News from July 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: Two Additional Tyrannosaurus Skeletons, Oviraptors, Egg Nest Highlight Historic Repatriation.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: Effective Friday, July 11, the Bureau of Land Management Gila District, all districts of the Coronado National Forest, Saguaro National Park, Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Coronado NationalMemorial, Chiricahua National Monument, Fort Bowie National Historic Site, Tumacácori National Historical...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: Lottery Fraud Scheme Targeted Elderly Victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: Alvis Porter admits to paying kickbacks; pleads guilty to tax crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former pharmacist in charge of West Orange Pharmacy was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for illegally distributing hundreds of tablets of oxycontin in exchange for thousands of dollars in cash, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: OAKLAND - Frank Eugene Gemignani, III, was charged by a grand jury on June 19, 2014, with 11 counts of failure to pay employment taxes and one count of filing a false tax return, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) released the following statement today regarding the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) decision to hire a firm accused of fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Michael Debardlabon, 31, and Maria English, 25, both of Rochester, N.Y., were charged by criminal complaint with aggravated identity theft, bank fraud and access device fraud. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: Boston - A Florida man was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Boston today for his role in an advance-fee scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, July 10, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on July 9, 2014, Frederick C. Addison, 32, was sentenced in federal district court...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: - Foundation Chairman laundered money through his wife’s business.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The federal court jury trial of Wissam Khalil, 41, of Central Falls, R.I., and his brother Bassam Khalil, 49, formerly of Pawtucket, R.I., was halted Thursday when the two men pleaded guilty to their roles in a complex interstate contraband cigarette trafficking conspiracy that brought more than six million contraband cigarettes into Rhode Island from Virginia, and which cheated Rhode Island out of nearly $1.1 million dollars in tax stamp payments.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee Chairman Lou Barletta (R-PA) will host a Subcommittee roundtable policy discussion next week to examine the General Services Administration’s (GSA) leasing program and opportunities to take advantage of the current real estate market and reduce costs to the taxpayer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas man is in federal custody after law enforcement executed a search warrant at his residence and found him in possession of prepubescent child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - A computer repairman from Dallas was sentenced this morning following his guilty plea in January 2013 to a felony child pornography offense, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich yesterday sentenced Joseph Daniele (42, Tampa) to 10 years and 1 month in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. As part of his sentence, the court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $7,469,739.00. Daniele pleaded guilty on May 29, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: An indictment was filed charging Travis Devon Nettles, age 25, of Toledo, with with possessing a firearm despite a previous felony conviction, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh-area resident pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and crack cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Ann Marie Laurini, 48, of Fairport, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci to making false statements to Special Agents of the Internal Revenue Service. The charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Advanced Power & Lighting (“APL") and two of the company’s former officers and/or employees, Richard Lee Robertson and Greg Piccione, have agreed to pay a total of $780,000 to settle allegations that they deliberately underpaid workers on several federally funded projects covered by the Davis-Bacon Act, and then violated the False Claims Act by submitting false and fictitious payroll records to conceal their conduct.
