News from August 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Tracy Dunn, Special Agent in Charge, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Office of Law Enforcement, announce that the Miami-based seafood company True Nature Seafood, LLC (TNS), was sentenced in Miami...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that two Kearney, Mo., residents are among five defendants who have been indicted for their roles in a $2.6 million conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury in has returned an indictment charging Humayun Farid, (a/k/a Jimmy Farid), 35, and Aysha Humayun, (a/k/a Aysha Hussain), 33, of Henrietta, N.Y., with conspiracy to commit mail fraud, mail fraud and filing a false tax return. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A former branch manager for Newfield National Bank in Franklinville, New Jersey, today admitted that she embezzled $263,864 from the bank, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Erik Moreno, 19, of Stockton, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton to 10 years in prison for distributing methamphetamine in a case resulting from the Operation Gideon IV investigation, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: MIAMI - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, announce that seven individuals have been charged with conspiring to distribute anabolic steroid testosterone to underage high school and professional athletes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Gary Tubby, 53, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves, Jr. to 25 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for sexual exploitation of children, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis, Acting FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, and Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina -----United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Leland Victor Nielsen, III, age 32, of Sumter, South Carolina, was sentenced to life in prison for sexually abusing a young girl. Chief United States District Judge Terry L. Wooten sentenced Nielsen today in federal court...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - Timothy Rinehart, 35, of Dallas, pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge David L. Horan to a superseding indictment charging a multitude of child pornography offenses, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: A Warren man was sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison for illegally selling firearms, heroin and cocaine, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A former employee of a government contracting company, was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for conspiracy to bribe public officials at the United States Navy Military Sealift Command.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO ― A former physician who was affiliated with three Chicago hospitals was sentenced today to nearly six years in federal prison for illegally distributing prescription drugs in exchange for sex and cash. The defendant, JOSHUA D. BARON, a pediatric neurologist, pleaded guilty in March, admitting...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: In Separate Case, Three Miami-Dade County Residents Charged in Conspiracy to Distribute and Attempted Possession of Molly.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Ramon Anthony Jadra, age 47, of Westminster, Maryland pleaded guilty today to tax evasion.
By State Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) met with President of South Sudan Salva Kiir.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The final two Houston residents convicted in for their roles in a conspiracy to traffic dozens of AK-47 variant rifles from the Houston area to Mexico have been ordered to prison, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Robert Elder, special agent in charge...
By State Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ), House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA), and Senate Foreign Relations Africa Subcommittee Chairman Chris Coons (D-DE) met with President of South Africa Jacob Zuma.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man was sentenced today to 30 years in federal prison for forced sex-trafficking of two minor and two young adult women. The defendant, CARL BRANDON SMITH, forced his victims to engage in commercial sex acts, used physical violence, and threatened to kill them if they ever left him between 2010 and early 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Brian Kim, 38, of Fairfax, Virginia, pleaded guilty today to defrauding the U.S. Postal Service by counterfeiting and selling approximately $76,000 in postage stamps at two packaging centers he owned and operated in northern Virginia.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement after the Obama Administration said it is looking at possible ways to address the issue of corporate inversions. Ranking Member Levin also commented on reports that Walgreen has decided not to invert...
