News from April 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - Edward L. Stanton III, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, has named Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian K. Coleman to lead the district’s Civil Rights Unit.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, PR - U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez announced the indictment and arrest of 41 defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of controlled substances. Today, ICE-HSI agents and officers of the Puerto Rico...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2014
News Release: National Park Service Rangers made voice contact with JR Kimbler and his two children early this morning approximately 2 miles off trail in Congaree National Park. Rangers have visually located the family and are working with SAR teams to safely rescue them from their off trail location.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - RYAN THAYER STEPHENS, Fenton, Missouri, was indicted for his alleged transportation and possession of child pornography. He appeared in federal court earlier today.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2014
News Release: Ways and Means Committee Republicans today voted to make 6 tax provisions permanent without any offset to the $310 billion cost of the measures, as estimated by the Joint Committee on Taxation. To put that figure into context, here’s how much it represents...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today opened Senate floor debate on the Minimum Wage Fairness Act, a bill he introduced to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour in three steps, then provide for automatic, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2014
News Release: Admits Aiding and Abetting Unlawful Acquisition and Transportation of Three Mountain Lions.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2014
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Yi Hui Chen, 47, a merchant in downtown Laredo, has been ordered to federal prison for trafficking in counterfeit goods and ordered to pay more than $400,000 in restitution, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today along with Janice Ayala, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Chen pleaded guilty May 16, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Derek and Danita Willis, 49 and 35, respectively, of Russellville, Arkansas, pleaded guilty today to taking part in a scheme, between January 2006 and January 2012 that defrauded the City of Philadelphia out of more than $1 million. The couple pleaded guilty to five counts of mail fraud...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 29, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) today urged the Obama administration and House Appropriations Committee leadership to increase support for students with disabilities by prioritizing federal funding for Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that yesterday a federal jury found James Fidel Sotolongo (48, Port Orange) guilty of one count of conspiracy and eleven counts of bank fraud. The jury found Stephanie Musselwhite (52, Daytona), a title agent in Orlando, guilty of...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Darius Nicholson, 33, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to a single-count indictment charging him with conspiracy to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, oxycodone and ecstasy pills.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of mail fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Christopher Payton, a former specialist for the Social Security Administration in Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to soliciting more than $50,000 in bribes from Social Security recipients in return for providing them with extra, unauthorized benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2014
News Release: ( - HONOLULU) - Defendants Roger Cusick Christie, 64, and Sherryanne L. Christie, 62, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Leslie E. Kobayashi on federal charges related to their role in the manufacture and distribution of marijuana in the Honolulu area. Roger Christie was sentenced to 60 months in prison and four years of supervised release. Sherryanne Christie was sentenced to 27 months in prison and three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2014
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. yesterday sentenced Demis Ulises Mokay-Fong (31, Orlando) to 19 and one-half years in federal prison for drug trafficking charges and illegally re-entering the United States after deportation. Mokay-Fong pleaded guilty to the offenses on Nov. 21, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - ANTHONY DAVIS, president of Mail Handlers Local 314, was indicted for his alleged embezzlement of approximately $40,660 of union funds.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 29, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), the Ranking Member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, issued the following statement today after the U.S. Department of Transportation put forward a multi-year proposal to fund the nation’s surface transportation programs...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 29, 2014
News Release: Chairman Duncan Hunter (R-CA). Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation. Hearing on “Confronting Transnational Drug Smuggling: An Assessment of Regional Partnerships". April 29, 2014. Opening Statement. (Remarks as Prepared). We are meeting today to review the federal government’s efforts...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Dr. Dayo Obebe of Muscogee County, Georgia, was sentenced today to serve 12 months and one day in prison for tax evasion and ordered to pay $189,661 in restitution, announced Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Michael J. Moore for the Middle District of Georgia. Obebe pleaded guilty to one count of tax evasion on Feb. 6, 2014.
