News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: This afternoon, former El Paso County Judge Anthony Cobos and Lorenzo Hilario Aguilar were each sentenced to four years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for their roles in a “pay-to-play" scheme uncovered during the ongoing public corruption investigation in El Paso announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office today announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: Jackson, Miss. -- Robert Nikita Shegog, of Terry, Mississippi, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 22 months and 15 days imprisonment for bribery, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen. Shegog was also ordered to pay a $10,000.00 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that a federal grand jury, in Jacksonville, has returned an indictment against Samuel Franklin Crews (31, Lake City), charging him with three counts of receiving child pornography over the Internet. Crews faces...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: OTSEGO, N.Y. - Over the weekend, the Drug Enforcment Administration'(DEA) Albany District Office and the Otsego County Sheriff's Office Investigation Division effected two arrests in separate investigations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury was sentenced on Dec. 30, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, Jan. 3, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), announced that DAVID TAIMANGLO QUICHOCHO, JR. was sentenced today in the District Court of Guam to 37 months incarceration, and five years of supervised release. QUICHOCHO, JR’S wife, DOMINICA BATO QUICHOCHO, was also sentenced today to a two-year term of Probation which includes six months of home confinement and community service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced it is proposing a regulation that will clarify who, due to mental health reasons, is prohibited under federal law from receiving, possessing, shipping or transporting firearms. In addition to providing general guidance on the federal law, this clarification will ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: ROCKFORD - A former McHenry County Sheriff=s Deputy pleaded guilty today in federal court before U.S. District Court Judge Frederick J. Kapala to crossing a state line with intent to engage in a sexual act with a person who had not attained the age of 12 years. The defendant, GREGORY M. PYLE, 38, of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jeremiah Burns, 32, a member of the Jicarilla Apache Nation who resides in Dulce, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to an indictment charging him with involuntary manslaughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: DENVER -- Jana DeWitt and Kenneth Westfall, licensed real estate agents operating in Colorado Springs, have paid the United States $93,500 in civil penalties to settle allegations that they engaged in deceptive conduct that violated the Financial Institutions Reform Recovery and Enforcement Act (FIREEA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Ricky Timothy Wyatt, Jr., a.k.a. “Knuckles," 27, of Petersburg, Va., was sentenced today to 114 months’ in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release for charges of possession of firearms by a convicted felon and manufacturing counterfeit currency.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Stephen Gurule, 34, of Espanola, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to an indictment charging him with bank robbery.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
Release: Washington, DC, Jan. 2, 2014 - Agriculture Undersecretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services Kevin Concannon today announced that USDA is making permanent the current flexibility that allows schools to serve larger portions of lean protein and whole grains at mealtime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Homestead, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to federal drug trafficking charges, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By State Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, Jan. 3, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Cheryl Garcia, Acting Special Agent-in-Charge, U.S. Department of Labor - Office of Inspector General, Susan A. Hensley...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Charles Link, 53, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to nine years in prison on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon stemming from the stabbing of a man in Northwest Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: Defendant Fraudulently Obtained And Sold More Than 19,000 Items Originally Purchased For Over $30 Million.