News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement regarding Rep. George Miller’s announcement that he will retire at the end of this term...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen Brown announces that Paul Williams was sentenced Friday in Federal Court after pleading guilty to Possession with Intent to Distribute Marihuana. Williams received a sentence of 24 months imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Anthony Ighodaro, 32, of Toronto, Ontario, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Richard J. Arcara to the importion of ecstasy pills containing both 3,4 Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, and N Benzylpiperazine [BZP] into the United States from Canada. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a $1,000,000 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, today announced that the United States has entered into a settlement with the City of New York in the case of Ohlmeyer ex rel. United States of America v. City of New York, a whistleblower action brought pursuant to the qui...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following statement on the latest enrollment numbers released by HHS. The data show that nearly 2.2 million people have selected a health insurance plan through the state and federal marketplaces...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: Start the new year with a visit to a North Dakota national park.Theodore Roosevelt National Park will waive entrance and camping fees for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on January 20.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that a Federal Grand Jury in Greenville, South Carolina, returned Indictment(s) against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: Defendant Destroyed Computer Evidence Before Leaving the U.S. to Join the Foreign Terrorist Organization al-Shabaab in Somalia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Olasunkanmi Shittu, 42, has been sentenced to a total of 84 months in federal prison for his role in a bank fraud and mail fraud scheme that defrauded approximately 25 victims, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Shittu pleaded guilty Oct. 15, 2013, to one count each of conspiracy to commit bank and mail fraud, four counts of mail fraud and rwo counts of aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Michigan collected $5,545,164.37 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2013. Of this amount, $3,193,153.56 was collected as fines, penalties, and restitution...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that on Jan. 10, 2014, Bradley Tolbert was sentenced to 5 years of Probation by Chief Judge William H. Steele on his conviction of filing a false claim with GCCF. The defendant was ordered to pay full restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: MOBILE, AL-- United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown announces that Henry Earl Young was sentenced to seven years imprisonment on Friday by United States District Court Judge Kristi D. DuBose, for use of a weapon in furtherance of a crime of violence (bank robbery) in violation of Title 18 USC '924(c).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: OAKLAND - Denise LaShawn Reed, also known as Brooke Nicholson, Lauren Roberts, Denise Berry, Savana Jones, and Neyce Roberts, was sentenced yesterday to 27 months for her role in a false tax refund scheme, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Florida: Everglades National Park is proud to present, "Eyes of Everglades" by Cynthia L. Diaz at the Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center Gallery during the month of January. An artist’s reception will be held Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014, from 12:00 noon to 3:00 p.m. Admission is free.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Dodge City gang member was sentenced Monday to 10 years for conspiring to attempt to kill a rival gang member, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Roland Leroy Raymond was sentenced today to three years in prison, and ordered to pay $852,000 in restitution for embezzling approximately $850,000 from the Yurok Indian Tribe of Northern California, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson, and Department of Interior Office of Inspector General, Western Investigations Office, Special Agent in Charge Jack Rohmer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced today Brunel Constant, a/k/a “Jamal", 34, of Lewiston, Maine was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge Nancy Torresen on Friday to 74 months in prison and three years of supervised release for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Constant was convicted of the charge on May 21, 2013, following a two day jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ga. - Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Robert Cedrick Baker III, age 37, of Gainesville, Florida, was sentenced to serve 75 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute heroin and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Hugh Lawson, United States District Court Judge, in Valdosta, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz announced today that she has appointed Assistant United States Attorney Fred Wyshak as the Chief of her Public Corruption and Special Investigations Unit. Mr. Wyshak replaces former Assistant United States Attorney Brian Kelly who left the office at the end of last year.
