Act.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -Navee Diaz, a/k/a India, age 40, of Owings Mills, Maryland pleaded guilty today to bank fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft, arising from a scheme to use of stolen credit and debit card information to manufacture counterfeit credit cards used to buy merchandise and services.
By DOL Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez recently appointed six members to serve on the Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: Three Queens, New York, Family Members And An Italian Citizen Charged With Conspiring To Import And Importing More Than 50 Kilograms Of Cocaine Into The U.S. From Costa Rica In Shipments Of Produce.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that NICHOLAS SCOTT AVERY, a/k/a Nicholas Scott, age 24, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma was sentenced to 60 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release for Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of Drug Trafficking Offense, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 924(c)(1)(A) and 2.
