News from May 2015
By Homeland Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.) today called on the Department of Defense to provide answers to the reportedly recent accidental shipment of samples of live anthrax to several domestic and overseas laboratories, some of which are military installations...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Gail Bishop, 44, of Tonawanda, NY, pleaded guilty to attempt to possess with intent to distribute cocaine before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By USDA Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: Washington - Leaders from six state agriculture departments and 19 U.S. agribusinesses and organizations will accompany U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Under Secretary Michael T. Scuse on a mission to the Dominican Republic and Panama June 1 through June 5, to expand export opportunities for U.S. food and agricultural products in the Central American-Caribbean region.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Russell W. Brace, a/k/a “Rusty," 81, of Camden, Maine, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to mail and tax fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: Daniel Bruce LaDeau, 65, of Summertown, Tennessee, was found guilty yesterday, by a federal jury, of conspiracy to possess child pornography, announced David Rivera, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: Another Defendant Also Sentenced in Separate Case.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston woman was sentenced yesterday for her role in a scheme to make fake identification documents of Citizens Bank customers and to use those fake documents to withdraw more than $67,000 from multiple accounts.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES, California - A federal grand jury this afternoon charged an Antelope Valley woman in an identity theft scheme that used personal data from elderly victims to defraud California’s unemployment insurance program out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
By State Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement regarding the anniversary of the release of the “Taliban 5" terrorists from Guantanamo Bay. On June 1st, the one-year travel ban on these individuals contained in the “memorandum of understanding" with Qatar expires.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles today announced the indictment and arrest of Shane Henderson, 41, and Christopher Trent Glover, 42, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute methamphetamine. Henderson and Glover were indicted along with eleven...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: Chicago --- A drug trafficker who used the illicit website “Silk Road" for worldwide drug sales was sentenced yesterday to 10 years’ imprisonment for selling millions of dollars’ worth of illegal drugs for bitcoins. The defendant, Cornelis Jan Slomp, 23, of Woerden, the Netherlands, pled guilty in April...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Russell Gordon, 31, of Ansonia, Connecticut and Robert Joiner, Jr., 30, of Detroit, Michigan pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiring to distribute 28 grams or more of cocaine base, often referred to as crack...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A 53-year-old League City, Texas, man, Nilanjan Brahma, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 21 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in October 2014 to one count of attempted transfer of obscene materials to a minor, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park opened today, Friday, May 29. Due to heavy melting on the road during the day and freezing temperatures at night, visitors should plan for night closures occurring at 8:00 p.m. until conditions change. This May's snowy and wet weather patterns hampered...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Massachusetts man was arrested this morning on charges that he illegally shipped hundreds of firearm parts to 22 different countries, including Finland where parts allegedly ended up in the hands of the Cannonballs Outlaw Motorcycle Gang.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Joe Eugene Loving (46) and John Thomas Humphreys (41), both of Conroe, Texas, and Paul Corbin Pennington, Jr. (27, Orange Park) with aggravated identity theft, bank fraud, false representation...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Moorpark man who used social networking websites to trick, extort or threaten more than a dozen girls and boys into sending him naked photos and videos was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Kevin Cawley, Jr., 34, of Abington, Mass., pleaded guilty yesterday to possession and distribution of child pornography. U.S. District Court Judge Dennis Saylor, IV scheduled sentencing for Aug. 12, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | May 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., May 29, 2015 - Next week the House will consider H.R. 1335 - “The Strengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act" (Magnuson-Stevens Reauthorization). The bill improves the conservation and management of U.S. fishery resources and will support a more robust domestic seafood industry and greater job creation in regions across the country.
