News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: Natchez, Miss - El Ranchito Corporation, of Tickfaw, LA, entered a guilty plea and was sentenced on Feb. 25, 2014 before U.S. Senior District Court Judge David C. Bramlette III for transporting adulterated meat, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis. El Ranchito Corporation was fined $6,000 dollars and placed on one year probation.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: Those receiving allocations from the disaster relief fund include: commercial fisheries in American Samoa following the tsunami of 2009; commercial fisheries in Mississippi following the Mississippi River flood of 2011; the New England multispecies groundfish fishery for the 2013 season; Alaska’s Chinook...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Manuel Francisco Gomez-Perales, a Mexican national who returned to the United States illegally to recover firearms previously acquired for another person knowing those firearms were destined for Mexico, has been sentenced to prison, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: KEYSTONE, SD: Mount Rushmore National Memorial will implement a prescribed burn to reduce accumulated slash piles in support of the park’s fire management plan. Due to the recent snowfall creating favorable conditions, burning will occur Wednesday through Saturday. The burn will begin at 9:00 am at middle marker behind the monument. Approximately 50 acres are within the prescription area.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: Anchorage - On Saturday, March 1, from 10:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m., the Bureau of Land Management’s Campbell Tract will host public viewing and the finish of the Anchorage route for the Iditarod Ceremonial Start for the 42nd Iditarod Sled Dog Race. The 730-acre tract is about 45 minutes by dog sled from where the mushers and their Idita-riders start in downtown Anchorage.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Maureen O’Mara, Special Agent in Charge, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Criminal Investigation Division, Atlanta Area Office, and Colonel Alan M. Dodd, U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers, announce that Richard...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging Benny Lee Freeman, 35, of Ravenna, Ohio, with being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition, and with possession with the intent to distribute marijuana, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) released a statement today following Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp’s recently announced tax reform plan that includes revenue dedicated to the Highway Trust Fund, to supplement the Trust Fund’s user fee revenues.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin today charged Carl Tomblin, 50, of Chapmanville, W.Va., with illegal drug distribution. According to an information filed in federal court today, Tomblin distributed oxymorphone, a powerful painkiller often sold under the brand name Opana.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Daniel Taylor, age 45, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 15 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Judge Quarles found that Taylor was an armed career criminal based on three previous convictions for first degree assault, unlawful manufacturing of drugs and possession with intent to distribute drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Henry Washington Yeh, age 32, of Vienna, Va., pleaded guilty today to filing false and fraudulent tax returns. Henry Yeh’s father, Jimmy An-Twig Yeh, age 57, and his mother Zhi Hua Wang Yeh, age 60, both of Vienna, Va., pleaded guilty to aiding the filing of false tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal grand jury in Puerto Rico has returned an indictment charging Carlos Barros-Villahermosa (47, Puerto Rico) with impersonating a federal employee and making false statements to federal agents. Barros-Villahermosa was...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of theft of government money, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - David Warren Evans, age 44, of Magna, Utah, convicted of a September 2013 armed robbery of a Wells Fargo Bank located at 1255 East Brickyard Road in Salt Lake City, will serve 84 months in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Tena Campbell imposed the sentence Wednesday afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that ANTHONIE R. SPARROW pled guilty for his role in perpetrating a $16...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) delivered the following statement on the House floor today on the Republican bill that would delay the IRS from developing new regulations concerning 501(c)(4) organizations...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: Mr. Chairman, this is our third hearing about conspiracies to steal from Social Security. In our first two hearings we heard what the Social Security Administration (SSA) did to stop the fraud. Their front-line employees noticed the suspicious pattern, their investigators followed up, and hundreds of people have been indicted.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement after Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) unveiled his tax reform proposal...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: MONTRÉAL - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents in Montréal assisted the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)'s Montréal Drug Section in the arrest of a Canadian national on charges of conspiracy to import and importing cocaine.
