News from May 2015
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2015
News Release: SAN JOSE-Jason Keith Smith was sentenced to 14 months in prison for making multiple telephone bomb threats to San Benito High School, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
By Commerce Newswire | May 26, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) issued the following statement following news of a major data breach at the IRS...
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2015
News Release: In Austin today, a federal judge sentenced 39-year-old Derrick Terrill Nix of New Orleans, LA, to two six-year prison terms to run concurrent for an attempted bank robbery and a bank robbery in North Austin, announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr. and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs of the FBI’s San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - After a five-day jury trial, Leoner Martínez-Lantigua was found guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, announced United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez. United States District Court Judge Francisco Besosa presided over the trial. Five other co-conspirators had already pled guilty and are awaiting sentence. Defendant Erasmo Martínez-Trinidad remains a fugitive.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - AML Ship Management GMBH, a German company, was sentenced in federal court today to pay a total of $800,000 in fines and community service payments for violating the Clean Water Act and the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships by intentionally discharging 4,500 gallons of oily bilge water into the ocean off the coast of Alaska and then presenting false records to the U.S. Coast Guard.
By Interior Newswire | May 26, 2015
News Release: Kimberly, Ore. -- Paleontologists are pleased to announce the discovery of 10 new prehistoric rodent species found at the National Park Service (NPS) John Day Fossil Beds National Monument and nearby public land administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2015
News Release: Julian Martin Gaspar Vazquez (Gaspar), 52, of Mexico was sentenced on May 22, 2015, by United States District Judge William P. Dimitrouleas, to forty-one months imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release for executing a $4 million dollar bank fraud scheme. Gaspar was also ordered to pay $4,488,000 in restitution. In addition, the Court imposed a $4 million forfeiture money judgment against Gaspar.
By DOL Newswire | May 26, 2015
News Release: Employer Name and Location: The acetylene repackaging facility of industrial gas manufacturer Welco Acetylene Corp. is located at 321 Roanoke Place in Newark, New Jersey.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that two Town Hall meetings will be held on June 6, 2015, to educate Military Veterans on their post-service employment rights. One Town Hall will be held in Mobile County at 10 a.m. at Tilman’s County Senior Center...
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Ángel Ayala-Dávila (“Ayala-Dávila"), 19, pled guilty to Count One of an information which charged him, aided and abetted by others, with the carjacking murder of Roy Figueiredo-Ramos, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. As part of the plea agreement the parties have recommended a sentencing range of 24 to 30 years’ imprisonment.
By US DOT Newswire | May 26, 2015
News Release: (Washington, DC) Today, the Ranking Member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA), praised the public release of the final Clean Water Protection rulemaking by the Obama administration. This rulemaking fulfils the requests...
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Shreveport man was sentenced to 24 months in prison for failing to update his sex offender registration when he moved.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2015
News Release: Among Five Mexican Nationals Sentenced. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that five Mexican nationals were sentenced in federal court today for their roles in a Mexico-based drug-trafficking organization that smuggled large amounts...
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Derrick Gossett, 34, of Humble, has been ordered to prison following his convictions on two counts of production of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. At the time of the offense, he was a music teacher at Anderson Elementary School in the Spring Independent School District (ISD). Gossett pleaded guilty Aug. 4, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Florida man involved in several pyramid schemes was arrested on visa fraud charges after entering the United States from a trip abroad.
By DOL Newswire | May 26, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) joined a call with small business owners across the country to discuss the Raise the Wage Act, Murray’s legislation that would increase the minimum wage to $12 by 2020. On the call, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that United States District Court Chief Judge Christopher C. Conner sentenced Adam N. Riegel, age 25, of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania today to three years’ probation with eight months’ home confinement for conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2015
News Release: Two Canadian Men Also Charged for Roles in Scheme, One of Whom Has Pleaded Guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Richard A. Brennan, age 42, of Clarksburg, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to two counts of mail fraud, and to making a false statement on a tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - LeDon Gaither, 38, of Cleveland, Ohio, was convicted of heroin and cocaine trafficking today in federal court, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
