News from December 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: A Romanian man was sentenced today to serve 63 months in prison for his role in receiving and sending overseas approximately $690,000 in proceeds from an international fraud scheme involving online marketplace websites, as well as for the use of a fraudulent passport.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - After a three-day trial, a jury today found Deshawn A. Ray, 42, of Vallejo, guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, two counts of bank fraud, and one count of aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. The trial was held before Chief United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: In San Antonio today, the former owner of J.M. Food Mart in Seguin, Texas, admitted to collecting approximately $275,000 from a scheme to trade Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for ineligible items announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: Dear Mr. Comptroller General: We are writing to request that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) examine the impact of voter identification laws in selected states on the ability of American citizens to exercise their right to vote. In September, GAO issued a report concluding that voter identification...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - At over 70,000 pages in length, the U.S. tax laws are a labyrinth of red tape. The current tax system is anti-competitive, complicated, unfair, and is hurting economic growth. Since the code was last reformed nearly 30 years ago, members of Congress from both sides of the aisle have put forward innovative ideas and introduced various plans and proposals to remake the broken tax code to better meet the challenges of today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez today sentenced Orville Williams, 24, to 36 months in prison for carjacking, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hudson County, N.J., man was indicted today on an additional charge of paying thousands of dollars in bribes to a fire official in exchange for the elimination of outstanding fines and penalties on certain buildings that had fire code violations, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - CARLA JO MIRES, of Oklahoma City, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Joe Heaton to serve 24 months in federal prison for embezzling money from her employer by forging checks and for filing a false tax return, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. Mires was also ordered to pay $168,386.89 in restitution to the IRS and the victims of her embezzlement scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that EDWARD HOGAN, 38, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Ellen Bree Burns...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to attend a special, 30-minute program about the capture of Savannah, Georgia.This talk will take place at the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014, at 2 pm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Anthony R. Kidd, 54, of Wellsville, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to manufacture, possess with intent to distribute and distribute, 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, was sentenced to 60 months in prison and ordered to pay $3,143 in restitution to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: Visitors Cautioned to Be Alert When Driving and Walking.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jose Valladolid, 44, of Columbus, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to being a felon in possession of firearms under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Yesterday, Leigh Farrington Fiske was sentenced to 37 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution for a fraud scheme he perpetrated against small business owners and others seeking lines of credit around the nation, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag, Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program Christy Romero, and FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging Joseph A. Smith, Jr., age 25, of Mansfield, with attempted armed bank robbery and brandishing a weapon during and in relation to a crime of violence, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Paul J. Fishman, U. S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced federal, state and local law enforcement authorities arrested eight people this morning in connection with a ring that allegedly trafficked heroin, powder cocaine and crack cocaine in the Atlantic City area.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: Peoria, Ill. - Sentencing is scheduled on April 10, 2015, for a Bourbonnais, Ill., man convicted yesterday of three counts of filing a false tax return and nine counts of aiding and abetting the preparation of false tax returns. A jury deliberated for approximately five hours on Dec. 10, before returning 12 guilty verdicts against Robert J. DeAngelo, 63.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today applauded House passage of the bipartisan Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
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