News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: Johnny W. Hetterscheidt, 37, of Junction, Illinois, pled guilty on Feb. 13, 2014, in United States District Court in Benton to an indictment charging him with unlawfully possessing pseudoephedrine with the intent that it be used to manufacture methamphetamine, announced Stephen R. Wigginton, United...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: Earlier today at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Akbar Ahmad Sherzai, an independent contractor for a trucking company operating in Afghanistan that was responsible for delivering fuel to U.S. Army installations, pleaded guilty to his role in offering a U.S. Army serviceman $54,000 in bribes to falsify...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: An Omaha, Nebraska, man was convicted by a federal jury on Feb. 13, 2014, after a three and one-half day trial in federal court in Sioux City.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Keith Johnson, 46, and his wife, Angela Johnson, 45, of Maryville, Tenn., were sentenced today for conspiring to commit wire fraud. Keith Johnson was sentenced to 30 months in prison, and Angela Johnson was sentenced to serve six months in prison, to be followed by six months of house arrest. Both defendants also were sentenced to two years of supervised release and ordered to forfeit $2,034,684 to the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah today posted the list of parcels proposed for auction at the May 20, 2014, oil and gas lease sale in Salt Lake City. The proposed list contains 102,727 acres comprised of 96 parcels in the Richfield, Moab and Monticello Field Offices.The proposed list includes...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for First Degree Burglary, Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, Use of a Firearm During a Crime of Violence, and Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Irene Tamika Smith, a former professional tax-return preparer, was sentenced yesterday to serve 33 months in prison for conspiring with her co-workers to defraud the United States by filing false tax returns in order to receive fraudulently-inflated refunds for clients, Assistant Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: Gjavit Thaqi Led An Organization That Imported Thousands Of Pounds Of Marijuana From Canada And Mexico, Distributed Large Quantities Of Oxycodone, And Conspired To Import Hundreds Of Kilograms Of Cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Christopher F. Venti has been arrested on a Criminal Complaint charging him with wire fraud in connection with his involvement in various investment schemes. Wire fraud carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: DENVER -- Colorado U.S. Attorney John Walsh issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: Impoverished Taxpayers Were Recruited to. Allow Their Names and SSNs to be Used in Filing Fraudulent Returns. DALLAS - All six defendants convicted for their respective roles in a tax refund scheme involving the misuse of the First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit, have now been sentenced, announced U.S. Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: "Cash businesses such as marijuana distribution can be a magnet for criminal violence. Today's guidance seeks to mitigate the public safety concerns created by high volume cash based businesses without access to the banking and financial systems. The guidance also seeks to prevent criminal organizations...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Shaun Andrew Copenhaver (28, Jacksonville) was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday on three counts of receiving child pornography over the Internet. He faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 5 years, up to 20 years...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: The Resurrection Bay Conservation Alliance (RBCA) has been removing marine debris from the beaches around Seward, Kenai Fjords National Park, and even Prince William Sound for more than a decade. A new video gives their volunteers, many of whom have been on multiple beach cleanups, a chance to express...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - United States Attorney Pamela C. Marsh announced that Albert Hendrik “Henk" Van Der Merwe, 46, of Crawfordville, Florida, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Robert Hinkle to serve 12 months in prison for importing merchandise under false invoice and for receiving ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - William “Geri" Eaton, 60, was sentenced to 27 months in prison for tax evasion and for making false statements in a matter involving a health care benefit program.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A North Dartmouth male pleaded guilty yesterday to filing a false tax return in 2007 that grossly under-reported his income.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: Three people from the Greater Cleveland area were convicted for their roles in a $1.4 million fraud conspiracy involving property in North Carolina, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland office and Kathy Enstrom, Special Agent in Charge, IRS-Criminal Investigation, Cincinnati Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Jose Vasquez Selio Jr., 23, of Houston, has been ordered to prison following his involvement in a bank robbery conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Selio pleaded guilty to the conspiracy as well as one count of bank robbery Sept. 24, 2013.
