News from December 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2014
News Release: Background. Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and David A. Hubbert, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division of the Department of Justice, announced that WILBUR ANTHONY HUFF, a Kentucky businessman, pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2014
News Release: Savannah, GA: Richard Adam Hall, 52, a former Chatham County Deputy Sheriff from Savannah, Georgia, pled guilty yesterday before United States District Court Judge William T. Moore, Jr. to producing child pornography. Yesterday’s plea resolves federal charges brought against Hall, which alleged that Hall coerced a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2014
News Release: A man whose conviction for distributing heroin to a person who died of a heroin overdose was overturned earlier this year was sentenced yesterday in federal court to serve 30 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2014
News Release: (PHILADELPHIA) - U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger announced today that the Eastern District of Pennsylvania collected $2,373,688,153 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year (FY) 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 23, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to the Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment requesting information about a devastating cyber attack in which hackers believed to be from North Korea stole soon-to-be-released films and the personal information of over 47,000 current and former employees, including their social security numbers and healthcare records.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today released a new staff report, “The Internal Revenue Service’s Targeting of Conservative Tax-Exempt Applicants: Report of Findings for the 113th Congress." The report represents findings from the review of over 1.3 million pages of documents and 52 transcribed interviews with IRS, Treasury, and Justice Department employees.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -Aaron G. Seltzer, age 38, of Trappe, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud in connection with a scheme in which he converted funds intended for real estate investments to his personal use.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2014
News Release: United States Congressman Michael Grimm Pleads Guilty to Causing the Filing of a False and Fraudulent Tax Return.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2014
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Dec. 22, 2014, Morgan Michael Hermiston, age 26, of LeClaire, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge James E. Gritzner to 46 months imprisonment, announced U. S. Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Hermiston was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release following his imprisonment, and to pay $100 towards the Crime Victims Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2014
News Release: DENVER -- Gregory Lynn Hopson, age 44, of Westminster, Colorado, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Lewis T. Babcock to serve 420 months (35 years) in federal prison for the transportation and possession of child pornography, to run concurrently with a Colorado state prison sentence for...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2014
News Release: A man who sold crack cocaine out of his Dubuque, Iowa candy store was sentenced today to just under 6 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2014
News Release: MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN - Douglas Emil Kugler, Jr., 34, of Eagle River, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 71 months in federal prison for abusive sexual contact with a child under twelve years old, U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. announced today. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge R. Allan Edgar ordered Kugler to serve 20 years of supervised release following completion of his prison term, and to pay a $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2014
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By Interior Newswire | Dec 23, 2014
News Release: Contact: Sandy Snell-Dobert, 970-641-2337 x227.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Leslie R. Caldwell, the Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, and Michael E. Horowitz, the Justice Department Inspector General, announced that ROBERT LUSTYIK, a former Special Agent with...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Terrance Milik Marshall, age 41, of Scaggsville, Maryland, yesterday to eight years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing two firearms in a school zone.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that a criminal information was filed today charging Adrea Cannon, age 21, of Portsmouth, Virginia with aggravated identity theft in connection with the unlawful use of a bank account number belonging to a legitimate account holder on or about March 12, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2014
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