News from September 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: Russian Agent Pleads Guilty to Leading Scheme to Illegally Export Controlled Technology to Russian Military.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-New York), Patrick Meehan (R-Pennsylvania), Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland), Peter T. King (R- New York), Mike Fitzpatrick (R-Pennsylvania), Robin Kelly (D-Illinois), Dan Donovan (R- New York), and Tammy Duckworth (D- Illinois) are re-introducing a bipartisan...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Tommy Ladon Burt, 41, of Evergreen, was sentenced today in federal court on a single charge of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Burt pled guilty to the charge in April of this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: FRANKFORT - Yesterday, a federal judge sentenced a California man to 13 years in federal prison for his role in an oil investment scheme in Kentucky that defrauded over 200 investors, nationwide, out of more than $3,000,000.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing on “Oversight of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)." The committee has a long tradition of conducting...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Separate indictments were unsealed today charging four current and two former correctional officers for the Philadelphia Prison System with attempting to deliver OxyContin pills and, in some cases, a cellular telephone to inmates in exchange for cash payments. Each defendant is charged...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: Memphis, TN - A 22-year-old member of the Gangster Disciples has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for felony possession of a firearm. The sentencing was announced today by Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - William Kinsley, 67, of Langhorne, PA, was sentenced today to 135 months in prison for distribution of child pornography. Kinsley, a retired Lieutenant with the Philadelphia Fire Department, used the screen name “fire," to troll the Internet for child pornography and re-distribute some of the illegal child pornography that he found. He pleaded guilty on Feb. 17, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that AKEIN SCOTT, a/k/a “Keemy," age 22; SHAWN SCOTT, a/k/a “Shizzle," age 26; and STANLEY SCOTT, a/k/a “Stizzle," age 23, all pled guilty today in the racketeering conspiracy case involving the Frenchmen/Derbigny gang, or “FnD.".
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: Minneapolis Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to ISIL.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Miguel Angel Osuna-Zavala, 42, and his wife Diane Osuna, 43, of Wendell, Idaho, pleaded guilty today to federal firearm and drug charges, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. The couple appeared before Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge in Boise to enter their pleas. Miguel Osuna-Zavala...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Two former Roxse Homes employees were arrested today on charges that they conspired to rent apartments at the housing development in Roxbury to individuals who were not qualified for those apartments, in exchange for cash bribes.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health today held a hearing to review H.R. 1624, the Protecting Affordable Coverage for Employees (PACE) Act, authored by Subcommittee Vice Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-KY). This bipartisan legislation has more than 200 cosponsors in the House of Representatives and strong support in the Senate.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - Tevin Rashad Wright, a 27-year-old Grand Prairie, Texas, man with three prior felony convictions, has been sentenced to 96 months in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade, following his guilty plea in May 2015 to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas made the announcement this afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh-area resident has been sentenced in federal court to three years of probation, the first year of which will include a condition of home detention, on his conviction of violations of federal firearms and narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health today held a hearing to review H.R. 1624, the Protecting Affordable Coverage for Employees (PACE) Act, authored by Subcommittee Vice Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-KY). This bipartisan legislation has more than 200 cosponsors in the House of Representatives and strong support in the Senate.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) released a statement today after the Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General (DOT OIG) issued an audit report requested by the Committee on the effectiveness of the structural and organizational reforms implemented...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-Bruce Carlton Wright, 69, of Norman, was sentenced Tuesday by United States District Court Chief Judge Gregory K. Frizzell to 33 months in prison for defrauding the IBC Bank of $1,176,490.60, announced United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. of the Northern District of Oklahoma. As part of his sentence, a criminal forfeiture money judgment was entered against the defendant in the amount of $1,176,490.60.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Kevin Livsey, of Pittsburgh, pled guilty to heroin trafficking charges, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: On Thursday, September 10 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), will hold a hearing entitled, “Preventing and Responding to Sexual Assault on College Campuses." The hearing will take place in room 2261 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
