News from December 2014

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of New York. Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Joseph Paddock, 21, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Pine Hill, N.M., was sentenced this morning to a year in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. sentenced Thomas W. Stringfellow, 55, of Placerville, today to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay $687,182 in restitution for willfully making false tax returns, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Timon Otis Sandidge, 38, of Temple Hills, Md., pled guilty today to federal narcotics and firearms offenses for his role in a conspiracy to distribute large quantities of cocaine in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Andrew G. McCabe, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Defendant Charged with Embezzling Money from Bank of the West,.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: MIAMI - Two Honduran nationals were extradited from Honduras to the United States as a result of their alleged participation in a large-scale drug trafficking organization that operates in the western portion of Honduras. These individuals allegedly knew that the large amounts of cocaine they were trafficking would end up in the United States. They arrived in South Florida this afternoon.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Tanika Hawkins, 37, of Port Jervis, N.Y., is scheduled to be arraigned in U.S. District Court in Providence on Dec. 23, 2014, on a returned on Wednesday charging her with two counts of aggravated identity theft and two counts of wire fraud.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Two members of a large-scale drug trafficking organization have admitted conspiring to distribute hundreds of grams of heroin throughout Monmouth and Ocean counties, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Robert Lee Hatcher III, Willie Dewayne Lynch, Andrew Oliver, and Arthur James Freeman have been convicted and sentenced for defrauding and conspiring to defraud The Home Depot, Inc.

By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Join a National Park Ranger to learn about the untold stories of the trees at the Obed Wild and Scenic River, on Saturday, December 20. The program will begin at the Lilly Bluff Overlook parking lot at 1 p.m. (EST) and will feature a short walk to the Boulder Field. The roles trees and wood products have played in our history and how they have shaped past events and provided opportunity in our community will be discussed.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: - Alleged Violations Involved Federally Funded Transportation Projects in Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Georgia and New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Ten Aryan Brotherhood of (ABT) gang members and associates were sentenced to prison this week for their roles in the violent ABT enterprise, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA, GA - Eight drug traffickers have been sentenced to federal prison for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: LITTLE ROCK - A former and one current Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) employee and one feeding program sponsor have been indicted for their roles in a conspiracy to steal federal money. Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced unsealing...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Antoinette Danielle White, 23, and Garland David McKenzie, 21, both of Pensacola, Florida were sentenced today for possession of stolen firearms. White and McKenzie were sentenced by United States District Callie ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: A six-count federal indictment was filed charging a Toledo man with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a kilogram of heroin, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Former Defense Department Employee Sentenced to 40 Months in Prison for $2.5 Million Health Care Fraud.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Josue Joel Castaneda-Cuyuch, 31, a citizen of Guatemala, has been indicted and charged with being found in the United States after having been previously deported.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Kara Harper, 31, of Green River, Wyoming, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on Dec. 18, 2014, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin resulting in death. Harper was arrested in Green River, Wyoming. She received 72 months imprisonment, to...

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today said tax reform must end the antiquated and distorted tax treatment of various capital investments across the economy following the release of a CBO report outlining the scope of the issue.