News from August 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: Little Rock - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas; Christopher A. Henry, Special Agent in Charge of the IRS-Criminal Investigation Nashville Field Office; and David T. Resch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - A northern California man who served as an information and document vendor in the identity theft and credit card fraud ring known as “Carder.su" was sentenced yesterday to serve 100 months in federal prison. He was further ordered to pay approximately $50.5 million in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: Bradley A. DeTurck, 36, of Reading, PA, was charged yesterday by Indictment with receipt, distribution and possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney Kenyen Brown announces that Stephanie Hollifield, a 34 year old resident of Grove Hill, was sentenced today. Mrs. Hollifield pled guilty on May 15, 2014, to unlawfully using the credit cards she stole from the home of her employer. She was sentenced to a five year probationary term and order to pay $2,406.96 restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, Aug. 22, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that, GERALD COLEY, 44, of Stamford, was sentenced on Aug. 20, 2014, by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Peter Liounis, a resident of Staten Island, was sentenced to 292 months in prison following his conviction on February 5, 2014, of six counts of wire fraud, one count of mail fraud, one count of wire and mail fraud conspiracy, and one...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron sentenced Luis Alberto Marulanda-(55, Colombia) to 80 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit money laundering. As part of his sentence, the court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $969,130 reflecting the proceeds of the charged criminal conduct. Marulanda pleaded guilty on April 7, 2014. He was sentenced on Aug. 21, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Mauricio Florian-Polanco, a 39-year-old illegal immigrant from Guatemala who was residing in Manassas, Virginia, pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to commit immigration document fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Donnell Young, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and Amos Rojas, Jr., U.S. Marshal, U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), announce the indictment of seven individuals for their...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: Over 30 Members Of Violent Staten Island Drug Crews Convicted.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO ― Three southwest suburban defendants were indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly scheming to swindle hundreds of thousands of dollars from a not-for-profit network that coordinated organ and tissue donations in Illinois and northwest Indiana, federal law enforcement officials announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: A Lighthouse Point, Florida, man was sentenced today to serve 12 months and one day in prison for filing a false claim for a tax refund with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), U.S. Attorney Wifredo Ferrer for the Southern District of Florida and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Ronald A. Cimino of the Justice Department’s Tax Division announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: The Fort Hancock 21st Century Federal Advisory Committee will hold its next meeting on Friday, September 12 at Brookdale Community College in the Donald D. Warner Student Life Center. The address is 765 Newman Springs Road, Lincroft, New Jersey.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
Release: The Foreign Agricultural Service partners with land grant universities and other research institutions to provide training and collaborative research opportunities to scientists and policymakers from developing countries through the Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship Program. The following guest feature highlights the experiences of four Borlaug fellows recently hosted by the Ohio State University.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking an organization to support its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) awardees by providing technical and business expertise and resources to promote commercialization of the technologies developed through the SBIR program.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today continued the process of seeking public input ahead of a #CommActUpdate by releasing a white paper focused on the Universal Service Fund. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: South Bend, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Darnell Brown, 30, of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 280 grams or more of cocaine base within the Perry Housing Projects before Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life and a $10,000,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: As extreme drought continues to affect much of Nevada, the Bureau of Land Management will temporarily close grazing on nine areas on the Argenta Allotment in Northern Nevada where drought and grazing impacts have surpassed acceptable levels. The decision will be effective on August 22 and will last until...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: Little Rock - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas and Raymond R. Parmer, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New Orleans, announced that Christopher Arnold Hogan, 47, of Heber Springs pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge related to possession with intent to distribute of 246 grams of Methylone, commonly referred to as “bath salts.".
