News from February 2014
By State Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, NJ - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued this statement regarding the release of detainees from the Parwan Detention Center in Afghanistan:
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard sentenced JOKWAN LAMAR HARVEY, 32, of Magnolia, to serve a total of 132 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, on charges of Aggravated...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A federal grand jury in Lubbock has returned a two-count indictment against the former Chief of the Rising Star Police Department. William Jason Kelcy, 41, is charged with one count of theft of government property and aiding and abetting and one count of theft of a machine gun and aiding...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: Superintendent F. Gus Sanchez is excited to announce that the restoration of the Nuestra Herencia (Our Heritage) mural is underway as part of Chamizal National Memorial's 50th Anniversary and National Park Service's Centennial Legacy projects.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - The former chief operating officer of a Woburn drug testing laboratory was sentenced yesterday for federal tax related crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that BORIS SHULMAN, a former sales representative of Mission Settlement Agency (“Mission"), pled guilty to fraud charges for his role in a multimillion-dollar scheme that victimized more than 1,200 debt-ridden...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- United States Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., announced that John P. Gizzi, 65, of Rochester, New York, who previously pled to filing false tax returns for 2008 and 2009, was sentenced today to 1 year of home confinement, 5 years of probation, and ordered to pay a $15,000 fine by United States District Judge Frank P. Geraci. Previously, a business that Gizzi owned, Rochester Business Machines Supplier, Inc., was sentenced to pay a fine of $500,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: South Bend, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - James P. Kleier pled guilty yesterday to two counts of failing to file income tax returns, United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: Four people from Cleveland were indicted for their roles in robbing a Euclid bank last month, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - On Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Gjavit Thaqi, one of the leaders of an international drug trafficking syndicate run by ethnic Albanians located in the United States, Canada and (the "syndicate"), and Robert Rudaj, a member of the syndicate, were sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Mexican national was sentenced in federal court today for his role in conspiracies to distribute a large quantity of methamphetamine and to illegally possess firearms.
By State Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, NJ - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and U.S. Sen. James Risch introduced a resolution “expressing concern for undemocratic governance and the abuse of individual rights in Ukraine."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on Feb. 12, 2014, before U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy, Joseph Thomas Obresley, was sentenced to 33 months imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release. Obresley was sentenced in connection with his October 8, 2013, guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: LEXINGTON, KY - A former information technology worker at the Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc., plant in Georgetown, KY., has been convicted of intentionally damaging the company’s computer systems.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: South Bend, IN-The United States Attorney's Office announced that a Grand Jury sitting in South Bend, Indiana, returned the following Indictments on Feb. 13, 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) issued the following statement after becoming chairman of the Senate Finance Committee...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Following last week’s announcement that CVS Caremark would begin removing tobacco products from its more than 7,600 U.S. stores, seven United States Senators today urged Walmart - the number one retailer of cigarettes in the country - to do the same, and stop selling tobacco products in its stores.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: MOBILE, AL-- United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown announced today that Corey Sanchez Howard, a Birmingham, Alabama area resident, and Rickel Powell, a Camden, Alabama resident, were sentenced today by Federal District Judge DuBose.
