News from December 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Independence, Mo., business owner pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a multi-million dollar, multi-state conspiracy to transport hundreds of thousands of cartons of contraband cigarettes from the Kansas City, Mo., area to the state of New York, where they were sold primarily on Indian reservations.
By State Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued this statement following the U.S. government announcement that North Korea is responsible for the cyber attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Larry Wszalek, Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division of the Department of Justice, announced today that THOMAS NASTASI III, was sentenced to 12 months in prison for failing to pay to the Internal...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Keenya Meshell Banks, age 41, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, was charged by criminal complaint with access device fraud, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain and use DEA government credit cards. Ms. Banks was arrested and had her initial appearance on Dec. 18, 2014, in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt. She was released under the supervision of U.S. Pretrial Services.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - A Pike Road, Alabama man was sentenced to serve 51 months in prison yesterday for committing stolen identity refund fraud (SIRF) crimes, announced U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. for the Middle District of Alabama and Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Larry J. Wszalek for the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Warns that “Parents Must Be Relentless About Reading Children’s Text Messages and Checking Their Social Media Accounts.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Carlos McKenzie, a/k/a Charles Williams, a/k/a General, 36, of Jamaica, was convicted by a federal jury of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. McKenzie faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, a fine of $5,000,000 or both.
By State Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, NJ - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent the following letter to Secretary of State John Kerry urging him to consider re-designating North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism in wake of the North Korean cyber-terror attack on Sony Pictures.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Carlsbad, NM and Pine Springs, TX -President Obama recently issued an Executive Order declaring Friday, December 26 a paid federal holiday to allow federal employees an extra day to celebrate with their families. Superintendents in Carlsbad Caverns National Park and Guadalupe Mountains National Park have announced that both parks will be open on Friday the 26 under regular winter operating hours.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: MINEOLA, N.Y. - Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice was joined by Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and city and federal officials yesterday afternoon to announce the dismantling of a multi-million dollar illegal drug pipeline which ran directly from Mexico to New York City and Long Island as part of an investigation involving local, state and federal law enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Mary Brainard, 62, of Seneca Falls, NY, who was convicted of devising a wire fraud scheme, was sentenced to 46 months in prison U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci and ordered to pay restitution totaling $277,456.90.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that Noble Drilling (U.S.) LLC was sentenced today for committing eight felony environmental and maritime crimes arising out of its operation of the drill ship Noble Discoverer and the drilling unit Kulluk in violation of federal law in Alaska...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Chairman Bob Goodlatte ( R-Va.) released the following joint statement after the Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed that North Korea is responsible for the Sony cyber-attack...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - President Obama signed into law Thursday four bipartisan bills that will modernize, strengthen, and improve our nation’s cyber security defenses. The measures are the first major cyber security bills to become law in several years.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that Charlie Shrem, the former Chief Executive Officer and Compliance Officer of BitInstant, a Bitcoin exchange company, and the former Vice Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Tristram J. Coffin submitted his letter of resignation to President Obama today, effective Jan. 12, 2015.
By State Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding a proposed United Nations Security Council Resolution that would establish timetables for the recognition of Palestinian statehood...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: OXFORD, Miss. - Felicia C. Adams, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi; Donald Always, Special Agent in Charge at the Federal Bureau of InvestigationDerrick L. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General; and Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood announced that.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Los Valles Drug Trafficking Organization Imported Tons of Cocaine into the Eastern District of Virginia and Throughout United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Amber Lopresti, 28, of Taunton, was indicted for embezzling the U.S. mail and stealing the contents of the U.S. mail while she was an employee of the United States Postal Service in Hanover.
