News from December 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Orlando, FL - Senior U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp has sentenced Matthew Jones, a/k/a “Caligirl," “Dynamite2k," “Dynamite," “Tyler Zeddai," and “Mateo Jones" (44, Dallas, Texas) to five years and ten months in federal prison for illegally distributing controlled substances. He pleaded guilty on Aug. 26, 2014.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding key reforms at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other federal agencies after two years of unprecedented Congressional oversight.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Gregg A. Kaminsky has pleaded guilty to one count of wilfully failing to file a Foreign Bank Account Report with the U.S. Department of Treasury in connection with his concealment of income and assets in accounts in Switzerland, Hong Kong, and Thailand over several years, as well as his failure to report certain income earned in the virtual world, “Second Life.".
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. A Centralia resident charged by criminal complaint on Dec. 3, 2014, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014, for burglarizing a Federal Firearms Licensee...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Eastern District of California. Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. S. SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Michael Quesenberry, 26, of Sacramento; Ignacio Hernandez, 37, of Vallejo; and Rahson Woods, 35, of Vallejo, were charged today by a federal grand jury in separate indictments...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Anthony Delfarno, 52, of East Greenwich, R.I., was arraigned in U.S. District Court in Providence today on a which alleges that Delfarno used personal identifying information of his minor and adult children, his former spouse and a girlfriend, along with information from more than a dozen corporations that he created, to file fraudulent tax returns seeking more than $3.5 million dollars in tax refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ALTON CELESTINE, age 35, of Houma, was sentenced after having pled guilty to two counts of possession with intent to distribute cocaine. CELESTINE pled guilty to one count of possession with intent to distribute twenty-eight grams of cocaine base (“crack") and one count of possession with intent to distribute twenty-eight grams of crack and a quantity of cocaine hydrochloride.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that James Grimes, aged 29, of Columbus, Georgia, entered a guilty plea to one count of possession of child pornography on Dec. 17, 2014, before the Honorable Clay D. Land, Chief U.S. District Court Judge, in Columbus, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Behnam Halali, Ernesto Magat, Kraig Jilge, Karen Gagarin, and Alomkone Soundara, a/k/a Alex Soundara, were charged in an indictment unsealed yesterday in federal court in connection with a scheme involving fraudulent life insurance policies while each was employed at the American Income...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: A Miami woman charged with running an operation that threatened and defrauded Spanish-speaking consumers was sentenced today in federal district court in Miami, the Department of Justice and U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Chief U.S. District Judge Anne C. Conway today sentenced four individuals to federal prison for their participation in the sex trafficking of a minor. Xavier Francisco Villanueva, a/k/a “X," (25, Orlando) was sentenced to 19 years and 7 months in federal prison; Jose Carmona, a/k/a...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Federal prosecutors charged three people in connection with two separate explosions tied to the illegal and dangerous practice of extracting hash oil from marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney S. Amanda Marshall.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: A second superseding indictment was returned today against nine people charged in a bank fraud conspiracy that also stole the identifying information of at least two people, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger and Burlington County (NJ) Prosecutor Robert D. Bernardi. The defendants allegedly...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago travel agent was arrested today on a federal fraud charge for allegedly cheating at least 50 customers of approximately $525,000 by misrepresenting his ability to sell travel packages for the Hajj that included the visa required to enter Saudi Arabia.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Ann Marie Laurini, 48, of Fairport, N.Y., who was convicted of making false statements to Special Agents of the Internal Revenue Service, was sentenced to one year probation by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci.
By State Newswire | Dec 18, 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 the recent cyber-attack on Sony Pictures...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that DEMETRIOS PAPADAKOS, also known as “Jimmy," 67, of Danbury, was sentenced yesterday by Senior...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man pleaded guilty Thursday to robbing a drug store in east Wichita, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Philip R. Bartlett, the Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS"), announced today the arrest of KRIS SERGENTAKIS for retaliating against a witness and stalking. The Complaint...
