News from December 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Rashmi Airan-Pace (42, Miami) today pleaded guilty, in Miami, to conspiracy to commit wire, mail, and bank fraud. The Plea Agreement and Information were filed in Tampa and then transferred to the U.S. District Court for the Southern...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that DAKOTA LANE WILLISTON, age 19, of Idabel, Oklahoma was arraigned in federal court today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: GREAT FALLS - Former University of Great Falls student, Brenden James Leischner, 24, now of Indio, California, was sentenced to six months in federal custody for Federal Student Financial Aid Fraud, by U.S. District Judge Brian Morris. The United States Attorney’s Office announced that today’s sentence...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Bureau of Reclamation is seeking public comment on a draft Reclamation Manual release for climate change adaptation. This policy establishes how Reclamation will address climate change impacts upon Reclamation's mission, facilities, operations and personnel.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: A five-count indictment was filed charging seven people and a Florida company for their roles in a multi-million dollar health-care fraud conspiracy involving an experimental form of chiropractic manipulation, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Leroy J. Smith, 37, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty plea to possession of a firearm as a convicted felon, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime before U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci. The charges carry a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison and a maximum of life.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Obtained More Than $350,000 in Fraudulent Tax Refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Ten people were indicted in federal court for attending an animal-fighting venture, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Spokane - Today, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Washington announced that a former supervisor and two former managers of CH2M Hill Hanford Group Inc., (CHG) would each be required to pay tens of thousands of dollars in civil fines for their roles in the multimillion dollar...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Harrison County Supervisor Kim Savant, 65, of Gulfport, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to commit bribery in connection with his role as a board member of the Harrison County Utility Authority, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis, FBI Special Agent in Charge Donald Alway, and Acting Special Agent in Charge Jerome R. McDuffie with IRS Criminal Investigation.
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 KHALID ABOUTAYEB, 46, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp today sentenced Raul Cruz (37, Hialeah) to five years in federal prison for credit card fraud. As part of his sentence, the Court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $159,219.94, the proceeds of the fraud. Cruz pleaded guilty on Aug. 26, 2014.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) today announced that Chris Brown has been hired to be the Staff Director of the Subcommittee on Aviation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that PAUL E. GARDNER, age 57, of New Orleans, was charged yesterday in a Bill of Information with one count of Wire Fraud alleging embezzlement which took place during GARDNER’s employment with Clovelly Oil Co., L.L.C. (“Clovelly Oil").
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA: Following the removal of the famous Building 104 at Federal Square surprises were found when the building was taken down. Known as the site that manufactured millions of semi-automatic Rifles.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Peoria, Ill. - Two brothers, who formerly owned and operated a Fast Stop service station in Peoria, Ill., entered pleas of guilty today to conspiracy to defraud, as announced by U.S. Attorney Jim Lewis, Central District of Illinois. Sentencing is scheduled on April 27, 2015, for Shaher M. Mizyed, 50, of Naperville, Ill., and Mohammad M. Mizyed, 46, of the 2800 block of West Playden, Peoria, Ill.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced the sentencing of defendant MARIA C. EDROSA by the Honorable Frances Tydingco-Gatewood, Chief Judge, District Court of Guam. EDROSA was one of the defendants in the Organized Crime Drug...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - MARK KISTLER, of St. Louis County, was indicted today for bank fraud in connection with the financial exploitation of an elderly person.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: HONOLULU - A federal grand jury today indicted Albert S.N. Hee of Honolulu on seven counts of corrupt interference with the administration of the Internal Revenue laws and six counts of submitting a false tax return for the years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. The indictment superseded a prior one-count indictment in September 2014, which had charged the false tax return for 2007 alone.
