News from August 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WELLINGTON BROWN, also known as “Jamal," 25, a Jamaican citizen formerly residing in Hartford, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - Willard Lenord Jones, 63, of Tulsa, Church pastor and former Executive Director of the Greater Cornerstone Community Development Project, was charged today with three counts of wire fraud and one count of subscribing to a false tax return by criminal information.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for Guam, announced that BERNARD DELA ROSA TOVES, was sentenced on Monday, Aug. 12, 2014, in the U.S. District Court of Guam by Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood. TOVES received a sentence of five years incarceration, and ten years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Robert Romero, 24, of Santa Fe, N.M., was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison followed by four years of supervised release for his role in a cocaine base trafficking conspiracy. Romero previously had entered a guilty plea on May 13, 2014, to two drug trafficking charges and a firearms charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that the former director of information technology for Clarkson Construction Company has been charged in federal court with a mail fraud scheme in which he embezzled more than $300,000 from the company.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: In Del Rio today, 23-year-old Jesus Cardenas of New Braunfels, TX, was sentenced to six years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay a $4,000 fine for smuggling ammunition from the United States announced U.S. Attorney Robert Pitman and Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Janice Ayala.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Juan Carlos Hernandez, 44, of El Paso, Texas, pled guilty in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., this morning to a felony information charging him with the online enticement of a minor to engage in illicit sexual activity. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Hernandez will be sentenced to ten years in federal prison to be followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court. Hernandez also will be required to register as a sex offender.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: Theodore Roosevelt National Park to Host Annual Badlands Star Party.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: Valley Forge, PA -Valley Forge National Historical Park and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University are partnering in the Summer of Bugs, a summerlong inventory of the park's terrestrial invertebrates, better known as land bugs. Together, the park and the Academy invite those interested...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - James T. McBride, 60, of Columbus, Ohio, the self-proclaimed leader of a group known as “Divine Province," was convicted today by a federal jury of conspiracy, causing the impersonation of a diplomat and producing false identification documents.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2014
News Release: A Detroit tax preparer was sentenced yesterday to 30 days in prison for filing a false federal income tax return, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - BRADLEY FERGUSON, owner of Fenton-based Paymaster Business Solutions, Inc., pled guilty to mail fraud and money laundering charges involving his failure to remit federal, state and local taxes to the proper taxing authorities that had been deducted from victim client bank accounts. Ferguson...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - SABAHADDIN AKMAN, the owner and manager of a Turkish drug wholesaler, pled guilty today to smuggling misbranded and adulterated cancer treatment drugs into the United States, including multiple shipments of Altuzan® (the Turkish version of Avastin®) sent from Turkey to Chesterfield, Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: Human Trafficking Rescue Project. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Lenexa, Kan., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to attempting to entice a 12-year-old child to engage in prostitution and criminal sexual activity...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: Tucson, AZ- Monsoon season storms have caused flash flooding in Saguaro National Park’s Tucson Mountain (West) District this afternoon. The flooding has damaged and washed out many segments of the Scenic Bajada Loop Drive. As a result, all of the dirt roads in the Tucson Mountain (West) District, except...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - House of Oxford Inc., of New Jersey, and its officers agreed to forfeit to the United States more than $13.6 million in cash, property, jewelry, artwork, and luxury automobiles that were acquired with proceeds of the sale of tobacco products in California in a manner that evaded...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2014—Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the selection of 21 new members to the Planning Rule Federal Advisory Committee (FACA), which provides guidance and recommendations on management of America's national forests on Planning Rule implementation of the 2012 Planning Rule. The Planning Rule continues to guide stewards of national forests and grasslands in developing, revising or amending land management plans.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2014— Today, Agriculture Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden announced the availability of $400,000 in funding to establish the Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers Policy Research Center. The Center will be established at an 1890 Land-Grant college or university and will specialize ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: Fourteen individuals were charged in three indictments in Puerto Rico with conspiracy to commit identification fraud, money laundering, aggravated identity theft and passport fraud in connection with their alleged roles in a scheme to traffic the identities and corresponding identity documents of Puerto Rican U.S. citizens.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: Scott B. Miserendino, Sr., 55, a former contractor for the United States Navy Military Sealift Command, pleaded guilty today to accepting bribes and conspiring to commit bribery.
