News from February 2014
By State News Post | Feb 7, 2014
The US State Department published a one page notice on Feb. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: Ricky L. Hatfield and his company, Hatfield Trucking, ordered to immediately cease operations
By DOT News Wire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has declared Florida-licensed truck driver Devon L. House to be an imminent hazard to public safety and has ordered him not to operate any commercial motor vehicle in interstate commerce. House was served the federal order on Jan. 14, 2014.
By DOT News Wire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: DOT to Call for Innovative Research Proposals from Small Businesses. The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) seeks innovative proposals from small businesses interested in conducting research needed by the Department’s agencies. On February 4, DOT’s John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems ...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: Dear Mr. Koskinen: Congratulations on your recent confirmation as Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. Your bi-partisan Senate confirmation marks a new beginning for the agency. We are glad that the IRS has implemented all of the recommendations proposed by the Treasury Inspector General for...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Special Agent in Charge Andrew W. Vale of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Albany Division, and Colonie New York Police Chief Steven Heider announced the arrest today of a Massachusetts man charged with enticing a 10 year old Albany County child to produce sexually explicit videos of himself and to then send those videos to him by email.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Damon Jerome Estep, a/k/a “Country", age 38, of California, Maryland, today to 188 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute and possession with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine hydrochloride and 280 grams of cocaine base, commonly known as crack.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A disbarred Somerset attorney was arrested this morning on fraud charges arising out of his promotion of a variety of investment opportunities.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Salvador Gonzales Elias, 46, of Los Angeles, California, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 115 months in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Elias was charged following an extensive investigation, dubbed “Operation Brusha" targeting illegal narcotics distribution in Scott County, Mississippi. He entered a guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate on Aug. 29, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: Defendant used brutal tactics to victimize multiple women and girls into prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jorge Laurido, 54, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, was sentenced to five years probation and a fine of $10,000 by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The last five pending defendants in a series of huge cases targeting the Nuestra Familia organization pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court this week, U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Calixtro Israel Sanchez, aka Cali Killa, aka Cali, 26, of Hanford, pleaded guilty today to ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: Former Jarrell (TX) Police Chief Andres Tomas Gutierrez, age 51, faces up to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty this morning to a wire fraud/theft of honest services charge announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman; Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent In Charge Janice...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Britt Martin, also known as "Big Baby," 30, formerly of Northford, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: RENO, Nev. - In the first federal jury trial of its kind in Nevada involving synthetic drugs commonly referred to as “spice," a Reno, Nevada man has been convicted of multiple counts related to the distribution and possession of the dangerous substances, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: Dear Mr. Koskinen: Congratulations on your recent confirmation as Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. Your bi-partisan Senate confirmation marks a new beginning for the agency. We are glad that the IRS has implemented all of the recommendations proposed by the Treasury Inspector General for...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that criminal charges have been filed in U.S. District Court in Williamsport against Derl Knarr of Herndon, Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Woodrow R. Johnson, Jr, 52, of Capitol Heights, Md., pled guilty today to a charge of voluntary manslaughter stemming from a recent traffic fatality in which he struck a pedestrian while he was on PCP, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Carl E. Murphy, Jr., a 33 year old resident of Harrisburg, PA, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo, following Murphy’s guilty plea to Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - DR. KURT MORGESTER pled guilty to fraudulently obtaining prescriptions for Oxycondone. According to court documents, on multiple occasions in December 2012 and January 2013, Dr. Morgester wrote and picked up prescriptions for his dental patients. The patients had no knowledge of these prescriptions.
