News from February 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that Sunshine Marie McEwen (41, Atlantic Beach) has been indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with failing to register as a sex offender after traveling from Florida to California. If convicted, she faces up to 10 years in federal prison. McEwen was arrested in Palm Springs, California on Nov. 28, 2015, and is currently in state custody in Jacksonville.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The former president of Freedom Industries was sentenced today to 30 days in federal prison, to be followed by a six-month term of supervised release, and a $20,000 fine for environmental crimes connected to the 2014 Elk River chemical spill, announced Acting United States Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Steven Donald Wood Faces up to Three Years in Prison and has forfeited $1.5 Million.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -Today, U.S. Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) led a group of more than 30 Democratic Senators in filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on the need to protect women’s access to affordable birth control. The brief was filed ahead of next month’s arguments...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Brandon Johnson, 26, of Stockton, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for distributing methamphetamine and selling firearms without a license, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Dear Secretary Lew: As the chairmen of the Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee, we are charged with overseeing the organization and operation of the Department of the Treasury.[1] The Committees believe it is important to ensure that Treasury is in compliance with Federal hiring...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Greene County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to time served (12 months) on his conviction of damaging of an energy facility, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Defendant Used Identities of Others and False Financial Information to Obtain a Small Business Loan, and Then Used Some of the Loan Proceeds to Buy a House Instead.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced today the sentencing of a man who previously pled guilty to charges related to the manufacturing and distribution of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Richard Graham, 37, of Bronx, New York was sentenced yesterday for having possessed with intent to distribute 28 grams or more of cocaine base in Vermont. United States District Judge Geoffrey Crawford sentenced Graham to 70 months in prison, to be followed by four years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Ebony J. Smith, 37, of Alton, Illinois, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Jan. 20, 2016, on two counts of Theft of Government Funds and two counts of False Statement, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James L. Porter, announced today. Smith was arraigned...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Ramiro Serrata Jr., 23, and Jimmy Garza, 33, were each sentenced to 15 years in federal prison following their convictions of hate crime offenses for their roles in a Mar. 8, 2012, assault of a gay African-American man in Corpus Christi, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew yesterday sentenced Seguiel Medrano (31, Dade City) to 17 years in federal prison for drug distribution and firearm charges. Medrano pleaded guilty on Oct. 15, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Brandon Johnson, 26, of Stockton, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for distributing methamphetamine and selling firearms without a license, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) is participating in a media call on Thursday afternoon to discuss a new public survey showing strong support from Arizona residents for the creation of a new national monument to protect the Grand Canyon watershed and honor the region’s rich...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Piedmont, South Dakota, man has pleaded guilty in federal court to Failure to Withhold, Properly Account For, and Pay Over Tax and Concealment of Bankruptcy Assets.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Honora Gordon, Special Agent in Charge of the Northeast Region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Office of Law Enforcement, announced that THOMAS KAPUSTA, 63, of Westbury, N.Y., pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: TYLER, Texas - U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced that an East Texas pain management physician has pleaded guilty to illegally dispensing controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that MIGUEL MEAD, 33, of Schenectady, N.Y, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 41 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for selling jewelry that was stolen in a Connecticut home burglary.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A member of the La Familia Gang, a national gang with a significant presence in Holyoke and Springfield, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Springfield for possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number while being a convicted felon.
