News from February 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: A Perry County man was sentenced on Feb. 10, 2016, to federal prison on explosives and firearms charges, James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: Postal Worker who Stole Warrants Issued by L.A. County also Pleads Guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Makwan Jaff, 36, of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge Nancy Torresen to two years in prison and three years of supervised release which will include up to one year of home confinement for interstate stalking. He pled guilty on Sept. 29, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Several West Virginians have contacted the United States Attorney’s Office about robocalls fraudulently claiming to be from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and demanding immediate payment, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. These calls are not from the IRS, and...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., in a Medium post, hailed the inclusion of the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act in the trade enforcement package passed by the Senate today. The new law will permanently prohibit taxes on Internet access and multiple and discriminatory taxes on digital goods and services. Wyden co-authored the original Internet Tax Freedom Act in 1998 with Congressman Chris Cox (R-Calif.). The law has since been extended eleven times.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Orlando G. Lucero, III, 44, of Alamogordo, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to three years of probation including eight months of home detention with location monitoring for violating the federal firearms laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a controlled substance and firearms. Court documents and testimony from law enforcement officers during today’s sentencing hearing also connected him to the murders of five individuals, including a mother and her 3-year-old daughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: Three other alleged gang members arrested and charged federally.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: On Feb. 11, 2016, Ronald Artis, 26, of Cahokia, Illinois, was sentenced in federal court in East St. Louis after having previously pled guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances and Interstate Travel In Support of Racketeering, James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a cable TV hunting show host was sentenced in Anchorage United States District Court to 16 months imprisonment for his role as a leader and guide in a multi-year poaching operation on the Noatak National Preserve.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: Phelps Prosecuted as Part of “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: “This bill is nothing more than a diversion. It requires the Treasury Department to provide to Congress information on the debt limit that we already receive, distracting from Republicans’ repeated recklessness about default and reinforcing the false belief that the debt limit is a tool for managing the debt.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - John Letcher Edens has been sentenced to one year in federal prison for impersonating a United States Marshal.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal indictment unsealed today charges a Chicago woman with giving a loaded.38 Special revolver to a minor, knowing that the minor would use it to commit a violent crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Martin W. Kennedy, 68, of Coatesville, PA, was arrested today on charges of preparing false tax returns and theft of government property, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy was arrested yesterday evening in Portland, Ore., and faces multiple felony charges filed in the District of Nevada related to the attempted cattle impoundment operation conducted by federal law enforcement officers near Bunkerville, Nev. in April 2014, according to U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO -A federal grand jury indicted Alan Weissman with bank fraud, wire fraud, theft or embezzlement from an employee pension benefit plan, and making false statements in documents required by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and the Employee Benefits Security Administration of the Department of Labor.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: Thank you, Secretary Burwell, for appearing before the Finance Committee to outline President Obama’s budget proposal for Health and Human Services one final time. Today I’d like us to begin to talk about how Congress and the administration can build on the Affordable Care Act. And I use that term because the list of the ACA’s achievements is long and growing.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - George Kindle, 29, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for delivering contraband to an inmate at The House of Corrections (HOC), in Philadelphia, where he worked at the time. On Oct. 11, 2013, and then again on Nov. 15, 2013, Kindle smuggled past prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - More than 45 current and former Georgia Department of Corrections officers and contract correctional officers have been charged in seven separate federal indictments with smuggling contraband into prisons and with accepting bribe payments in exchange for providing protection for drug deals that were part of a federal undercover operation.
