News from January 2014
By DOT News Wire | Jan 24, 2014
News Release: DOT Cautions Consumers on Super Bowl Air Travel Game Ticket Scams. Air travelers going to Super Bowl XLVIII this year should be aware that not all tour packages include a ticket to the Feb. 2 game in East Rutherford, N.J. Under U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) consumer protection rules, any ...
By DOT News Wire | Jan 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff today awarded approximately $886 million to help the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) continue rebuilding and replacing transportation equipment and facilities damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, which triggered the worst transit disaster in U.S. history. The announcement was made during a conference call with New York officials.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2014
News Release: COVINGTON, KY -A financial technician, employed in an office of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) located in Boone County, KY., was sentenced to 28 months in federal prison for unlawfully accessing an IRS computer to obtain personal information about taxpayers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Samih Abdel Rahman (51, Tampa) today pleaded guilty for his involvement in a money laundering conspiracy. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. -Abdullah Alnahas, 36, of Cranston, owner and operator of a Cranston convenience store and a Providence laundromat, faces up to 10 years in federal prison for his participation in a contraband cigarette conspiracy that allegedly brought more than six million contraband cigarettes valued at more than $1.2 million dollars into Rhode Island from Virginia, and which allegedly cheated Rhode Island out of more than $500,000 in tax stamp payments.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, Jan. 24, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Bridgeport returned an indictment yesterday charging ROBBIE ROSSI...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2014
News Release: DES MOINES, IA B United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt announced that nine individuals from the Des Moines, Iowa metro area have been sentenced on federal drug trafficking charges. Following the execution of multiple search and arrest warrants in December 2012, ten individuals were charged in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - David Kevin Lewis, the chairman and director of field operations of Always Consulting, Inc. (ACI), an oil and gas well promotions company with offices in Richardson, Texas, was sentenced this morning, by Chief U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater, to 30 years in federal prison and ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that IGOR TSIMERMAN and ROSTISLAV BELYANSKY (“SLAVA") were sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 24 and 18 months in prison, respectively, for conspiring to pay approximately $20,000 in bribes to New York...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2014
News Release: A Solon couple was indicted on nine counts of health care fraud for defrauding Medicaid out of approximately $750,000 by providing ambulette rides to patients who did not use or need wheelchairs, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, Miami-Dade County State Attorney, Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), Miami Field Office, Mark R. Trouville...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2014
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A federal jury sitting in McAllen has returned a guilty verdict against Miguel Angel Navarro, 36, of Hidalgo, on two counts of conspiracy to commit and committing hostage taking, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The verdict was returned following a four-day trial and less than four hours of deliberation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2014
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska-United States Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that an Anchorage man was sentenced in federal court to 37 months in prison for being a felon in possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2014
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A federal jury has convicted Jaime Homero Guerrero of conspiracy to possess and possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The jury returned its verdicts today following more than two days of testimony and approximately five hours of deliberation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2014
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford, Ill. man was sentenced today in federal court before U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala as the last of seven defendants to be sentenced on related drug trafficking charges. ANGELO TURNER, 30, was sentenced to 57 months in prison without parole, to be followed by 3 years of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that William Patrick “Pat" Clark, 40, of Worden, IL, the owner, operator, and president of Clark Trucking and Excavation, LLC, which was located at 912 Market Street in East St. Louis, Illinois, was...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2014
News Release: Death Valley, CA-Death Valley National Park and the Las Vegas Astronomical Society (LVAS) will co-host a stargazing opportunity on Friday, January 31st and Saturday, February 1st from 7:00 pm until 9:30 pm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH- A Pittsburgh man has been sentenced in federal court to 60 months in prison after pleading guilty to violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today. This term of imprisonment is to be followed by three years of federal supervised release. United States District Judge Cathy Bissoon imposed the sentence on Dorianne Harris, 20.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2014
News Release: After nearly 38 years of service, Joshua Tree National Park Superintendent Mark Butler has announced plans to retire effective March 1, 2014. A dedicated National Park Service (NPS) employee since 1976, Butler stated that "considering retirement has been one of the most challenging decisions of my career."...
