News from April 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on April 17, 2014, United States District Court Judge Joseph F. Bataillon, sentenced Tina Angela Davis-Smith, age 44, to 12 months and 1 day imprisonment following her conviction for making a False Statement to the Social Security Administration...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing the committee’s oversight of the safety and security of the nation’s electric grid, House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders yesterday wrote to Acting Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Cheryl LaFleur seeking information relating to the agency’s management of sensitive security information.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced Alyssa.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2014
News Release: Report shows visitor spending supports 9 jobs in local economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Alper Erdogan (35, a Turkish citizen residing in Baku, Azerbaijan) today pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit computer hacking, conspiracy to commit credit card fraud, and two counts of aggravated identity theft. Erdogan faces a maximum penalty of 14 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2014
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Quem Stephen Clive Dixon (24, Orlando) today pleaded guilty to three counts of making a false statement to a firearms dealer, three counts of transferring a firearm across state lines, and one count of selling a firearm to a convicted ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Donzell Butler, 23, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 13 years and four months in prison on charges stemming from an attack in which he fatally stabbed one man and wounded another, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Warrants were recently unsealed in U.S. District Court detailing the seizure of radio transmission equipment used by three pirate radio stations: 100.1 FM, broadcasting from Everett, Mattapan, and Brockton, with a studio in Dorchester; Touch 106.1 FM, broadcasting from Boston; and 88.7 FM, broadcasting from Brockton.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, April 18, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. On April 8, 2014, Allen W. Clover, Jr., 40, Carmen J. Clover, 40, and Jimmy L. Richeson, 51, all of Tilden, were charged by indictment with conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, the...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office today announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, April 18, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. On April 8, 2014, Travis J. Sanders, 29, and April M. Elliot, 33, both of Pomona, were charged by superseding indictment with conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2014
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On Wednesday, April 16, 2014, U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken sentenced Mark Timothy Ellis, 38, of Oregon City, Oregon, for making a fraudulent claim to the United States and for filing a false lien against a federal employee to serve 12 months and one day in prison and three years of supervised release, and ordered him to pay $311,459 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Jose A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announce that Jeffrey Emil Groover, 53, of Delray Beach, was sentenced today before U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenbaum...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Ocean County, N.J., man who was sentenced less than two months ago to 22 years in prison for running a Ponzi-style real estate scheme was indicted by a federal grand jury today on new charges of conspiracy, wire fraud and transacting criminal proceeds while on pretrial release, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: John David Hunt, 38, of Gillette, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on April 17, 2014, for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Hunt was arrested in Gillette, Wyoming. He received 33 months imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $100.00 special assessment. This case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings on March 27, 2014 before U.S. District Judge Susan Watters, TYE DUSTIN ALBRIGHT was sentenced to 180 months imprisonment and 5 years supervised release.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON—The Department of Homeland Security today announced the start of the nomination period for the 2014 Rick Rescorla National Award for Resilience that recognizes leadership in fostering resilience during the previous year. Resilience is the ability to adapt to changing conditions and withstand and rapidly recover from disruption due to emergencies.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: GULFPORT, Miss. — Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson traveled to Pascagoula, Gulfport and Biloxi, Miss., where he met with House Committee on Homeland Security Ranking Member Bennie Thompson and Congressman Steven Palazzo, state and local law enforcement officials, and state emergency management officials.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, April 17, 2014 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the availability of approximately $66 million in Specialty Crop Block Grants to state departments of agriculture for projects that help support specialty crop growers, including locally grown fruits and vegetables, through research, programs to increase demand, and more.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2014
News Release: Sant Singh Chatwal, 70, of New York – a businessman operating several restaurants, hotels and a hotel management company – pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of New York to conspiring to violate the Federal Election Campaign Act (the “Election Act”) by making more than $180,000 in federal campaign ...
