News from August 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Joplin, Mo., man was charged in federal court today with attempting to entice a minor for illicit sexual activity. Erik Leroy Clark, 35, of Joplin, was charged in...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Chicago man was sentenced today to 63 months in prison for stealing more than $1 million worth of iPhones and iPads from Verizon Wireless by misappropriating corporate purchasing accounts and then diverting the shipments by bribing Federal Express drivers, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) sent additional evidence to the Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding the April 9, 2014 criminal referral letter which laid out evidence of possible criminal wrongdoing by former IRS employee Lois Lerner uncovered through the Committee’s investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on July 29, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - On Wednesday, July 23, 2014, the House of Representatives unanimously approved H.R. 4980, the “Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act." This bipartisan, bicameral bill reflects agreements reached between House and Senate leaders on three separate bills designed to...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - The federal grand jury in Springfield, Ill., has indicted the woman allegedly kidnapped from a Champaign, Ill., mall on June 11, 2014, and the two men who appeared to kidnap her. The indictment, returned late yesterday, charges Monica Adriana Zacatlan Ramirez, 19, of Urbana, Ill.;...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) today released a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report finding the Railroad Retirement Board’s (RRB) total and permanent (T&P) disability program, financed in part by Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) revenues, lacks safeguards to prevent fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A California investment manager was found guilty in federal court in Salt Lake City, Utah, late Tuesday afternoon for his role in a $33 million investment fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Michael C. Kaufman, of Pittsford, N.Y., who was convicted following a federal jury trial of conspiracy to commit bank and loan fraud, as well as bank and loan fraud, was sentenced to a 12 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $1,360,893.72 by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced today that MARCUS DORRELL BYRD, 43, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, was convicted by a federal jury on all 5 counts contained in the indictment dated Sept. 18, 2012. Charges consisted of drug and firearms offenses including conspiracy to...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: James L. Santelle, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on July 31, 2014, Tiffiny Leanna Harden (age: 30) of Menomonee Falls was sentenced before Judge Rudolph T. Randa on charges of filing false claims against the United States, mail fraud, and food stamp...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - The office manager for a South Hills car dealership has pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of wire fraud and filing false income tax returns, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that James Marsh, 73, of Rochester, N.Y., was found guilty at trial before U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer, of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, oxycodone, and to acquire and obtain possession of oxycodone by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception and subterfuge. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $1,000,000 or both.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: The U.S. Energy Information Administration today highlighted the importance of energy production to state economies and showcased the economic growth in those states where energy extraction plays a significant role in the economy. The EIA reports, “At the national level, establishments that extract crude...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: The U.S. Energy Information Administration today highlighted the importance of energy production to state economies and showcased the economic growth in those states where energy extraction plays a significant role in the economy. The EIA reports, “At the national level, establishments that extract crude...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A former Richard Stockton College of New Jersey police officer today admitted selling oxycodone-based pills to an undercover officer and a witness who was cooperating with law enforcement officers, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Ellis Thomas, also known as “L" and “Big Homey," 30, of Hartford, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 84 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in an armed robbery scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: Las Vegas - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Red Rock/Sloan Field Office will host a public meeting on Tuesday, August 12 at 2 p.m. at the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area Visitor Center classroom. The informational meeting will present proposed road improvements on State Route 160 west from State Route 159 to Mountain Springs.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: The U.S. Energy Information Administration today highlighted the importance of energy production to state economies and showcased the economic growth in those states where energy extraction plays a significant role in the economy. The EIA reports, “At the national level, establishments that extract crude...
By State Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding a decision by the joint Cambodian and United Nations tribunal in which two senior Khmer Rouge leaders, Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, were found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life in prison...
