News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that SANDRA ALLEN, a former New York City public school teacher and tutor for TestQuest, Inc (“TestQuest"), an educational services company that provided tutoring services to public school children as part of a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI -- District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez today sentenced Alvin L. Williams, Jr., former senator for the Legislature of the Virgin Islands, to 52 months in federal prison for racketeering, announced United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: (GREAT FALLS) A Browning man has been sentenced to prison following a guilty verdict in a September 2014 trial. Jordan James Lamott was sentenced to 32 months in prison followed by 3 years supervised release for strangling his girlfriend. This is the first case in the District of Montana that a defendant has been convicted at trial for strangulation in federal court since the inception of the statute. It is also one of the first such cases in the entire country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Aaron Young, 37, of Providence, an armed career criminal previously convicted and sentenced in state court on felony assault, robbery and drug trafficking charges, was sentenced today in federal court to 216 months in federal prison on federal drug trafficking and firearms charges, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Providence Police Chief Colonel Hugh T. Clements, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 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), and Paula Reid, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Secret Service, announce that defendant Ronald Walker, 36, of Fort Lauderdale...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, 35, a U.S. citizen and former resident of Colorado, was sentenced today to eight years in prison for one count of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. Ramirez, a co-defendant of Colleen LaRose, a/k/a “Jihad Jane," pleaded guilty to the charge on March...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senators John Thune (R-S.D.), Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) today expressed concern over a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Inspector General (IG) report finding insufficient oversight...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that yesterday in federal court, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced William Franklin Byford, III, 33, of Bunnlevel, North Carolina to 171 months imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release and CRISTOPHER DEAN GILBERT, 24, of Fayetteville, North Carolina to 181 months imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: GRAND JURY RETURNS INDICTMENTS. MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. PORT ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: Claimed Her Business Was Owned and Operated by a Service-Disabled Veteran.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia is joining the District of Columbia government and other partners to sponsor an upcoming forum for community and government leaders on diversity and criminal justice issues.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Jiles and Shannon Johnson, a husband and wife who owned the now closed KC Pit BBQ Restaurant in Sandy Springs, Ga., and Matthew Ware, the accountant for the restaurant, have been sentenced to federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: "True and effective reform of the Seattle Police Department will require steady work and strong leadership. Today Mayor Murray provided that leadership and charted a clear course for moving forward. I look forward to working with him and interim Chief Harry Bailey, and welcome their strong commitment...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-A federal grand jury in the District of Minnesota, sitting in Minneapolis, recently returned the following indictments. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation, and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. Any sentence is determined by a federal district judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Yanoysy Hernandez-Hernandez, age 35, of Spokane, Washington, Ernesto Morales, age 42, of Lawrenceville, Georgia, and Osmany Ruiz Lemas, age 43, of Spokane, Washington were sentenced for their involvement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Anthony Herrera, 23, of Artesia, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning in Las Cruces federal court to firearms charges under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, woman convicted of conspiracy to distribute marijuana was sentenced on January 6, 2014, by the Honorable Karen E. Schreier, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that Janice Ford Green of Marion, Alabama was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge William Steele to 78 months imprisonment for possession of a firearm by a felon. The judge ordered that Green...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: RHODE ISLAND PILL DEALER SENTENCED TO FEDERAL PRISON.
