News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 25-year-old Port Arthur, Texas man has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: Bookkeeper sentenced to 21 months after stealing nearly $150,000 from local business.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: First Criminal Prosecution in the United States For Campaign Finance Coordination between Political Committees.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Vincent Giamo and his wife Mary Giamo, both of Orchard Park, N.Y., who were convicted of tax violations, were sentenced by Chief U.S District Judge William M. Skretny. Vincent Giamo, who was convicted of tax evasion, was sentenced...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Elizabeth Warren, Member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter yesterday to Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen requesting that she revise the rules governing how and when the Board of Governors may delegate critical supervisory and enforcement responsibilities to Board staff.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Loushawn Adaryl Robinson, a/k/a “Cadillac," age 36, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 151 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for armed bank robbery. Judge Blake ordered Robinson to pay restitution of $23,639 and found that Robinson was a career offender, based on two previous convictions for robbery with a deadly weapon and armed robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: FARGO - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Feb. 12, 2014, Juan Cerna, 26, Moorhead Minn., was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Ralph R Erickson, to 18 ½ years for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of a controlled substance.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: GREENBELT, Md. - A Takoma Park, Md., man pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft arising from two separate residential mortgage fraud schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Jefferson City, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges related to receiving and attempting to distribute child pornography over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson and South Dakota Attorney General Marty J. Jackley announced that eighteen (18) individuals have pleaded guilty and were sentenced in both State and Federal Court to fines, restitution, and civil damages in excess of $235,000 for wildlife violations that occurred at a commercial hunting operation in Todd County, South Dakota between 2008-2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Rodney Scott Bush, age 49, of Fort Washington, Maryland pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit bank robbery and five bank robberies. As part of his plea agreement, Bush also admitted committing two additional bank robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: PETER GALVAN, 54, a resident of St. Tammany Parish, and the former St. Tammany Parish Coroner, was sentenced today to serve 24 months in federal custody followed by one year of supervised release, fined $5,000, and ordered to pay restitution of at least $193,388. GALVAN pled guilty to conspiring to steal government funds from the St. Tammany Parish Coroner’s Office on Oct. 23, 2013, announced U. S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: MINERAL, CA - Lassen Volcanic National Park entrance fees will be waived during the Presidents Day weekend, February 15-17. “The park is finally beginning to look like winter with the recent storm that brought snow to the park’s higher elevations," stated Park Superintendent, Darlene M. Koontz. “Snow...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: A superseding indictment was returned last Friday charging defendants Christian Keston John, Marvin Johnson and Shaquan Jones, who were members of a violent criminal enterprise, with racketeering, consisting of 23 predicate acts, including six murders, two attempted murders, three armed robberies, kidnapping...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 25-year-old Port Arthur, Texas man has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: Rocky Mountain National Park announces the availability of the Grand Ditch Breach Restoration Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) Record of Decision. This project will restore the natural hydrological processes, ecological services, and wilderness character of the area in the Upper Kawuneeche Valley impacted by the 2003 Grand Ditch breach.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - Joshua Earls, 30, of Garland, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Barbara M. G. Lynn to 144 months (12 years) in federal prison and a lifetime of supervised release, following his guilty plea in October 2013 to one count of receipt of child pornography. Today’s announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal, state and local authorities this morning arrested 20 individuals who are named in two federal indictments that target manufacturers and distributors of Phencyclidine - commonly known as PCP or “angel dust" - a dangerous narcotic with deep ties to the violent Grape Street Crips and other South Los Angeles street gangs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal, state and local authorities this morning arrested 20 individuals who are named in two federal indictments that target manufacturers and distributors of Phencyclidine - commonly known as PCP or “angel dust" - a dangerous narcotic with deep ties to the violent Grape Street Crips and other South Los Angeles street gangs.
