News from July 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today issued the following statement regarding the Finance Committee hearing on the role of trade and technology in 21st century manufacturing...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: Several of Glacier National Park’s high elevation hikes are open to the public, but snow and snow hazards remain in many areas. Visitors planning to hike are encouraged to be mindful of their hiking skills and comfort levels, and to prepare accordingly.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Donnell Young, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: Boston - A former Florida resident who defrauded victims across the country, including in Massachusetts, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Boston yesterday for his role in an advance-fee scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Jamie Gene Thompson, 47, a California native who most recently lived in Vermont, was sentenced on July 15, 2014 in United States District Court in Brattleboro to 30 months of imprisonment upon his guilty plea to a charge...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Christopher Richard Cloonan (44, Jacksonville) yesterday pleaded guilty to using a minor child to produce images depicting child pornography. Cloonan is a registered child sex offender. He was convicted of two counts of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former senior executive of a subsidiary of Alstom SA, the French power and transportation company, pleaded guilty today for his participation in a scheme to pay bribes to foreign government officials.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment today against Manuel Riviera-Felix, a.k.a. Felipe Garcia, 26, Edi Vega Bustamante, 21, and Juan Angel Lopez, 32, charging all three with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Riviera-Felix...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce that Gregory Fusca, 46, of Palm Beach Gardens, was sentenced to 170 months in prison, in connection with his operation of RC Innovations, Inc. (RCI), a fraudulent timeshare company located in Palm Beach County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jose Juan Albertorio-Garcia, 45, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg. The indictment charges Garcia with Possession of a Firearm in furtherance of Drug Trafficking and five counts of Possession With Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: POINT MARION, PA - The National Park Service and Friendship Hill Association will host Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Albert Gallatin and President Thomas Jefferson at the Second Annual Albert Gallatin Project. The theme for the weekend at Friendship Hill National Historic Site is Expansion and a New Peace. Programs and activities throughout the weekend will feature Albert Gallatin and President Thomas Jefferson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Kenneth Narzikul, 59, of Media, PA was charged today by information with major fraud against the United States, obstruction of audit, and making false claims to the government, in connection with operation of his business, NP Precision, Inc., a machine tool business located in Folcroft PA.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that Ronald Charles Waters (65, Lake City) pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography. Waters faces up to 10 years in federal prison and a potential life term of supervision. Waters was arrested on Nov. 20, 2013 in Lake City. He has been in the custody of the United States Marshals Service since that time.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that KENNETH TODD PUCKETT, age 40, of Garland, Texas, was sentenced to 70 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(C).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: Robert Eugene Revay, 79, of Oakland Park, Florida, was sentenced to serve 15 years in prison for conspiring to produce child pornography and for possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. announced today a guilty plea by a Tulsa man for distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: Performed and Interpreted X-rays and Other Tests in Lieu of Qualified Physicians and Radiologists, in Scheme Involving Over $2.5 Million in Medicare Losses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce that William Potts, Jr., a/k/a William Freeman, a/k/a Lieutenant Spartacus, 57, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison on charges of kidnapping. Potts is eligible for parole after he serves one third of his 20-year sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Derrick Yancey, 27, of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara, to Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations Conspiracy (RICO Conspiracy). The charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that three Beckley area men were sentenced in federal court in Beckley. Melvin Brooks, age 42, of Beaver, West Virginia, was sentenced to 24 months’ imprisonment. Brooks previously pled guilty in March 2014 to distribution of a quantity of oxycodone to a person cooperating with law enforcement authorities. The drug deal took place on Beaver Avenue in Beckley.
