News from February 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two cheese companies and a cheese company executive pleaded guilty in federal court today to charges relating to their introduction of adulterated and misbranded cheese products into interstate commerce, U.S. Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced that investigations into recent drug overdose deaths have resulted in federal heroin distribution...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Jimmy Edward Villa, 41, of Lubbock, Texas, was sentenced this morning by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 15 years in federal prison, following his guilty plea in October 2015 to one count of production of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By State Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement on reports that the Pentagon is planning to send U.S. Special Forces as advisers to Nigeria...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury found Edward N. Feldman, M.D., guilty of conspiring to dispense controlled substances for no legitimate medical purpose and outside the usual course of professional practice, dispensing controlled substances that...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell yesterday sentenced Bryan Shane Sneed (42, Lutz) to 20 years in prison for the attempted enticement of a minor for sex, and for possession of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. The Court also ordered him to serve a 20-year term of supervision and to register as a sex offender upon his release from prison. Sneed was found guilty by a federal jury on August 7, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: James Burke Admits to Assaulting Handcuffed Suspect in December 2012 and Orchestrating an Extensive Cover-up to Obstruct the Federal Civil Rights Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: Two Former Executives of Houston-Based Oil Supply Company Plead Guilty to Fraud in Illegal Kickback Scheme.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today announced that the subcommittee will continue its oversight of both the Federal Communications Commission and the administration’s work to transition certain oversight functions of the Internet to multi-stakeholder governance.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Haughton bank employee was sentenced Thursday to 42 months in prison for embezzling more than $1.7 million from the bank where he worked.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Eugene Kuhn, 52, a member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Littlewater, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to assaulting a federal officer with a dangerous weapon. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Kuhn will be sentenced to 18 months in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On Feb. 26, 2016, former Puerto Rico Police Officer Francisco Martinez-Mercado was found guilty of Conspiracy to Deprive a Person of his Civil Rights, announced United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez. United States District Judge Francisco A. Besosa presided over the trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: A Miami-Dade woman is charged with stealing immigration application payments from her clients when she prepared at least 146 fraudulent petitions filed with United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: Tampa, FL - The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida entered a consent decree of permanent injunction against James R. Hill, of Ocala, Florida, to prevent the distribution of unapproved drugs masquerading as a cure for the herpes virus, the Department of Justice announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: TUPELO, MS - A special program of dulcimer music will be provided by the North Mississippi Dulcimer Association from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 5, 2016, at the Parkway Visitor Center located at milepost 266 near Tupelo, Mississippi.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: At a hearing on the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), members of the Committee on Education and the Workforce questioned Acting Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. about how the Department of Education plans to implement the law in a manner consistent with the letter and intent of the law. Focusing ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: WILMINGTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that yesterday, Feb. 25, 2016, Senior United States District James C. Fox entered judgment against TONYA MARIE BATTLE, 37, of Greenville, North Carolina, sentencing her to serve a total of 90 months...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Attempted Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, Attempted Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet, and Transfer of Obscene Material to a Minor.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today announced that the subcommittee will continue its oversight of both the Federal Communications Commission and the administration’s work to transition certain oversight functions of the Internet to multi-stakeholder governance.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2016
News Release: PANAMA CITY/PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Defendants in seven cases were arraigned this week in federal court after a grand jury returned indictments charging them with firearms-related crimes. The indictments were announced by Christopher P. Canova, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
