News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: STEUBENVILLE, Ohio - A grand jury in Columbus, Ohio has charged seven individuals for their roles in a Steubenville-area heroin-trafficking operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - APL Limited has agreed to pay the government $9.8 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act in connection with a contract to provide GPS tracking of shipping containers in Afghanistan, the Justice Department announced today. APL, an ocean carrier based in Scottsdale, Arizona, is a wholly-owned American subsidiary of Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines Limited.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and U.S. Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA) introduced the Security and Financial Empowerment (SAFE) Act of 2015. The SAFE Act builds on progress made through legislation like the Violence Against Women Act and the Affordable Care Act to continue raising awareness and breaking down the economic barriers that domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking create for survivors and their families.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy C. Lynch, who is handling the case, stated that Conklin and co-defendant Charles Sanford robbed Mary Whitaker inside her Sherman, NY home on Aug. 20, 2014. The two men approached the victim’s home and Sanford rang the doorbell. Soon after Whitaker answered the door, Conklin shot and killed her. Conklin and Sanford then stole her vehicle and drove it to Erie, Pennsylvania where they were arrested on Aug. 22, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: A man who possessed child pornography pled guilty yesterday in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: In early August, the Finance Committee released the final report on its bipartisan investigation into the IRS’s processing of applications from for tax-exempt status. Our investigation looked back at the period between 2010 and 2013. The committee reviewed one and a half million pages of emails and documents and conducted interviews with more than 30 IRS officials. This was the only bipartisan inquiry on either side of Capitol Hill.
By State Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today submitted the following statement into the Congressional Record supporting the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident of has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of bank robbery, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Natick man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with selling heroin and white heroin - heroin laced with fentanyl and/or straight fentanyl - to addicts, one of whom ultimately died after overdosing.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Defendant Among Three Arrested After Crack Cocaine Found in Home.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Erik Andrew Lotvedt, age 30, of Booneville, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 25 years in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release after pleading guilty to the one-count Information...
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Chairman Duncan Hunter (R-CA). Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation. Hearing on “The Prevention of and Response to the Arrival of a Dirty Bomb at a U.S. Port". Oct. 27, 2015. Opening Statement. (Remarks as Prepared). The Subcommittee is meeting today to discuss the scenario of a dirty...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Natchitoches man was sentenced to 72 months in prison for possessing methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Jessie Hopper, Sr., and Polly Hopper were Prosecuted under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative for Kidnapping a Woman in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and Transporting Her to Deming, New Mexico, where she was Repeatedly Sexually Assaulted.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following statement after House and Senate leaders reached a budget agreement...
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: The House of Representatives today approved bipartisan legislation that funds and extends the authorization for federal highway and transit programs through November 20th, and that prevents a shutdown of the U.S. rail transportation system by extending the deadline for implementation of Positive Train Control technology.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Casey Swain, 37, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with bank robbery. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Lawrence Alexander Tidwell, 32, of Coarsegold, was sentenced Monday by United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii to eight years in prison for cultivating marijuana and being a felon in possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that on Friday, Oct. 23, 2015 in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced Benjamine fitzgerald ransome, 42, of Rocky Mount, North Carolina to 45 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Jennifer Napier, 39, of East Bank, West Virginia was sentenced today in federal court in Charleston to one year and one day, as well as three years supervised release, for straw purchasing a firearm for a person she knew to be a...
