News from December 2014
By State Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, NJ - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), issued this statement regarding the U.S. - Cuba relationship.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that LORI DEXTER, age 52, of Atlanta, Georgia, pled guilty today to a one-count Superseding Bill of Information charging her with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Florida - Free-it's not a word you hear often during the holidays, but the City of Homestead is offering free transportation, free parking, free guided tours and free admission to Everglades and Biscayne National Parks as part of the Holiday Trolley. Take advantage of this special Homestead...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Denver, Colorado, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Northern District of Florida. Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. Follow @NDFLNews. PENSACOLA-Thirteen individuals from the Houston, Texas, and Pensacola areas were jointly indicted on federal drug trafficking and money laundering violations. They include: Rodney...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Derrick Godfrey, 45, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 509 months in prison, for an armed robbery spree over two days in June 2012, involving three communities. Godfrey was convicted June 27, 2014 of three counts of Hobbs Act Robbery and one count of brandishing a handgun during...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Eric C. Cusimano, 33, of Lakeway, Texas, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara, to conspiracy to commit securities fraud and tax evasion. Each charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ROBERT SWAN, age 52, of Ponchatoula, pled guilty today for his role in sexual exploiting children, including receiving images depicting the sexual victimization of children.
By State Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and former chair of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, today made the following statement regarding the release of Alan Gross...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of a superseding indictment charging John Robert Haldemann (30, Naples) with three counts of armed bank robbery. He faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in federal prison for each robbery. The indictment also notifies Haldemann that the United States is seeking a money judgment in the amount of $14,308.00, the total proceeds of the robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - Rogelio Contreras Villasenor, 49, of Caldwell, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to 41 months in prison for conspiracy to attempt to evade and defeat tax. United States District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Villasenor to serve three years of supervised release following his prison sentence...
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the following remarks expressing grave concern over the Republic of Turkey’s incursion into Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - MARK A. NIXON, 62, from Freedom, Oklahoma, pleaded guilty yesterday to submitting a falsified report of the financial condition of Freedom State Bank to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC"), announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. Nixon’s guilty plea comes approximately six months after the Bank’s failure on June 27, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a $6.7 million scheme that involved the distribution of approximately 2,253 kilograms of synthetic marijuana, commonly referred to as K2.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Ferrelview, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for using four young victims to produce child pornography as part of a nationwide child pornography ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: Gulfport, Miss -Aubrey Knox, 35, of Gautier, was sentenced today to 48 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release in a case involving the theft of 46 firearms, including machine guns, from a federal firearms licensee, U. S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today. He was also ordered to pay a $5,000 fine.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) released the following statement after the Senate confirmed Sarah Saldaña to be Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The Senate confirmed Ms. Saldaña by a vote of 55 to 39.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Richard J. Harley, of Shawnee on the Delaware, Pennsylvania, was convicted yesterday after a two-week trial before a federal jury sitting in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, of 23 counts of wire fraud, bank fraud...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Travis Birdsong, 35, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute 28 grams or more of crack cocaine, was sentenced to 60 months by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 MEXICO CITY — Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson traveled to Mexico for the third time since taking office a year ago, to meet with President Enrique Peña Nieto and members of his Cabinet. Secretary Johnson was accompanied by ...
