News from December 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2014
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Jerry Wayne Woodland, 52, of Hattiesburg, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to steal food and food-related items from the Forrest County Detention Center and conspiracy to commit mail fraud to cover it up, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Don Alway.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2014
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced today that ANAS K. WILSON, 32, a former resident of Utica, New York, has pled guilty to one count of theft of government property, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 641 and one count of aggravated identity theft, in violation of 18...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2014
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - DAVID M. GAMBUZZA, age 41, of Gloversville, was sentenced on Dec. 12, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Mae A. D’Agostino, to 18 months in prison for manufacturing marijuana, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and New York State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigations Captain Scott P. Coburn.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Alexsander Korotitsky, age 54, of Reisterstown, Maryland today to six months in prison followed by six months of home detention as part of one year of supervised release, for filing false income tax returns. Judge Bennett sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - An Irving, Texas, man was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 132 months in federal prison on a child pornography conviction, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2014
News Release: Officials encourage parolees to take advantage of services and make smart choices in leading law abiding lives or risk returning to prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2014
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Dec. 12, 2014, Jay A. Ochanpaugh, of St. Charles, Iowa, and formerly of Ames, Iowa, pled guilty to one count of willfully subscribing to a false income tax return, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. On Oct. 25, 2010, Ochanpaugh made and signed an individual income tax return, Form 1040, for the calendar year 2009, in which Ochanpaugh knowingly and intentionally failed to report all income he had received in 2009.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A convicted drug dealer has been sentenced in federal court to 24 years in prison for his April, 2014, conviction for 11 counts related to the unlawful distribution of oxycodone and Opana, both of which are Schedule II controlled substances, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, Dec. 15, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that WILLIAM DAVIS, 27, of Allentown, Pa., JEFFREY HOUSTON, 28, of Allentown, and CHRISTOPHER GAY...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Two Kansans pleaded guilty Monday to operating a synthetic drug business that generated at least $16 million in sales in less than two years, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - Former Kansas City builder F. Jeffrey Miller has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for violating the terms of his release when he became involved in a new real estate scam, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee majority staff released a report today that questions the independence and accountability of the peer review process in recent Endangered Species Act (ESA) listing decisions. The report entitled, studies the federal government’s peer review process...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Leonard Eugene King, age 35, of Fort Washington, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, and for possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, including powder and crack cocaine and marijuana.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2014
News Release: (Munising and Grand Marais, Mich.) Four long-time employees of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore - Pam Baker, Bill Magli, Jack Roberts, and Brenda St. Martin - will retire in late December 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2014
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Jose Luis Zavala, a 38-year-old resident of Brownsville, has been charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 1000 kilograms of marijuana and bribery of a public official, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Morris County, New Jersey, man pleaded guilty today to health care fraud in a scheme to bill for diagnostic testing services he did not render and to enable a cardiologist to evade the Medicare program’s pre-payment review of his claims, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2014
News Release: WICHITA FALLS, Texas - A local man was sentenced today to 63 months in federal prison and ordered to pay approximately $114,000 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), for using stolen personal identity information and fabricated documents to defraud the IRS of tax revenue, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2014
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - Mandie Marie Bishop, 34, of Big Stone Gap, Va., was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon to 24 months in federal prison for defrauding an elderly woman of $183,726.83.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2014
News Release: The Tioga and Glacier Point Roads in Yosemite National Park are closed for the season because of deep snow and icy conditions. A series of storm systems have passed through the Yosemite region over the last several weeks, resulting in snow accumulations of up to two feet of snow in the higher elevations...
