News from October 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued a statement following the Treasury Department’s announcement of proposed regulations to ensure marriage equality under the U.S. Tax Code...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: El Día de los Muertos, also known as All Soul's Day, has roots in many traditions including the customs of native residents, mission-era Jesuit and Franciscan priests, Spanish colonists, Mexican settlers, and even citizens of the United States arriving in the 19th century. "Tumacácori is proud to celebrate this beloved holiday with friends, neighbors, and visitors from around the world." says Superintendent Bob Love.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: Jackson, Miss - U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today that members of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi and their law enforcement partners met with students at Whitten Preparatory Middle School as part of his office’s first annual Student Pledge Against Gun Violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: POCATELLO - Gerardo Botello, 37, of Idaho Falls, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill to 48 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for distribution of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Botello pleaded guilty to the charge on July 16, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: A man who distributed heroin to a user who nearly died from an overdose was sentenced Oct. 19, 2015, to fourteen years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: Allegedly Pretended to be a Teenage Boy to Entice Minors to Engage in Sexually Explicit Conduct and Conversations Using Social Media.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: On Oct. 20, 2015, a federal grand jury sitting in East St. Louis, Illinois, indicted Jenna McGlasson, 28, of Caseyville, Illinois, for one count of Interference with Commerce by Robbery, which is a violation of the Hobbs Act, and for one count of Brandishing a Firearm During a Crime of Violence, in...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Senior United States District Judge Henry Lee Adams has sentenced Timothy Deante Burroughs (32, Jacksonville) to 21 months in federal prison for passing counterfeit Federal Reserve Notes. As part of the sentence, the Court also ordered Burroughs to pay restitution to the various businesses that he had defrauded.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, responded to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that found the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) made $416 million in overpayments in fiscal year 2014, affecting...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Phillip Thomas McGowans, age 27, of Brooklyn, Maryland, today to 12 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for robbery. Judge Bennett also entered an order that McGowans pay $2,214.60 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Attorney General Loretta Lynch recognized 279 Justice Department employees and 33 individuals, including 15 people in the Southern District of Texas (SDTX), with Attorney General Awards at a ceremony today in Washington DC. These annual awards recognize department employees and other individuals for their dedication to carrying out the Department of Justice’s mission.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles and Special Agent in Charge David A. Thomas of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Special Agent in Charge Dan Salter of the Drug Enforcement Administration stated that 19 individuals have been recently indicted and arrested for conspiring...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: As part of President Obama's all-of-the-above strategy to continue to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oil and gas lease auction today netted more than $28.5 million in revenues from the sale of 16 Federal leases in the States of New Mexico and...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that TRACY C. HARTMAN, 49, of Slidell, pled guilty today to a one-count Bill of Information charging her with lying to federal agents.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: ELIZABETH CITY - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today United States District Judge Terrance W. Boyle sentenced WILLIAM TOWNER AKERS, 46 of Raleigh, North Carolina, to 210 months followed by lifetime supervision and a $20,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Luke D. Brugnara was sentenced yesterday to seven years in prison after his conviction for mail fraud, wire fraud, false declarations to a court, escape, and contempt of court, announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson, and U.S. Marshal Don O’Keefe.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that BRANDON MICHAEL JONES, age 37 and PHILLIP EARL AMEY, a/k/a Crazy, age 34, both of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, pled guilty to DRUG CONSPIRACY, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(l) and 841(b)(l)(A), punishable by not less than 10 years or more than Life imprisonment, up to a $20,000,000.00 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: Florence, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Paul David Arrington, age 46, of Lowell, North Carolina and Amy Lynette Arrington, age 44, of Lowell, North Carolina each pled guilty in federal court in Florence, to conspiracy to communicate a false distress message...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Jorge Delgado, a/k/a Antonio Martinez, a/k/a Elisaul Martinez Santana, 28, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl and three counts of distribution of heroin. U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV scheduled sentencing for Jan. 13, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: A former cargo operations manager at Miami International Airport was sentenced to 50 months in prison for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine.
