News from December 2014
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - A 31-year-old Salvadoran man who posed as a human smuggler in order to collect thousands of U.S. dollars from would-be customers was arrested here Dec. 9.
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement condemning the terrorist attack in Pakistan, whose victims included 132 children...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: The first white paper in the bipartisan 21st Century Cures initiative asked, “How can we best leverage advances in translational research, health information technology, and communications so that we can collectively ‘connect the dots’ more quickly and start developing potential therapies and cures?" A new partnership between Autism Speaks and Google, MSSNG, exemplifies the opportunities technology can and will provide in finding more cures and treatments.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: PIKEVILLE, KY - The former Mayor of Martin, Ky., has been sentenced to 90 months in federal prison for various crimes including civil rights offenses and identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: St. Anthony Village Agrees in Principle to Allow Abu-Huraira Islamic Center to Worship in St. Anthony Business Center.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: Spotting molecule-sized features-common in computer circuits and nanoscale devices-may become both easier and more accurate with a sensor developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). With their new design, NIST scientists may have found a way to sidestep some of the problems in calibrating atomic force microscopes (AFMs).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: PHOENIX - Gregory Lynn Shrader, 56, of Jay, Okla., was sentenced to 84 months of imprisonment by Judge Neil V. Wake, on Dec. 16, 2014. Shrader had been convicted by a federal jury on Sept, 11, 2014, for willfully making a threat to kill Sheriff Joe Arpaio by means of an explosive, transport of explosive material with the intent to intimidate Sheriff Arpaio, mailing injurious articles, and possession of explosive material by a prohibited possessor.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that today in Harrisburg United States District Court Judge John E. Jones III sentenced Wendy Weikal-Beauchat, age 46, to 15 years’ imprisonment plus restitution and forfeiture totaling over $12 million for wire fraud and money laundering in connection with the misuse of her clients’ funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Andrew B. Zelenkofske, 54, an accountant, of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for defrauding former clients of over $1 million. Between January 2009 and May 2012, he defrauded three of his victims by soliciting funds from them to invest in a start-up biotechnology...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: The first white paper in the bipartisan 21st Century Cures initiative asked, “How can we best leverage advances in translational research, health information technology, and communications so that we can collectively ‘connect the dots’ more quickly and start developing potential therapies and cures?" A new partnership between Autism Speaks and Google, MSSNG, exemplifies the opportunities technology can and will provide in finding more cures and treatments.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Randall D. Pitcher, age 52, of Pagosa Springs, Colorado, who owns and operates the Wolf Creek Ski Area within the confines of the Rio Grande National Forest, was sentenced today in Durango by U.S. Magistrate Judge David L. West to serve five years on supervised probation, including 500 hours...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: COLUMBUS - A federal grand jury has charged Andre W. Byrd, A.K.A. “Fat Dre", 39, of Pickerington, Ohio, with one count of the possession of a firearm, one count of the possession of heroin, one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute heroin and cocaine, two counts of money laundering and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering in a superseding indictment returned in Columbus.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: After a 12-day trial, a federal jury convicted former North Miami Mayor Marie Lucie Tondreau, a/k/a “Lucie Tondreau," 54, for her recruitment of straw buyers and other conduct in an $8,000,000 mortgage fraud 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 Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for possessing PCP with the intent to distribute and for illegally possessing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ----United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that a Federal Grand Jury in Columbia, South Carolina, returned Indictment(s) against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former collateralized mortgage obligation (CMO) bond trader was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for engaging in a fraudulent trading scheme in which he manipulated the prices of CMOs by millions of dollars over a period of four years, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: (PORTLAND -, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Gary Prolman, Esq., 52, of Saco, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to two years in prison and two years of supervised release for conspiracy to launder $177,500 worth of marijuana trafficking proceeds. Prolman pleaded guilty on April 29, 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2014
News Release: The recommendations released today include: * International: Work with international governments, Regional Fisheries Management Organizations, and others to combat IUU fishing and seafood fraud at the international level. * Enforcement: Strengthen enforcement tools to combat IUU fishing and seafood...
