News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former Springdale Borough police officer has been sentenced in federal court to one year and one day of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, on his conviction of deprivation of civil rights, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 16, 2014 - The House Natural Resources Committee today voted 26-14 to approve a to authorize the Chairman to issue subpoenas for the production of documents and to compel individuals to appear before the Committee on four specific matters within the Committee’s jurisdiction. They include.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Anthony Eugene Preissig (47, St. Johns County) with stealing counterfeit currency from the United States Secret Service (USSS), passing it at a gas station, and later making false statements about his crimes. If convicted on all counts, Preissig faces a maximum penalty of up to 35 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Sheila Cassata, 48, of Buffalo, N.Y., was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with bank robbery and accessory after the fact. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a $375,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - William Zimmerman, age 64, of Georgetown, Delaware, pled guilty today to Receipt of Child Pornography, in violation of federal law. Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced the guilty plea following a hearing in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced today that.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement on the retirement of former committee chairman Howard P. “Buck" McKeon (R-CA)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Three men working with the Texas Mexican Mafia (TMM) to distribute heroin and cocaine in the Corpus Christi area have been sentenced to federal prison, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Alejandro Guerrero, 39, of Corpus Christi, was found guilty of conspiracy to distribute heroin after a two-day jury trial in October 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Freeport, Ill. man pleaded guilty today in federal court before U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to a federal charge relating to his preparation of fraudulent federal income tax returns. The defendant, JASON BOOTH, 32, admitted that he conspired with others to defraud the United States Department of the Treasury by obtaining payments through fraudulent claims for individual income tax refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri announced that OZKAN SEMIZOGLU and SABAHADDIN AKMAN, both from Turkey, have been charged with obtaining unapproved, misbranded, adulterated and counterfeit cancer treatment prescription drugs from Turkey and other foreign countries and smuggling the drugs into the United States, including three shipments sent from Turkey to Chesterfield, Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. An Ottawa man was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in federal prison for trafficking in methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Hawthorne man who pleaded guilty in a murder-for-hire scheme targeting a man who was dating the daughter of his co-conspirator was sentenced today to seven years in federal prison.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA), Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT), and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) today highlighted a report released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that found seniors who had continuous health insurance coverage prior to enrolling in Medicare were associated with better health outcomes and reduced costs to Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: This morning, 52-year-old Albert G. Torres, the owner of G.O.T. Supply, Inc. was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his role in a scheme to defraud the City of El Paso with respect to garbage collection services announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Juan Marie Delvalle, 26, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to commit tax fraud in connection with a large nationwide tax refund scheme, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge David G. Larimer to 12 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $1,644,202 to the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -A federal grand jury returned a 20-count indictment today charging Manuel Ruiz, 47, of Sacramento, with making false claims for tax refunds on federal income tax returns.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: Studies conducted in an organic lettuce field managed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) indicate that there's more to sweet alyssum than just good looks. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) horticulturist Eric Brennan has identified ways to improve how the pretty white flowers control aphid pests that prey on lettuce leaves. ARS is USDA's chief intramural scientific research agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Yesterday a United States Magistrate Judge entered orders in two cases that require two men to pay $1000.00 fines and to abandon their firearms for attempting to board airplanes at the Albuquerque International Sunport in Albuquerque, N.M., with loaded firearms in their carry-on luggage.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - A federal jury in Memphis has convicted Keith Gibson, a/k/a “Greedy," 44, of Memphis, on four charges relating to child sex trafficking announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III, and Special Agent in Charge Todd McCall of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Memphis Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the arrest and charge by criminal complaint of John Dewey Todd (60, Fernandina Beach) for producing and attempting to produce child pornography. If convicted, he faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years, up to 30 years in federal prison.
