News from July 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Leyvis Taveras (35, Jacksonville) with identity theft, false representation of a social security number, and impersonating a federal employee. If convicted on all counts, Taveras faces a maximum penalty of 13 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Pacific and Atlantic (Shipmanagers), Inc. (“Pacific and Atlantic"), incorporated in the Marshall Islands with its main offices in Athens, Greece, was sentenced today to a $500,000 fine by United States District Court Judge Gregory M. Sleet for violating the Act To Prevent Pollution From Ships.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A former 32 year FBI employee and his wife pleaded guilty in federal court this afternoon to Bank Fraud, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, LA - A 52-year-old Shreveport, Louisiana attorney has been sentenced to federal prison in the Western District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales of the Eastern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, July 24, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. On July 24, 2014, Sherman L. Allen, Jr., a/k/a “Larue," 29, of Marion, Illinois, was sentenced on a federal firearm offense, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: The delivery of 9 kilos of crystal meth was orchestrated from inside a Massachusetts jail
By State Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee issued the following statement on the Netherlands’ proposal for an international protection force to secure the MH17 crash site and investigators. On Tuesday, Chairman Royce and Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY),...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - The Justice Department (DOJ) today announced it has signed a joint statement of principles with the City of Albuquerque, New Mexico, which reflects the good-faith intent of both sides to enter into a court-enforceable agreement to reform the Albuquerque Police Department (APD). The joint...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, July 24, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that a federal grand jury in East St. Louis, Illinois, returned an indictment on July 23...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: Doctor accused of illegally distributing prescription drugs to over 100 patients, leading to death of one patient and other nonfatal overdoses.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: * Four-Part Tax Amendment - Amendment 3612.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge John Antoon II today sentenced Ahmed Jibrell (37, St. Paul, Minnesota) to 8 years in federal prison for credit card fraud and identity theft. Jibrell is the seventeenth individual sentenced for his involvement in a nationwide conspiracy in which credit card numbers stolen from U.S. companies by international computer hackers were sold and used fraudulently in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A Dallas County, Texas, physician has been convicted of 15 counts of health care fraud violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: Fire Island, New York - Effective Aug. 1, 2014 - the National Park Service (NPS) will prohibit alcohol on federal lands located between the Town of Islip communities of Atlantique and Corneille Estates on Fire Island. The closure is due to visitor use impacts and is consistent with New York State and Town of Islip regulations enforced on adjacent town beaches.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska: Researchers from Massachusetts, Arkansas, and Alaska will conduct Denali National Park and Preserve's first invertebrate bioblitz, an intense period of biological surveying with the purpose of documenting as much biodiversity as possible.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: Today, the Committee takes a fresh look at Social Security Disability Insurance - a lifeline that keeps hard-working Americans afloat in the event of catastrophic illness or disability. Obviously, America’s workforce has changed dramatically since the program began, and SSDI has changed along with it.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced James Arwine, age 36, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to use a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The former president and chief executive officer of BizJet International Sales and Support Inc., a U.S.-based subsidiary of Lufthansa Technik AG with headquarters in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that provides aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul services, pleaded guilty today for his participation in a scheme to pay bribes to foreign government officials.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, Donnell Young, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and Scott Israel...
