News from April 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two Chester County residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking and sex trafficking of a child, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A corrections officer at the Otero County Prison Facility (OCFP) in Chaparral, N.M., has been charged with violating the federal narcotics laws, Acting U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Special Agent in Charge Carol K.O. Lee of the Albuquerque Division of the FBI and Department Secretary Gregg Marcantel of the New Mexico Corrections Department announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released an update to a document that helps computer administrators maintain the security of information traveling across their networks.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO -Yaowapha Ritdet and Steve Walter were arraigned today in court on five counts of filing false tax returns. Yaowapha Ritdet was also arraigned on two counts of willfully failing to report a foreign bank account, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: Charmaine Anne King was sentenced yesterday in connection with her role in a fraudulent international lottery scheme that targeted U.S. citizens, the Justice Department announced. King was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge K. Michael Moore in Miami to serve 57 months in prison and five years of...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Chad Eric Jones, 43, of Madison, Florida, was sentenced on April 29, 2014, to one year in federal prison by U.S. District Court Judge Robert Hinkle following acceptance of his guilty plea in November of last year. Jones, a federally licensed firearms dealer, pleaded guilty to multiple counts of selling firearms to a convicted felon and a single count of selling a handgun to a person under 21 years of age.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An inmate at SCI-Houtzdale, located in Houtzdale, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal law, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced John Alexander Talley (42, Seattle, Washington) to 30 months in federal prison for conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the Iranian Transaction Regulations. The court also sentenced Talley’s company, Tallyho Peripherals, Inc. d/b/a Enterprise Solutions Systems, to one year of probation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: DENVER - U.S. Attorney John Walsh and IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Stephen Boyd announce the prosecution of return preparers for fraudulently preparing false tax returns. As another filing season comes to an end, Federal officials remind those who prepare and file fraudulent tax returns, they will be criminally prosecuted. Recent return preparer cases prosecuted in the District of Colorado include the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Moorpark man accused of using social networking websites to trick and extort more than a dozen girls and boys into sending him naked photos and videos was arrested today on federal child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two Illinois residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of conspiracy, using unauthorized access device in aggregate of $1,000, possessing device- making equipment, possessing 15 or more access devices, and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: Washington - Peanut producers voted to continue the Peanut Promotion, Research, and Information Program. The vote was taken in a referendum conducted by U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) from April 7 - 18, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A Birmingham man and federal fugitive charged in connection with a 2013 heroin overdose death in Tuscaloosa was arrested this month in Atlanta and arraigned today in U.S. District Court in Birmingham, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay A. Morris.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of bank and wire fraud conspiracy, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - A 20-year-old Charlotte, North Carolina man was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Charleston. According to the three-count indictment, on March 25, 2014, Aric Adams, Jr. is alleged to have possessed and discharged a handgun within 1000 feet of J.E. Robins Elementary School...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Somerset Medical Center - a regional medical center located in Somerville, N.J. - has paid $435,640 to settle allegations that it violated the federal False Claims Act by making improper rental payments to a cardiology group that referred large numbers of patients to the hospital, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jeremy Cuevas, 35, of Silver City, N.M., was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 77 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. The sentence was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that MICHAEL SCOTT CALHOUN, age 49, and TOMMY WAYNE DAVIS, age 47, both of Yantis, Texas, pled guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud/Mail Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1349.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA- Chad Eric Jones, 43, of Madison, Florida, was sentenced on April 29, 2014, to one year in federal prison by U.S. District Court Judge Robert Hinkle following acceptance of his guilty plea in November of last year. Jones, a federally licensed firearms dealer, pleaded guilty to multiple counts of selling firearms to a convicted felon and a single count of selling a handgun to a person under 21 years of age.
