News from October 2015
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: An ISB Special Agent helps honor a fallen Civil War soldier.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of October 19.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - District Judge J. Michael Seabright today sentenced former Honolulu Police Officer Vincent Morre, 38, to 30 months in prison for violating the civil rights of two Honolulu men. On May 19, 2015, Morre pleaded guilty to two counts of depriving the two men’s right to be free from the use of unreasonable force by a law enforcement officer on Sept. 5, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Jason Gregory Colley, 36, of Luray, was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for tampering with evidence for moving the body of a drug overdose victim. Colley was also ordered to pay $17,175.70 in restitution to the family of Jason Laytham, who died of a drug overdose, to cover funeral expenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Chad Allen Workman, 37, of Beverly, West Virginia, was convicted in federal court today for his role in an oxycodone and marijuana distribution operation, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that STEVE ARBY CHANDLER, II, age 45, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, pled guilty to FAILURE TO REGISTER AS SEX OFFENDER, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2250(a)(1), 2250(a)(2)(B) and 2250(a)(3).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester woman was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Worcester for making false statements to federal agents investigating federal child exploitation offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted six defendants on fraud and identity theft charges involving a scheme to fraudulently obtain unemployment insurance benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Patrick John Stone, 29, of Gloucester, Virginia was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger to serve 180 months in federal prison on child pornography production charges, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Stone was also placed on a lifetime of supervised release and was ordered to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: Three Palm Beach County residents recently pled guilty for their participation in a stolen identity tax fraud scheme involving at least 790 stolen identities.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: Used a Company They Controlled to Disguise Their Identity and Submit over 180 False Invoices Without Disclosing Conflict of Interest.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement on the announcement made today by the U.S. Department of the Interior that it will cancel the two potential Arctic offshore lease sales scheduled under the current five-year offshore oil and gas leasing program for 2012-2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: Defendant Sexually Abused the Victim Several Times a Week for Years.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Ashlyn Nichole Carothers, 23, of Cherokee, N.C. was sentenced on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015, to 180 months in prison for her involvement in a robbery on the Indian reservation, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger also ordered Carothers to serve three years of supervised release and to pay $30,166.45 as restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Raymond A. Vanvalkenburg, 31, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced on Oct. 16, 2015, to 137 months in prison by Senior United States District Judge Joseph Bataillon. Vanvalkenburg had previously pled guilty after Omaha police officers arrested him...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A Kenilworth businessman has been indicted on charges he evaded federal income taxes by concealing $3 million he earned in connection with a high-rise real estate deal in downtown Chicago, federal authorities announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - In a case stemming from the beating of a handcuffed man at Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles, a sixth member of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department was indicted today on federal charges for allegedly participating in the cover-up of the violent incident.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury indicted William H. Steinhaus IV, age 33, of Brunswick, Maryland, yesterday for sexual exploitation of a child and distributing child pornography.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of October 19.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Reclamation is seeking applications from congressionally authorized sponsors of Title XVI Water Reclamation and Reuse projects for cost-shared funding to plan, design or construct their projects. The funding opportunity is part of Reclamation's activity under the Department of the Interior's WaterSMART initiative, which focuses on improving water conservation, sustainability and helping water resource managers make sound decisions about water use.
