News from December 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Gary.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Wentong Cai, 30, a Chinese national in the United States on a student Visa, pleaded guilty this morning to conspiracy to violate the Arms Export Control Act and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) by scheming illegally to export defense articles with military application...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - Jenelle Robyn Pinkston, age 47, of Albany, Oregon was sentenced today to 37 months in federal prison after earlier pleading guilty to calling in a bomb threat. Chief U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken imposed conditions of post-prison supervision requiring Pinkston to undergo mental health treatment.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: - Prosecution Part of Project Recoil.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Nicholas Mazza, who worked as a girls softball coach in Cobb County, Ga., has been arraigned on federal charges of distributing and possessing child pornography. Mazza was indicted by a federal grand jury on December 9, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Westmoreland County man has been convicted by a federal jury in Pittsburgh on charges of bankruptcy fraud, concealment of assets, and making false statements under oath, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Steven Staltare pleaded guilty today to income tax evasion. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Kenneth Campbell, a/k/a “Scrilla," Corey Thomas, a/k/a “Lil Corey," Adrian Bridges, Juarez Johnson, Justin Cody, a/k/a “Decatur Slim," and Aeshia Wilmore have been sentenced for their roles in a $1 million fraudulent income tax refund scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for robbing two area banks in May 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Cherry Creek, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on Dec. 15, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Robert Coppack, 41, of LaVerne, California, was ordered today to spend five months in community confinement and to pay $53, 354 in restitution for interfering with a flight crew. On May 13, 2014, Coppack intimidated and assaulted flight crew members and flight attendants on a US Airways...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: COLUMBUS, OHIO - Oxford Mining Company, LLC (Oxford) has been ordered to pay $650,000 in fines and community service for the negligent failure to report violations of the company’s permit in connection with its coal mining operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: Gettysburg Attorney Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for Defrauding Clients of Over $6 Million.
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 released the following statement regarding the announcement by the White House of the President’s intention to sign the Ukraine Freedom Support Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 36-year-old Beaumont, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: OXFORD, Miss. - Felicia C. Adams, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi, together with Acting Special Agent in Charge, Jerome R. McDuffie with IRS Criminal Investigation-New Orleans Field Office announce.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Richard Ritchie, 45, of Philadelphia, William O’Donnell, 62, of Cherry Hill, NJ, and Christopher Prophet, 43, of Richboro, PA, pleaded guilty today to RICO conspiracy and other charges in connection with an extortion case in which Ironworkers Local 401 used violence and intimidation to...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces today that James Patrick Foreman (44, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of advertising child pornography. He faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years, up to 30 years, in federal prison, and a potential life term of supervision. Foreman has remained in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service since his arrest in October 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on Dec. 16, 2014, United States District Court Judge Joseph F. Bataillon sentenced Karen L. Gagner of Lincoln, Nebraska, age 68, to a 5 year term of probation, following her conviction for embezzlement and theft from an employee pension benefit plan. Ms. Gagner was also ordered to make restitution in the amount of $36,815.30.
