News from December 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Michael.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: Imagine losing something so precious to you and your family that it would impact your family for generations to come. Now imagine finally finding that lost treasure after more than six decades has passed. That is exactly what happened to the people of South Korea.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA), Ranking Member Lamar Alexander (R-TN), and HELP Committee members Sens. Kay Hagan (D-NC) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) today praised unanimous passage in the Senate of the bipartisan Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A suspended Las Vegas doctor who was prescribing and obtaining controlled substances at local pharmacies in the name of a deceased patient, pleaded guilty today to the federal felony offense of obtaining controlled substances by fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., praised the inclusion of a one-year extension of the Internet Tax Freedom Act he originally wrote in 1998 with Republican Congressman Chris Cox, in a bill to fund the federal government. The Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA) prohibits state and local government from levying discriminatory taxes on Internet taxes and services. Without ITFA, consumers would face a swift increase in the cost of Internet access and services.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - On Dec. 1, 2014, Nels Nicholas Niemi, 75, of Haines, Alaska was sentenced by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark E. Aspey to pay fines totaling $1,500.00, along with court costs of $966.76, and assessments of $20.00 after having been found guilty of dumping refuse into the Colorado River and illegally collecting firewood in violation of his non-commercial private rafting trip permit. The defendant was convicted after a bench trial held on Oct. 29, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Thelda Frank, 42, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Farmington, N.M., was sentenced today to a year of supervised release for her assault conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Wallace D. Peace, 39, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 280 grams of crack cocaine, was sentenced to 262 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was convicted in federal court today of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Edwin Torres-Osorio, aka “Bebe," pled guilty yesterday to Count one of the indictment which charged that the defendant, along with three others, aiding and abetting each other, with the intent to cause death and serious bodily harm, did knowingly, willfully and intentionally take...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: COLUMBUS, OHIO - Suheidy A. Warner, 31, of Columbus pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to file false claims for federal income tax refunds with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Warner faces a maximum of 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: 2014 enacted level: $73.2 billion. 2015 base budget request: $71.9 billion. 2015 Omnibus base: $71.8 billion. 2015 OCO: $221 million. Highlights and key points: * $6.5 billion for Military Construction projects, which is $3.2 billion less than the 2014 enacted level, including: ** $1.1 billion for...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: Prepared False Tax Returns Using An Alias.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: 2014 total enacted level: $572 billion.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: Defendant and Co-Conspirators Used Counterfeit Debit Cards.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal jury in Buffalo has convicted Steven A. Knighton, 48, of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life and a $10,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced today that Fort Lauderdale-area resident Adam H. Meyer (age: 42), the President and Chief Executive Officer of Real Money Sports, Inc., has been indicted on federal fraud, racketeering, extortion, and gun charges...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago company dealing in scrap metal has agreed to plead guilty to federal tax and currency transaction charges alleging that it engaged in cash transactions that resulted in underreporting its corporate income and underpaying its payroll taxes. The defendant, TRI STATE METAL COMPANY, INC....
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Donald Thomas, the former payroll director for the Grady Memorial Hospital Corporation, has been convicted by a jury for stealing over $480,000 from one of Georgia’s largest hospitals.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former president of International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) was sentenced today to 22 months in prison for conspiring to extort ILA Local 1235 longshoremen on the New Jersey piers for Christmastime tribute payments, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and Eastern District of New York U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch announced.
