News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: Defendant Was on the Lam for Nearly Two Years.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced that Chiefland Hardware and Farm Supply, Chiefland, Fla., has paid $525 to settle alleged violations of the Federal Seed Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Thomas Caul, Special Agent in Charge, Social Security Administration (SSA), Office of Inspector General, Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and José A.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) made the following statement regarding today’s report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that early results from Accountable Care Organizations showed savings of more than $380 million...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A task force of federal, state, and local law enforcement have begun arresting 32 defendants charged with RICO and immigration violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales and Brian M. Moskowitz, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Houston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Stolen Firearm was sentenced on Jan. 27, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated today that Brent McDonald, 60, of Burlington, Vermont, was sentenced on Jan. 30, 2014, in United States District Court in Brattleboro, Vermont, to serve 151-months imprisonment and a three-year term of supervised release following...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Stacia Larrea Greene, 29, of Clarkston, Washington, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for distribution of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wend J. Olson announced. U.S. District Court Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Greene to pay a $3,000 fine and forfeit $5,000 in United States currency. She pleaded guilty to the charge on Nov. 12, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging two people with robbing the Chase Bank at 4100 East Lake Road, Sheffield Lake, Ohio, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Gomer Thomas Williams, 54, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by information with one count of wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud clients of the legal firm where he worked. Williams was an attorney and associate with the Philadelphia law firm, Spector Gadon & Rosen (“Spector").
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Attempted Trafficking with Respect to Involuntary Servitude and Forced Labor was sentenced on Jan. 27, 2014, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on Jan. 29, 2014 it filed a motion in United States District Court in Scranton seeking a hearing regarding the modification of the plea agreement between the government and Mericle and to determine whether the defendant has breached the plea agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Christopher A. Crofts announced today that Gillette, Wyoming resident JONATHAN EARL OLAVESON has been convicted in federal court. A jury found Olaveson guilty of attempted online enticement of a minor for sexual purposes after a two-day jury trial in the U.S. District Court in Casper. Olaveson is scheduled to be sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Skavdahl on April 10, 2014.
By State Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that on Wednesday, February 5 the Committee will hold a hearing to examine al-Qaeda’s resurgence in Iraq and its threat to regional and global security. The hearing entitled, “Al-Qaeda’s Resurgence in Iraq: A Threat to U.S. Interests" will begin at 10:00 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. COLUMBUS - Federal agents arrested Albert Nassar, 58, of New York City on January 28 based on a federal indictment from Cincinnati charging him with conspiracy...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee today announced that another bipartisan, HELP Committee-led bill passed the Senate. The bill supports and improves critical programs to identify, diagnose, and treat medical...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Guatemalan national was sentenced in federal court today for aggravated identity theft in connection to a conspiracy to provide false identity documents so that more than 100 illegal immigrants...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced that Farmers Ag Center, Mountain Grove, Mo., has paid $1,100 to settle alleged violations of the Federal Seed Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted David DiPaolo, age 31, of Bristow, Virginia, on charges of voluntary manslaughter in connection with the death of a person in Carderock, an area within the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park. The indictment was returned on January...
