News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Paula K. Green, 42, of Columbus, Ohio, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Beckley to passing counterfeit $100 bills. Green admitted to passing the counterfeit money in Beckley and Charleston, West Virginia. In Beckley, Green passed...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced David Chris Simms, age 39, of Suitland, Maryland, today to 130 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Jeffrey Dale Harrison, 28, of Rock Springs, Wyoming, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on Oct. 23, 2015, for being an unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of a firearm and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person subject to domestic violence...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: The former postmaster of the Gates Mills Post Office was sentenced to 10 months in prison and ordered to repay approximately $57,000 that she stole, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Monica Weyler, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Postal Service -- Office of Inspector General, Eastern Area Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Betty Jo Tudor, 35, of Alkol, West Virginia, was sentenced today in federal court in Charleston to five years of probation for obtaining hydrocodone by fraud. Tudor, a former nurse at Sweetbriar Assisted Living in Dunbar, West Virginia, previously pled guilty and admitted that in June of 2013 she stole hydrocodone intended for patients for her own personal use and falsified records to cover up the theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: A man accused of multiple felony crimes in three separate shooting incidents earlier this year has been sentenced to prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS - Three local police officers were honored today by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for their commitment to reducing drug abuse in their communities. The recipients of the 2015 Enrique S. Camarena Award are Detective Jerry Blomgren and Officer David Schwindt of the Iowa City Police Department, and Sergeant David Dostal of the Cedar Rapids Police Department.
By State Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JIMY NAHUN NUÑEZ-IZAGUIRRE, age 31, a citizen of Honduras, was charged today in a one-count Bill of Information with illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of November 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Anthony Parent, 22, of Milford, Maine, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Mahwah, New Jersey, woman was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for pretending to be an employee of the United States in order to defraud investors out of $4 million, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), was invited to speak on “Enhancing Community Bonds" at Agueda Johnston Middle School’s Youth and Parent “Change for the Better" Symposium, held on Feb. 28, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the sentencing of ROBERT JAMES SCHUELLER, 30, to five years in prison. SCHUELLER was charged by Information and pleaded guilty on May 26, 2015, to devising a plot to harm his former paramour’s fiancé. He was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Richard H. Kyle in United States District Court in St. Paul, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: DAYTON - A federal grand jury has charged William M. Apostelos, 54, and Connie M. Apostelos, 50, both formerly of Springboro, Ohio, with charges related to fraudulently inducing hundreds of individuals from around the country to invest $70 million collectively.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Used Account Access and Other Employee Identities to Steal More Than $500,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the sentencing of CHARLES JAMES JONES, 50, to 27 years in prison. JONES was convicted by a jury on March 10, 2015, after a seven-day trial, of burning his girlfriend alive while she was unconscious. JONES was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in St. Paul by U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, Mo. - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) today announced the arrest of David Lopez Jackson.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following statement after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized codes for advance care planning in the upcoming final 2016 Physician Fee Schedule, which would allow physicians to be reimbursed for these services. Advanced care planning helps patients and their families discuss end-of-life medical care preferences with their providers.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Superintendent Randy King advises that Mount Rainier National Park has begun preparations for a significant weather event that is expected this weekend. Visitor access will be impacted and evacuations could become necessary.
