News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Western District of New York. Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Gerald Lee Banks, age 40, of Baltimore, today to 12 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion. Judge Bredar also ordered that upon his release...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md. - The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO) today announced a new grant program that will provide opportunities for researchers to turn promising NIST technologies and know-how into entrepreneurial careers and high-tech businesses.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security, released the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced the former president of the federal employees union at Birmingham's Veterans Affairs Hospital to six months in prison, plus six months home detention for embezzling more than $92,000 from the local chapter. U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, U.S. Department...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) issued the following statement after U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew sent a letter today to Rep. Levin, informing him that Treasury plans to issue additional guidance later this week to help curb corporate inversions...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Greg Leon, age 49, of Lexington, South Carolina, pleaded guilty to engaging in a pattern and practice of hiring illegal aliens, a violation of 8 U.S.C. §§ 1324a(a)(2) and 1324a(f)(1). Senior United States District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal judge today sentenced a Lisle man to 16 years in prison for putting at least 80 firearms into the hands of known gang members on the streets of Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: Barbara Stanley, 62, of Nottingham, PA, was sentenced yesterday to three years in prison after conviction at trial of five counts of wire fraud, two counts of theft of government funds, one count of making false statements, and two counts of making false statements regarding workers' compensation benefits, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Daniel S. McGarvey, 45, a teacher from Uniontown, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 46 months in prison after he traveled to West Virginia with the intent to engage in sexual conduct with a minor, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ORONDE GABRIEL, age 31, of New Orleans, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to one count of conspiring to falsify ATF records related to the purchase of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Chris Arthur Perry, Jr., 25, of Chesapeake, and Gregory Paul Wingard, Jr., 27, of Norfolk, pleaded guilty today for their roles in a conspiracy to steal valuable items from passengers’ bags at the Norfolk International Airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney Kenyen Brown announces that Brian Little, a 36 year old resident of Theodore, Alabama was sentenced today to 15 months incarceration followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to pass and utter counterfeit currency at local businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Bossier City man pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Enrique Hernandez, 44, of Artesia, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 120 months in prison for his conviction on federal firearms and methamphetamine trafficking charges. Hernandez will be on supervised release for five years following his term of incarceration.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service at the Eisenhower National Historic Site and the Gettysburg Foundation invite you to celebrate this holiday season at the home and farm of Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower. The Eisenhower home will be decorated for Christmas, December 1 through 31, 2015. The celebration includes...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - After a five-day trial, a federal jury today found John James Kash, 52, of Redding, guilty of three counts of conspiracy to distribute marijuana, manufacturing marijuana, and conspiracy to launder money, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. The trial was held before United States District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jeremy Ingersoll-Meserve, 38, of Waldoboro, Maine pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute cocaine base, commonly known as, crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: Indictment Charges Defendants With Sale of Firearms, Assault Rifles, Heroin, Cocaine and Marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Convicted sex offender Richard Doman, 46, of Lorain, Ohio, was convicted in federal court today after he failed to properly update his registration status, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
