News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS - On Oct. 22, 2015, the team that investigated Jack and Peter DeCoster and their egg company following a national foodborne illness outbreak were honored at the 18th Annual Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) awards ceremony in Washington D.C. The team...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Defendant Used Stolen Information of Beneficiaries with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities to file Fraudulent Medicaid Reimbursement Claims.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Dominic Evans, a/k/a “FlatLine," age 25, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise in connection with his gang activities as a member of the UDH organization, which operates in the Cherry Hill section of Baltimore.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: On Oct. 16, 2015, BLM Deputy Director Steve Ellis presented BLM-Idaho Deputy State Director for Resources Jeff Foss the Department of the Interior Meritorious Service Award in recognition of his outstanding efforts, professionalism and exemplary leadership and service. Throughout Foss's 35-year federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: In San Antonio, federal authorities have arrested two individuals indicted on federal charges in connection with a scheme to provide drivers’ licenses to undocumented aliens announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced today that Jamie Hilow, age 28, of Winchester, New Hampshire pleaded guilty before United States District Judge Landya B. McCafferty to Conspiracy to Distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 846 and 841.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
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 made the following statement congratulating Kosova on its European Union (EU) Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) and expressing concern over recent violent protests...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican woman pleaded guilty yesterday to smuggling nearly five kilograms of cocaine concealed in a wheelchair into the United States at Boston’s Logan International Airport. The cocaine had a street value of more than $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Frank T. Pimentel, who is handling the case, stated that between May 7, 2013 and Sept. 26, 2013, the defendant conspired with co-defendant Fannie Long to distribute controlled substances. Specifically, while Long was incarcerated on other charges, Quisenberry filled a fentanyl...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - Jamie Vincent Ward, 38, of Bronson, Florida, was sentenced late yesterday to 7 years in prison for two charges of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that multiple defendants from southern West Virginia plead guilty to federal drug charges. Two defendants from Beckley and one defendant from Oak Hill entered their guilty pleas in federal court in Beckley, West Virginia. These crimes involved the unlawful distribution of drugs and the illegal facilitation of drug sales.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement regarding the introduction of a bipartisan budget agreement...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced David C. Andrews, age 52, of Salisbury, Maryland, today to 6 years in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for distribution of child pornography. Judge Bennett also ordered that Andrews must continue to register as a sex...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today the arrest of multiple individuals indicted for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - This morning a U.S. District Court Judge sitting in Las Cruces, N.M., sentenced Jessie Hopper, Sr., 55, and Polly Hopper, 61, of Deming, N.M., to lengthy prison terms for their convictions on conspiracy, kidnapping and firearms charges. Hopper, Sr. was sentenced to 366 months (30.5 years) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On October 5, 2015, Monte A. Cox, age 55, appeared before the Honorable Stephen B. Jackson, Jr., and pled guilty to filing a false tax return for the year 2009, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today examined the effects of the Obama administration’s controversial proposed Stream Protection Rule. The proposed rule, which would severely affect coal mining activities adjacent to streams and other bodies of water, has been the subject of extensive controversy and likely will lead to extensive litigation if implemented as drafted.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: “Mr. Chairman, I oppose H.R. 2834 because of serious concerns that I have about the process by which this legislation comes before us today as well its substance.
