News from November 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican members, including every Republican member of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology and every Republican member of the House Small Business Committee, today wrote to the Federal Communications Commission requesting a permanent exemption...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced James Maurice McCants, age 42, of Baltimore, today to 92 months in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine. Co-defendants Eddie Eusebio...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a federal jury found a Rwandan national guilty of refusing to leave the country after being ordered to depart.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Aldair Garcia-Miranda, a/k/a “Callado" and “Poseido," age 21, of Wheaton, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise known as La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, including a murder; attempted murder in aid of racketeering; and carrying, using, brandishing, and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska-U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that two men have been sentenced by United States District Court Judge Sharon L. Gleason to serve 96 and 120 months in prison respectively for their roles in a conspiracy to sell large quantities of cocaine and methamphetamine to Alaska-based drug dealers.
By State Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This week, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) joined Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), House Republican Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and others to honor Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), the first woman to chair the House Foreign Affairs Committee, during an unveiling ceremony of Ros-Lehtinen’s official portrait.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Jason Melchionda, 35, of Chelsea, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor to 108 months in prison and four years of supervised release. In May 2015, Melchionda pleaded guilty to distributing over 1 kilogram of heroin between March 2013 and August 2013.
By State Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement regarding the ongoing hostage situation at the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two Pennsylvania residents and two New Yorkers have been charged in an Indictment by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh with violations of federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: In celebration of Thanksgiving and as a way to encourage healthy outdoor time, Mount Rainier and Olympic National Parks will offer free entry to all park areas on Friday, November 27.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: Theodore J. Longust, 50, formerly from Columbia, Illinois, was indicted on Nov. 18, 2015, by a federal grand jury in East St. Louis, Illinois, in a nine count Indictment charging: Count 1: Financial Institution Fraud; Counts 2 - 5: Misapplication of Funds; Counts 6 - 8: Money Laundering; and Count...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), and Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO) today commented on the inclusion of additional 3.0 liter diesel engines in the Environmental Protection Agency’s investigation of Volkswagen’s emissions cheating.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Kodiak man was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for one count of trafficking narcotics. Teodoro Berdan, 55, of Kodiak, Alaska, had previously pled guilty on July 20, 2015, to one count of possession with intent to distribute over 100 grams of a mixture and substance containing methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: Bakersfield, California, Police Narcotics Detective Charged with Bribery, Drug Trafficking, Obstruction and Filing False Tax Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced an Irondale man to seven years in prison for identity theft and stealing about $1.7 million in U.S. Treasury checks, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Veronica Hyman-Pillot.
By State Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement on the terrorist attack in Mali...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - Anthony Redd, age 32, of Troy, New York, was sentenced today to 24 months of imprisonment for distributing crack cocaine, announced by Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, New York Division, Drug Enforcement (DEA) and United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - SANDRA SALDANA, of Dallas, Texas, was sentenced yesterday to serve 124 months in federal prison for defrauding several payroll companies, including a metro business, and for filing false federal income tax returns, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. Saldana was also ordered to pay $526,667.19 in restitution to 11 payroll companies and the IRS.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: Today the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Forest Service announced that they plan to adopt the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission-prepared Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Jordan Cove Energy and Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline Projects. The protest period is being extended to allow...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - Civic, religious and community leaders joined top law enforcement personnel today to continue an ongoing dialogue about building trust between law enforcement and the Chicagoland community.
