News from December 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: SAN DIEGO - This morning, the DEA San Diego Field Division’s Narcotics Task (NTF) along with the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department and Health Advocates Rejecting Marijuana, (HARM) announce the total amount of illegal marijuana plants seized in San Diego County in 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK -United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI") Albany Special Agent in Charge Andrew W. Vale, announced today the sentencing of RYAN LETCHER, age 39, of Endicott, New York. LETCHER was convicted on August 6, 2014, after a jury trial of one...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Corderro Cody, 27, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, was charged by indictment, unsealed today, with conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, four counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, and conspiracy to transport individuals both intrastate and interstate for the purpose of prostitution, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Chelsea man pleaded guilty yesterday to submitting fraudulent financial aid applications to support his daughter’s Harvard College tuition.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Daniel Arrieta, 39, of Anthony, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 120 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his heroin trafficking conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: A Cleveland woman was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for her role in a conspiracy that useed false identities, including those of people incarcerated, to file nearly $2 million worth of false tax claims, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Kathy Enstrom, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation, Cincinnati Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today the results of the December 2014 Federal Grand Jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A former area motorcycle and recreational vehicle dealer and his accountant were sentenced to 13½ and 2½ years, respectively, in federal prison for a $75.9 million fraudulent financing scheme that resulted in 18 lenders losing more than $58.8 million, federal law enforcement officials announced today.
By State Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and author of the bipartisan Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Act, issued this statement following the bill’s passage in the U.S. House of Representatives.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Four Russian nationals have been indicted for conspiring to travel from Russia to casinos across the United States, including several local casinos, to cheat at particular slot games using electronic devices.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) today announced Republican members who will serve on the committee in the 114th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Mexican national who assumed the identity of a United States citizen more than 30 years ago has been indicted in federal court here for allegedly engaging in fraud to obtain Medicaid, food stamps, Social Security benefits, voting privileges, a driver’s license and even a U.S. passport, U. S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: “Today’s decision by the Court of Appeals interprets the securities laws in a way that will limit the ability to prosecute people who trade on leaked inside information. The decision affects only a subset of our recent cases, and in those cases - as in all our criminal cases - we investigated and prosecuted...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that LaDONNA JANE BURNS, age 44, Tulsa, Oklahoma, pled guilty to Embezzlement and Theft From An Indian Tribal Organization, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1163, punishable by not more than 5 years imprisonment, and/or up to a $250,000.00 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that JACLYN CAMPBELL, age 24, of Muskogee, Oklahoma pled guilty to Concealing Person from Arrest, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1071.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
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By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: A very wet storm system will bring substantial rainfall, high surf, and high winds to the Point Reyes area beginning Wednesday night and through the day Thursday. Rain will likely be heavy at times, which will increase the risk of flooding roads and trails. Rainfall amounts are expected to range from 5 to 8 inches.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senate and House leaders today welcomed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) decision to convene a series of technical conferences on the potential threat of new federal environmental regulations to the reliability of the nation’s electric power system.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Ronnie Gene Wilson, age 67, of the Coleman Federal Corrections Institution in Sumterville, Florida, was sentenced today in federal court in Greenville for his involvement in a conspiracy to obstruct justice, a violation...
By State Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, commended House passage of the Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Act (S. 2142). The legislation now heads to the President’s desk to be signed into law. Earlier this year, the House...
