News from August 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Larayne Whitehead, age 35, of Clinton, Maryland, today to 18 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiring to commit wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud businesses which supplied goods under government contracts. Judge Grimm also entered an order that Whitehead forfeit and pay restitution of $2,361,042.11 and a car.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Parmelee, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - Four Dallas-area individuals, along with a defendant from Georgia, who were convicted for their roles in a mortgage fraud scheme that caused more than $3 million in losses to lenders, have been sentenced, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 18, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- The U.S. continues to be a global leader in wind energy, ranking second in installed capacity in the world, according to two reports released today by the Department of Energy. Wind power is a key component of the nation’s all-of-the-above strategy to reduce carbon pollution, diversify...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The leader of a $20 million health care fraud scheme based at a Glendale medical clinic was sentenced today to eight years in federal prison for overseeing a plot to fraudulently prescribe expensive anti-psychotic medications and to sell those drugs back to pharmacies through the black market, where the drugs would be billed to the government over and over.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - United States District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill sentenced Alan Kendrick, 47, of Escalon, to 30 years in prison, to be followed by a lifetime term of supervised release, for his conviction of one count of receiving and distributing child pornography, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2014
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Four Mexican nationals, who kidnapped a group of foreign nationals who had been smuggled into the U.S. by another smuggling group, have been sentenced to lengthy federal prison terms, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Andres Perez-Moshan, 37, Humberto Alvarez-Cheo, 25...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2014
News Release: Huntington, W.Va. - Alton Tribble, 37, of Detroit, Michigan was sentenced in federal court in Huntington today to five years and three months’ in federal prison. Tribble previously pled guilty in April of 2014 to possession with intent to distribute heroin. On Dec. 26, 2013, members of the Huntington...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - An owner and operator of community mental health centers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Houston, Texas, was sentenced today to serve more than eight years in prison for her role in an extensive Medicare fraud scheme. Chief U.S. District Court Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced HOOR NAZ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2014
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Nikki Thomas, 37, of Jackson, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate to 92 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for stolen identity refund fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis. Thomas was also ordered to pay restitution to the IRS in the amount of $771,956.27.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Monday, Aug. 18, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. On Aug. 15, 2014, Eric Scott Russell, 48, of Carbondale, Illinois, pled guilty to a two-count superseding indictment, charging conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine and distribution...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Duane James, age 53, of Germantown, Maryland today to 151 months in prison for five counts of robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2014
News Release: The following statement was released Sunday by Justice Department spokesman Brian Fallon concerning the federal civil rights investigation into the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri: "Due to the extraordinary circumstances involved in this case and at the request of the Brown family, Attorney ...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 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. 17, 2014 14-058. Al Nash. (307) 344-2015. YELL_Public_Affairs@nps.gov. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK NEWS RELEASE. Body Of Missing Georgia Man Recovered. The body of a young...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, Aug. 15, 2014 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today awarded nearly $40 million in loans for new or improved broadband service in rural parts of Minnesota, North Dakota and Texas. The loans are being funded through USDA Rural Utilities Service's Telecommunications Infrastructure Loan Program ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2014
News Release: The following joint statement was released Friday by FBI Special Agent in Charge William P. Woods, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri Richard G. Callahan and Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Molly Moran: “At the onset of our federal civil rights investigation, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2014
News Release: Christopher W. Loncarich, 55, of Mack, Colorado, pleaded guilty in federal court in Denver to a felony conspiracy charge stemming from his sale of outfitting services for illegal mountain lion and bobcat hunts in Colorado and Utah, the Justice Department announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2014
News Release: The Justice Department reached an agreement today with Real Time Staffing Services LLC, doing business as Select Staffing, a company based in Santa Barbara, California. The settlement resolves the department’s claims that Select Staffing discriminated against work-authorized non-U.S. citizens in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2014
News Release: Two Miami, Florida, residents pleaded guilty this week to participating in a mortgage fraud scheme involving the sale of condominium units in the Miami area.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2014
News Release: Today, the Justice Department asked a federal court to dismiss its case involving Oakley Training School in Raymond, Mississippi, because the state of Mississippi and the Division of Youth Services have significantly improved conditions for confined youth at Oakley. The reforms, implemented under a consent ...
