News from April 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Bernadette Demps today pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft. She faces a mandatory minimum of two years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A San Angelo, Texas, woman, who worked for a water utility service company in unincorporated Tom Green County was sentenced for embezzling approximately $43,000 from her employer, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A German company has been sentenced to pay a $1 million fine and another $250,000 to support environmental causes after pleading guilty to two felony environmental charges related to a cargo ship that entered the Port of Long Beach last year with an open crack in its hull that may have caused oil to leak into the port.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a felony information has been filed against Ketsy Devis, age 24, of Brooklyn, New York. The information charges Devis with conspiracy to pass counterfeit federal reserve notes at various locations throughout the Middle District of Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, April 25, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JEROME WILLINGHAM, 32, of Hartford, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea...
By State Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: Today, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, April 25, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOHN W. RICE, 40, of Windsor, pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge William I. Garfinkel in...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, April 25, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Luke L. Burnett, 30, of Crossville, IL, was indicted on April 8, 2014, on methamphetamine related charges in a one count Indictment returned by a Federal Grand Jury sitting in Benton...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: FRANK MIKE, JR., age 45, of New Orleans, was indicted today by a federal grand jury and charged with Interstate Transportation of a Stolen Motor Vehicle, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge John Antoon, II today sentenced Damion Rashaad Carder (36, Cocoa) to 3 years in federal prison for violating his supervised release. Carder was under supervision of the court as a result of a cocaine conviction in 2006. Carder was found guilty of violating...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: RICHARD S. HARTUNIAN, United States Attorney, Northern District of New York, announces the sentencing of HABAKKUK NICKENS, age 28, of Syracuse, NY, an admitted member of the V-NOT Gang. NICKENS previously pled guilty to an indictment which charged him and ten others with conspiring to exploit their membership ...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: On Tuesday, April 29 at 10:00 a.m., the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), will hold a hearing entitled, “Reviewing the President’s Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Proposal for the Department of Education." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - Robert Drew, 57, of Oakland, TN, was convicted yesterday by a federal jury on two counts of robbery of a business engaged in interstate commerce (Hobbs Act robbery), two counts of using a firearm during a crime of violence; and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III and ATF Nashville Field Division Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey L. Fulton.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce that Allen Weintraub, 48, of Boynton Beach, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Donald Graham to 111 months in prison, three years of supervised release, ordered to forfeit $140,280.47, and pay the same amount in restitution to two victims of a scheme to sell Facebook shares.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Elsy Alvarez, 64, of Miramar, Florida, who was convicted of wire fraud affecting a financial institution, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution totaling $415,282.28 by U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: An Indictment Is An Accusation Of Criminal Conduct, Not Evidence.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Panel on Public-Private Partnerships (P3s) will hold a roundtable policy discussion next week on the state experience with P3s.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 25, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A 58-year-old man was arrested Wednesday in Caguas by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents for sexually enticing a minor.
