News from May 2015
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that United States District Court Judge, Ralph R. Beistline, sentenced an Anchorage man, Stuart T. Seugasala, a.k.a. “Tone," age 40, to three terms of life imprisonment following his January 2015 convictions on drug trafficking conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Lisa Stratton, 55, of Avondale, Pennsylvania was charged today by Information with wire fraud announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced Wayne “Bam Bam" Broderick (39, Lakeland) to 20 years in federal prison for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and possession of firearms during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime. He pleaded guilty on Feb. 24, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: Season in Full Swing at New River Gorge National River.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On May 13, 2015, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit submitted a 57 page opinion affirming the conviction of Edison Burgos-Montes, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Paul Milton Laney, age 61, of Silver Spring, Maryland pleaded guilty today to committing two bank robberies within three days.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-Addressing media reports that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is considering merging the New Mexico and Arizona state offices, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT), Oversight Interior...
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: Fire Island, New York -Fire Island National Seashore's Watch Hill marina and visitor facilities are now open. This season the Watch Hill area offers improved water-based access and special programming planned to celebrate the Seashore's 50th anniversary.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Across Town Movers, a San Diego-based storage company, and its owner, Daniel E. Homan, have agreed to pay nearly $170,000 to resolve allegations by the Department of Justice that it unlawfully sold U.S. Navy service members’ stored goods.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: Defendant used Former Academic Post at UW to Tout Investment Adviser Business.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) issued the following statement today describing an agreement to deliver a trade enforcement bill through Congress and to the president...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSHUA EASTERLING, also known as “Skeet," “Squash" and “SQ," 28, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by eight years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that, on May 18, 2015, Daniel Ayala, 24, of Burlington, Vermont, was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison after his guilty plea to charges that he conspired to distribute heroin, cocaine base, and marijuana, and conspired ...
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) welcomed floor debate of the bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 and called on Congress to enhance its voice in trade negotiations by passing the bill on a bipartisan basis.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that LENA LASHER, a licensed pharmacist, was found guilty in federal court of misbranding and fraud offenses arising from an Internet pharmacy scheme. LASHER was convicted on Friday, May 15, in Manhattan federal court after a two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: Annalise McGhee, 28, of St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced today in the U.S. District Court to 70 months in prison on one count of Conspiracy to Commit Bank Robbery and two counts of Bank Robbery in connection with the robbery of Laclede Community Credit Union in Alton, IL, on Feb. 11, 2013, and...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Today, Tucson resident Vittorio Francesco Castillo-Gonzalez, 27, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Raner C. Collins to 30 years’ incarceration for his part in two federal child pornography cases. In the first case, which arose in Arizona, the defendant was charged with distribution...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: One codefendant to be sentenced later this year; three others sentenced to prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: A convicted bank robber who absconded from supervised release, and lived on the lam for more than five years, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 12 years in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. BRADLEY STEVEN ROBINETT, 46, was arrested in Hillsboro, Oregon, on June ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today filed a lawsuit against the corporate owner and agent of the Gentle Manor Estates, a 173-lot mobile home park located in Crown Point, Indiana, for discriminating against families with children in violation of the Fair Housing Act.
