News from February 2014
By DOE Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - At the NASCAR Plaza in Charlotte, N.C. today, officials from the Energy Department, NASCAR and Sprint Corp. announced the companies’ participation in the Department’s Workplace Charging Challenge -- a collaborative effort to increase the number of U.S. employers offering workplace charging...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: A woman who used Craigslist to try to hire someone to commit murder was sentenced on February 5, 2014, to more than seven years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Jackson, TN - Christopher Eugene Reynolds, 39, a former police officer of the Selmer, Tenn., Police Department, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge J. Daniel Breen to serve one year and one day in prison following his conviction for violating the civil rights of an arrestee, announced United States Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: “As the jury unanimously found, Mathew Martoma cultivated and purchased the confidence of doctors with secret knowledge of an experimental Alzheimer's drug, and used it to engage in illegal insider trading. Martoma bought the answer sheet before the exam - more than once - netting a quarter billion dollars...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will offer free camping for backcountry camping permits and Alum Ford Campground for the nights of Feb. 15, 16, and 17, 2014. It is a good time to explore the beautiful mountain terrain before the leaves come back on the trees! For more information about the fee waivers, you may call the Bandy Creek Visitor Center at (423) 286-7275.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Yevette Lauren Walton and Lakisha Lashell Rogers have been handed prison sentences for conspiring to submit fraudulent tax refund claims in the names of 53 stolen identities during the 2013 tax season, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today along with Lucy Cruz, special agent...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - The principal of two companies was sentenced yesterday for her role in a fraudulent scheme in which executives agreed to pay secret kickbacks to an investment fund representative.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Most Lucrative Insider Trading Scheme Ever Charged Earned S.A.C. Capital $275 Million In Illegal Profits And Avoided Losses.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Committee leaders today introduced bipartisan legislation that authorizes the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) to carry out its vital missions, improves USCG mission effectiveness, helps replace and modernize aging Coast Guard assets in a cost effective manner, enhances oversight, and reduces...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, February 6, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned a six-count indictment charging PAUL GOTTA, 55...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A convicted felon who possessed a gun with an obliterated serial number in July of 2013 was sentenced today to two years and six months in federal prison, United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced. Benjamin Payne, 47, of Clear Creek, West Virginia, previously pleaded guilty in September...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a New York business must pay up to $1 million in fines, forfeiture and restitution after pleading guilty in federal court today to its role in a conspiracy to transport hundreds of thousands of cartons of contraband cigarettes from the Kansas City, Mo., area to the state of New York, where they were sold primarily on Indian reservations.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Sabrena Karim, age 63, of Baltimore, Maryland, on charges that she is in contempt of a court order permanently enjoining Karim from preparing or assisting anyone in preparing any document for filing in any bankruptcy court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 55-year-old Houston man has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in a multi-state health care fraud scheme in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: VICTORIA, Texas - Hallettsville resident James Leland Copeland, 42, has been sentenced to a significant term of federal imprisonment for receiving child pornography, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Copeland pleaded guilty on May 10, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Toni Weirauch, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI"), announced the indictment today of PETER AMREIN, an asset manager at a Swiss...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Watertown, South Dakota, man charged with Unlawful Taking of Migratory Birds and Lacey Act Violations pled guilty and was sentenced on February 4, 2014, by U.S. Magistrate Judge William D. Gerdes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Tax return preparers Marlin Jermaine Beckett and Gia Cooper Beckett have sent to prison for making up deductions that resulted in approximately $360,000 in fraudulent client refunds, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Lucy Cruz, special agent in charge of Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI). Both pleaded guilty in April 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - The National Park Service is pleased to announce that passenger ferry service through Island Express Ferry Service will begin on Feb. 15, 2014, departing from the Beaufort and from Harkers Island. The Harkers Island Visitor Center will also re-open to visitors on Saturdays and Sundays beginning Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James T. Hayes, Jr., the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (“ICE") Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI"), announced today the return to the Polish Government...
