News from December 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Ethan Jackson Will Serve Ten Years In Federal Prison; Case Also Involved Heroin And Prescription Pills.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The owner and president of a dietary supplement manufacturing company in Flanders, New Jersey, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in relation to a scheme in which he directed the sale of diluted and adulterated dietary ingredients and supplements sold by his company, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - A 131-count criminal indictment was unsealed today in Boston in connection with the 2012 nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak, the Justice Department announced. Barry J. Cadden, owner and head pharmacist of New England Compounding Center (NECC) and NECC’s supervisory pharmacist Glenn A. Chin were charged with 25 acts of second-degree murder in Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: ( - PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Raymundo Done, 24, and Jorge Marcano, 30, of Providence, have been sentenced in U.S. District Court in Providence for their roles in a heroin trafficking conspiracy in Pawtucket and Providence, announced Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New England field division; United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Pawtucket Police Chief Paul King.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Upcoming Webinars. December 18: Live Webinar on Best Practices in Energy Data Collection and Tracking in the Public Sector. Webinar Sponsor: Weatherization and Intergovernmental Programs Office. The Energy Department will present a live webinar titled “Best Practices in Energy Data Collection and Tracking...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp sentenced Justin Brian (28, Orlando) yesterday to 12 years and 7 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute Methylone. He pleaded guilty on July 7, 2014. Six additional members of the drug trafficking ring previously pleaded guilty and were...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: PHOENIX - On Dec. 15, 2014, Pernell Corna Sam, 38, of Chinle, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 168 months imprisonment followed by five years of supervised release. Sam pleaded guilty on Aug. 14, 2014, to one count of assault on a child resulting in serious bodily injurySam’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge John E. Steele has sentenced Jerry Ward (48, Fort Myers) to 15 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of ammunition. He was found guilty by a Fort Myers federal jury on June 12, 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement today, praising President Obama’s announcement of new steps to open up relations with the Cuban people...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: “Our efforts to reform Rikers Island continue. Following last week’s conviction of correction officer Austin Romain for taking bribes and smuggling drugs into Rikers Island, today a jury convicted former Rikers Island captain Terrence Pendergrass of a federal civil rights crime. The jury unanimously...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Burlington County, New Jersey, man today admitted converting to his own use Retirement Savings benefits and Veterans Affairs Dependency and Indemnity Compensation payments that were wrongfully paid to his deceased mother, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On Dec. 16, 2014, Anthony J. Simmons, a 30 year-old resident of Shenandoah, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to serve 57 months in prison for possession of child pornography, and to serve 10 years of supervised release following imprisonment, announced United States Attorney Nicholas Klinefeldt.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL LOMBARDO, Jr., 38, of Stamford, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Christopher A. Smith was confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday, December 16th, 2014, as the Department of Energy’s Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Van Buren, MO -Christmas is a favorite time of year for many people. The smell of freshly baked cookies, snowflakes falling softly to the ground and twinkling lights around every corner remind us of special memories of years past. In honor of the season, Ozark National Scenic Riverways was pleased to host An Ozark Christmas Sunday on Dec. 14, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Holden woman was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Worcester in connection with a scheme to steal nearly $1 million from her elderly in-laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that TENILLE NIELSON, age 34, of Franklinton, was sentenced today for her role in a scheme to defraud the Louisiana Workforce Commission of unemployment benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that three defendants in an insurance fraud scheme were sentenced and one ordered to pay more than $190,000 for staging automobile accidents in order to collect insurance payments.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: CINCINNATI - Christopher Blain, 38, of Cincinnati, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 222 months in prison for receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a former Pennsylvania state prison inmate pleaded guilty today in Scranton before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley to mailing a letter threatening to injure and kill a Monroe County Common Pleas Judge.
