News published on Federal Newswire in October 2015

News from October 2015


Linn Johnson Sentenced for Child Pornography

News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Linn Johnson, age 40, of Michigan City, Indiana, was sentenced Thursday, October 8, 2015, in federal court by Judge Robert L. Miller,Jr. after his guilty plea to possession of child pornography.


News Release: Bluefield, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Scotty Edward Blankenship was sentenced in federal court in Bluefield yesterday to 27 months in federal prison for using a telephone to facilitate the sale of hydromorphone. Blankenship, 54, of Princeton, pled guilty in June of 2015...


News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced that a California man and a New Jersey man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati in connection with the prosecution of a nationwide prescription drug diversion scheme.


News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich has sentenced Jeremy Wayne Sumpter (31, Garland, TX) to 12 months and one day in federal prison for knowingly aiming a laser at an aircraft. He pleaded guilty on March 24, 2015.


Reclamation Announces Public Comment Period for 16 Draft Interim Renewal Water Service Contracts

News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation proposes to execute 16 Central Valley Project interim renewal water service contracts for two-year terms to begin March 1, 2016. Public comments are due by Monday, Dec. 14, 2015, on the Cross Valley Canal, Delta Division and American River Division contracts. The existing interim renewal water service contracts will expire on Feb. 29, 2016. The proposed contracts will allow Reclamation to continue providing water service to


Committee Releases Draft Proposal to Keep Families Safe on the Road

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today released a number of staff drafted proposals as part of the committee’s ongoing work to keep families safe on America’s roads. The subcommittee has...


News Release: CHICAGO - The former owner of Edgewater Medical Center on Chicago’s North Side was sentenced today to 21 months in federal prison for his efforts to thwart collection of more than $188 million in civil judgments.


Bipartisan House & Senate Tech Leaders Press Commerce Dept., FTC on Need to Protect Data Flows in Wake of European ‘Safe Harbor’ Ruling

News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), the chairman and ranking member of the House Committee on...


News Release: (GREENBELT, - Md. - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Cornelius Maurice Jackson, a/k/a “Buddy Love" and “Buddy," age 43, of Washington, D.C., today to 11 years in prison followed by four years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute and possession with intent to distribute cocaine base. Judge Chasanow also entered an order that Jackson forfeit $9,100.


Berkeley County, WV man convicted of heroin trafficking

News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Joseph Perry, 30, of Gerrardstown, West Virginia, was convicted of heroin trafficking in federal court, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.


News Release: St. George, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) St. George Field Office today announced an extension of the public comment period for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) analyzing two National Conservation Area (NCA) Draft Resource Management Plans (RMPs) and a Draft Amendment to the current St. George Field Office RMP.


News Release: Bugat Botnet Administrator Arrested and Malware Disabled.


News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 I commend the U.S. Secret Service, together with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey, for their outstanding work in the apprehension and extradition of yet another alleged cyber criminal—Sergey Vovnenko. Vovnenko, a Ukrainian ...


News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 On Oct. 14-15, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson will travel to Mexico City to meet with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, Secretary of Interior Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, and Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu regarding collective efforts to secure our borders, combat transnational criminal activity, and promote lawful trade and travel between the United States and Mexico.


Interior, USDA Officials Join U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein for Public Meeting on Conservation of Mojave Desert

News Release: Officials hear from local and tribal communities on Feinstein's proposals to conserve Southern California's Mojave Desert public lands WHITEWATER, Calif. - U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael Connor and USDA Under Secretary Robert Bonnie today visited the Mojave Desert of California to join a public meeting and hear from the community about its vision for the management of public lands in the region.


News Release: The Justice Department announced today the filing of a lawsuit against Nebraska Beef Ltd., which is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, for failing to comply with the terms of a settlement agreement that the parties entered to resolve a civil rights investigation.


News Release: Two residents of Hammond, Louisiana, were sentenced for their involvement in a stolen identity tax fraud scheme, Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite of the Eastern District of Louisiana announced today.


News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that Pitney Bowes Presort Services Inc. (Pitney Bowes) has agreed to pay the United States $9.4 million to resolve allegations that it underpaid postage for mail processed at its Reading, Pennsylvania, facility by claiming discounts to which it was not entitled. ...


News Release: A sophisticated malware package designed to steal banking and other credentials from infected computers has been disrupted, and charges have been filed in the Western District of Pennsylvania against a Moldovan administrator of the botnet known as “Bugat,” “Cridex” or “Dridex.” Actions taken by the U.K. and the U.S. substantially disrupted the botnet.


News Release: The Justice Department announced today that the former Mamou, Louisiana, Police Chief Gregory W. Dupuis was sentenced to one year and one day in prison, and former Mamou Police Officer and Chief Robert McGee pleaded guilty to one count of the deprivation of rights under color of law, both for their roles ...