News from December 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich has sentenced Courtney Garner (31, Tampa) to 15 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Garner pleaded guilty on Sept. 11, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp today sentenced Justin Brian Smith (28, Orlando) 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...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) outlined seven principles needed to guide comprehensive tax reform forward, saying such reform should embrace economic growth, fairness, simplicity, permanence, competitiveness, promoting savings and investments, and revenue neutrality.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Hector Ortiz, 49, of Altamonte Springs, Florida, who was convicted of committing wire fraud as part of an international commodity deal, was sentenced to 41 months in by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $852,500.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: SAN JOSE - John Nyunt pleaded guilty in federal court today, to possession of stolen firearms, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Billy Cooks, 36, aka “Red Dollaz," pleaded guilty on Dec. 12, 2014, to conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, namely methamphetamine, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Previously, Cooks’ co-conspirator, E’lala Frank, 36, also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: With this stop-and-go tax extender bill, Congress is turning in its tax homework eleven months late and expecting to earn full credit. This package of incentives - which applies only to 2014 - will last two more weeks before families and businesses will be thrown back into the dark about what taxes they owe. This tax bill doesn’t have the shelf life of a carton of eggs.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: Lariva Prosecuted as Part of Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Thomas Mims, age 53, of Baltimore, today to 15 years in prison, followed by eight years of supervised release, for robbery and using a firearm during a robbery. Judge Quarles also ordered Mims to pay $400 in restitution.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: Building on President Obama’s commitment to strengthen the government-to-government relationship with tribal nations, Secretary Moniz traveled to Arizona last week for a summit and roundtable dialogue with tribal leaders. This marks the first official visit of a Cabinet Secretary with tribal leaders in Indian Country after the White House Tribal Nations Conference earlier this month.
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 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 terrorist attack on a school in Pakistan...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: MADISON, Wis. - ―John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced the arrests of John C. Morrison, 70, and Anna F. Novak, 57, both of Ashland, Wis. Morrison and Novak were arrested this morning in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., following their indictment on December...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: Exchanged Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars of Food Stamps for Cash.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that a federal grand jury recently returned a 33-count indictment charging ten defendants with various credit card fraud and identity theft offenses, including a conspiracy to use stolen credit card information to make over $1.7 million in fraudulent transactions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: html xmlns=". USDOJ: US Attorney's Office - CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA - 163. LOS ANGELES - Two San Fernando Valley men were charged today in a federal fraud case that alleges they ran a 15-year-long Ponzi scheme that collected hundreds of millions from investors who...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - An Oregon man has been sentenced in federal court to nine months in prison and four years supervised release on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute marijuana, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Dec. 15, 2014, Monte D. Perry, 26, of Madison, IL, pled guilty to a...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Rogelio Contreras Villasenor, 49, of Caldwell, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to 41 months in prison for conspiracy to attempt to evade and defeat tax, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. United States District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Villasenor to serve three years of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
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