News from August 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Herminio Sandoval, 57, of Caldwell, Idaho, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to attempt to evade and defeat tax, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former California prison inmate, incarcerated for state sex offenses, pleaded guilty in federal court today to using a smuggled cell phone to distribute child pornography...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally possessing firearms, following a high-speed car chase that ended with a collision that killed an employee of the Kansas City Police Crime Laboratory.
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 Camden County, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to charges related to the forced sex trafficking of two women. Joshua Kain Smith, 36, of Camden...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a seven-count superseding indictment charging Brandon Correa, 30, of Rochester, N.Y., with making multiple direct threats to kill the President of the United States, Barack Obama. The defendant...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina -----United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that a Federal Grand Jury in Greenville, South Carolina, returned Indictment(s) against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Gabriel Anthony Saiz, 21, of Silver City, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 60 months in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release for the unlawful possession of an unregistered short-barreled rifle with an obliterated serial number.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Omar Rimmer, 39, of Washington, D.C., was found guilty by a jury today of carrying out an early-morning attack in which he forced his way into a woman’s residence and attempted to sexually assault her, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. Yellowstone National Park. P.O. Box 168. Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190. Aug. 12, 2014 14-055. Al Nash. (307) 344-2015. YELL_Public_Affairs@nps.gov. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK NEWS RELEASE. Search Underway For Man Missing In Northern Yellowstone...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - A 32-year-old man from Temple Hills, Md., has been sentenced to a 20-year prison term for sexually abusing a teenage relative in the District of Columbia, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: Urbana, Ill. - Sentencing has been set for Dec. 11, for a former vice president of the State Bank of Herscher, David Rabideau, 43, of Clifton, Ill. Yesterday, Rabideau pled guilty to receiving a kickback for procuring a real estate loan and to two counts of filing false tax returns, as announced by Jim Lewis, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois. Rabideau remains on bond following his appearance yesterday before U.S. Magistrate Judge David G. Bernthal.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: Glacier National Park personnel responded to a medical emergency on Sunday, August 10. Personnel met the injured party along the Continental Divide Trail in the Siyeh area. Two hikers, a father and son from Alabama, were climbing down from Mount Siyeh when a boulder was dislodged. The 21 year old son...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Two Boston-area hedge fund managers were charged today with conspiracy to commit securities fraud, wire fraud and obstruction of justice.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), senior Republican on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, today requested a study from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the Department of Education’s Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) waiver policies.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: Tucson, AZ - The Deer Head Fire remains at approximately 1,097 acres and is 55% contained. Increasing moisture and humidity have slowed the fire's progression in recent days and similar conditions are expected to persist throughout the week. Fire activity is expected to continue to decrease with the return of monsoon weather conditions and potential for precipitation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Florida man today admitted producing and selling potentially deadly toxins ricin and abrin for use as weapons and conspiring to kill a woman in the United Kingdom, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - JOHN DOOLEY, age 57, of Rochester, New York, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Thomas J. McAvoy to 45 years of imprisonment for (1) attempted enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity; (2) attempted production of child pornography, and (3) committing...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal appeals court ruled today that a district judge's sentence of probation was unreasonable for a computer software vendor who paid more than $600,000 in bribes over four years to the chancellor of Alabama's two-year college system, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former deputy of the Los Angeles County, Calif., Sheriff’s Department has been sentenced in federal court for his role in an $11 million mortgage fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that NOVELETTE “PAT" CAMPBELL, a former manager of the federally subsidized Tricham Houses in Manhattan, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to one year and one day in prison for accepting bribes...
