News from April 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2014
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On Friday, April 11, 2014, Sergio Maldonado-Butler, age 29, of Avoca, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 12 months and 1 day imprisonment for failing to register with the sex offender registry, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Judge Rose also ordered Maldonado-Butler to serve a five-year term of supervised release following incarceration.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2014
News Release: Used Clients Personal Information To Submit False Claims For Refunds.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., released the following statement on the departure of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, April 11, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Alfonso Hayden, 45, of Oakland, California, who pled guilty on Sept. 25, 2013, in federal court, to being a supply source of marijuana and cocaine, as well as money laundering for...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2014
News Release: For St Augustine, the Civil War was to be truly devastating, but in 1863 the full ramifications of Secession on the Nation’s oldest city were only just being realized.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, David W. Bourne, Special Agent in Charge, Food and Drug Administration, Office of Criminal Investigations, Miami Field Office...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2014
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley III, United States Attorney for the Middle District, announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Aaron Edwin (39, Riverview) and Michael Allen (42, Sarasota) with conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute 100 kilograms or more of marijuana. If convicted, each faces a maximum penalty of 40 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return by a grand jury of an indictment charging Mario Javon Heatly (32, Jacksonville) with human trafficking, drug, and firearms offenses. If convicted on all counts, Heatly faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. The indictment also notifies Heatly that the United States intends to forfeit three firearms recovered by law enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Deborah Williamson, 36, a former resident of Wheelock who now lives in Florida, pleaded not guilty yesterday in United States District Court in Burlington to a charge that she embezzled about $70,000 from her ex-employer. U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy released Williamson on conditions pending trial, which has not been scheduled.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) released the following statements after the full Senate confirmed the nomination of Dr. Reggie Brothers to be Under Secretary for Science and Technology for the Department of Homeland Security and Brigadier General Frank Taylor to be Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis for the Department of Homeland Security. Both nominations were confirmed by voice vote.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced the approval of a solar energy project in Imperial County, California, that is expected to supply a peak output of 20 megawatts of renewable energy, enough to power about 6,000 homes, and support up to 120 construction jobs.The proposed Ocotillo Sol...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2014
News Release: Defendant Used Information From Friends And Family To Defraud IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announces that it has reached a settlement in the civil forfeiture matter involving the previous home of the Harmony Spa at 5649 Williston Road, in Williston, Vermont. In a complaint filed on June 28, 2013, the United States alleged...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 11, 2014
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are developing innovative techniques to combat one of the world's worst invasive species, the red imported fire ant.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Glenn A. Smith, Jr., 37, of Silver Spring, Md., was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 22-year-old woman in 2010, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2014
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that yesterday in federal court, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced JOHN PAUL SMITH, aged 48, of Whiteville, North Carolina to 24 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, April 11, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LORETTA SENECA, 51, of Boynton Beach, Fla., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Jose A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announce that Geto...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2014
News Release: Jackson, Miss - William D. “Butch" Dickson, 58, of Jackson, was indicted by a federal grand jury on April 8, 2014 on six counts of bankruptcy fraud, six counts of bank fraud and five counts of wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2014
News Release: Beginning in June 2014, Haleakalā National Park will host a series of Native Hawaiian cultural programs and performances in the Kīpahulu and Summit Districts of the park. The park seeks cultural practitioners who will demonstrate Native Hawaiian crafts or arts and engage visitors during their activity. Schools and community groups are especially encouraged to apply.
