News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Paula Reid, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Secret Service, Miami Field Office, and J. Dennis Scott, Chief, North Miami Beach...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley sentenced Brent W. Wilder, 44, of Antelope, today to two years and nine months in prison, and on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton sentenced Michelle Wright, 32, of Stockton, to three years in prison and one year of home...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -Abdullah Aljaradi, age 52, and Ahmed Ayedh Al-Jabrati, age 58, both citizens of Yemen residing in Baltimore, have each pleaded guilty to wire fraud in connection with a scheme to illegally redeem food stamp benefits in exchange for cash. Aljaradi’s guilty plea was entered on February 5th and Al-Jabrati entered his plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that a New Jersey man was sentenced to four years and nine months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute oxycodone, a powerful prescription painkiller. William Ponder, 24 of Teaneck, New Jersey previously pled guilty in...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., February 6, 2014 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings delivered the following statement on the House floor today in support of H.R. 2954, the Public Access and Lands Improvement Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 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 a federal jury in New Haven today found New Haven residents Richard Anderson, also known as...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Researchers from the National Ocean Service’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) studied the reef’s ecology to help establish baseline conditions that coastal managers can use to measure changes resulting from new efforts to manage pollution. Among the items studied were habitat types, coral cover, fish and pollution stressors such as nutrients, sedimentation, toxic contaminants in Guánica Bay.
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: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Tayvonna Licorish, 26, of Newport News was sentenced today to thirty-three months in prison for her part in the 2008 murder of Jonte Terry, in the K-mart parking lot located at Oriana Drive in Newport News.
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 Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-Mich.), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.), House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.), Senate Finance...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - David Karl Becker, 24, of Norfolk, Va., pleaded guilty today to theft of government property.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Plum Borough resident has been sentenced in federal court to 135 months in prison on her convictions of filing false tax returns, failing to file tax returns, and mail fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - A federal grand jury in Greeneville returned an indictment on Jan. 14, 2014 against Daniel Guy Bickley, 55, of Bristol, Va., for conspiracy to distribute and the distribution of controlled substance analogues as well as conspiracy to engage in monetary transactions in criminally derived property and engaging in such transactions.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: JOHNNY SMITH, age 43, a resident of Raceland, Louisiana, pleaded guilty as charged yesterday before U.S. District Judge Sarah S. Vance to the sexual exploitation of children and possessing images depicting the sexual victimization of children under the age of twelve-years-old, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on February 5, 2014, before U.S. District Judge Susan P. Watters, HOMAR RENOVA-CASTILLO, a 37 year-old resident of Tucson, Arizona, was sentenced to a term of.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: "Whooo is out there?" Owls have fascinated mankind for centuries, from the wise owl of the Greek goddess Athena to Winnie the Pooh's friend. To learn more about these creatures of the night, join rangers from Ozark National Scenic Riverways on an Owl Prowl. We'll learn fact and folklore about these little...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: A Brooklyn, Ohio, man was sentenced to three years in prison for his role in a conspiracy to steal copper from two dozen substations in Northeast Ohio owned by First Energy or Cleveland Public Power, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cleveland office.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement after Senate Republicans voted to block a fully-paid for extension of the emergency unemployment insurance program, leaving the measure one vote shy of the 60 required to receive an up-or-down vote for final passage...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Nadel and Gussman Rockies, L.L.C., doing business in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on Jan. 31, 2014, for negligent discharge of oil into waters of the United States. The company was ordered to pay a fine in the amount of $357,500.00; restitution in...
