News from August 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Abusive Sexual Contact of a Minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Four family members who operated a temporary employment agency pleaded guilty yesterday to charges relating to a scheme to hide $25 million in employees’ wages from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: POCATELLO - Gustavo Alfaro-Garcia, 36, of Salt lake City, Utah, and Mirella Ileana Garcia, 27, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday to possession of a stolen firearm, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Co-defendant, Maria Garcia, 26, of Salt Lake City, pleaded guilty to the same charge on Aug. 13, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Jeannette, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of production of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite announced that CHRISTOPHER M. SCHWAB, age 25, a resident of New Orleans, was sentenced today for four counts of producing child pornography involving four different minor victims, one count of distributing child pornography and one count of receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Alvert Miller, 39, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., was sentenced this morning to 72 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for his second degree murder conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: More than 100 Drug Deals Made By On-Duty Mail Carrier.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Deandre Kelly, age 32, of Washington, D.C., today to 236 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute narcotics, escape, and for carrying and using a firearm in relation to...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: Stephen Paradis, Jr., 23, of West Chester, PA, was charged today by Information with possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The information alleges that on or about Dec. 10, 2013, Paradis, Jr., possessed one or more visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Ronald A. Cimino of the Justice Department's Tax Division announced that OSCAR ARMANDO PERDOMO, 35, was sentenced to serve 42 months in prison for conspiracy to defraud the United States by filing false income tax returns that fraudulently...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: Fort Peck Reservation Gets Money for Special Assistant U.S. Attorney.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: Restoration of C.C. Cragin Reservoir provides next step in Western Watershed Enhancement Partnership PAYSON, Arizona, Aug. 27, 2014 – Interior Deputy Secretary Michael Connor and Agriculture Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment Robert Bonnie joined state, local and private partners today ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: Political consultant Gregory Naylor, 66, of Philadelphia, pleaded guilty today to making false statements to federal agents and misprision of a felony in connection with his role in attempting to conceal two campaign finance-related fraud schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it will require Tyson Foods Inc. to divest Heinold Hog Markets, its sow purchasing business, in order to proceed with its $8.5 billion acquisition of The Hillshire Brands Company. The department said that, without the required divestiture, the transaction would have combined companies that account for more than a third of sow purchases from U.S. farmers, thereby likely reducing competition for purchases of sows from farmers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: The Department of Justice and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today a settlement with E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DuPont) at its Belle, W. Va. facility for eight alleged releases of harmful levels of hazardous substances between May 2006 and January 2010. Several of the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: A former Iowa State Senator pleaded guilty today to concealing payments he received from a presidential campaign in exchange for switching his support and services from one candidate to another and to obstructing a subsequent investigation into his conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: An owner of an electrical contracting company pleaded guilty today to falsifying disclosure documents required under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), by intentionally under-reporting hours worked by employees to avoid contractually required contributions to employee benefit plans.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: Steven A. Murray, 54, of Pelham, Alabama, and his company, Bio-Tech Management Inc., were sentenced today in federal court in Macon, Georgia, after pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy, unlawful use of pesticides, false statements and mail fraud in connection with the misapplication of pesticides ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: Acting Assistant Attorney General Molly Moran for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger for the District of Minnesota today announced the filing of a lawsuit against the city of St. Anthony Village for an alleged violation of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014
News Release: Two New York residents pleaded guilty today in connection with importing more than 100,000 counterfeit and hazardous children’s toys from China for sale in the United States.
