News from June 2014
By State Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the 70th anniversary of D-Day...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - An alleged general of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas gang (ABT) pleaded guilty today to racketeering charges related to his membership in the ABT’s criminal enterprise, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Richard A. Lazzara today sentenced Norman V. Charlton (50, Lakeland) to 7 years in federal prison on tax fraud charges. The Court also ordered the forfeiture of $14,952 in U.S. currency that was seized from his residence on March 21, 2012, and entered a forfeiture money judgment in the amount of $325,886, the traceable proceeds of the fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Curtis Drakes, aged 33, of Mitchell County, Georgia, was sentenced to serve 2 years in federal prison for conspiracy to provide contraband in prison by the Honorable W. Louis Sands, U.S. District Court Judge. The sentence was pronounced on June 5, 2014 in Albany, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: Led by Two Brothers and Their Sister; Other Family Members Also Involved.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - ROBERT PALMER and MARK DRIVER plead guilty late Thursday to defrauding numerous elderly victims of approximately $3,000,000, beginning in 2004 and continuing through 2010.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: South Bend, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III, announces that a federal jury found Matthew Steven Howard (26) guilty of attempting to persuade, induce and entice a person he believed to be 14 years of age to engage in illicit sexual conduct. Howard is facing a minimum sentence of 10 years, up to life in prison. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for September 9, 2014. He was remanded to the custody of the United States Marshals Service until his sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Michael A. Taschetta, 55, of Akron, New York, who was convicted of a felony charge of possession of child pornography, was sentenced to 60 months of incarceration with 5 years of supervised release by District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Kayla Renee Combs, 24, of Buffalo NY pleaded guilty before United States District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute cocaine base. The charge carries a maximum term of imprisonment of 40 years, a $5,000,000 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: SEATTLE - Ferdinand Clay, who was shot while fleeing from the robbery of a marijuana distributor was sentenced on June 6, 2014, in U.S. District court in Seattle to 12 years in prison. On Aug. 13, 2013, Clay, 32, and Melvin Charles Slaughter, 31, tied up and robbed Maple Valley marijuana dealer Jason...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: Hogsett announces sentence shows success of “Operation Community Watch".
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Adam Azerman, age 59, of Pikesville, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to traffic in contraband cigarettes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh man has been sentenced in federal court to 37 months imprisonment followed by five years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Pennsylvania woman affiliated with a Massachusetts-based broker dealer was arrested today on charges that she orchestrated a massive Ponzi scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced yesterday that Daniel Todd Manning (42, Jacksonville) has been indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with failing to register as sex offender, after traveling from the state of Missouri. He is also charged with the possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of June 9. The committee will vote on several bills in the energy and health sectors, continue its 21st Century Cures initiative with a discussion of incentives for drug and device development, examine media ownership as it continues to evolve, and discuss how the president’s health care law limits access to doctors and prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
News Release: Defendant was Shot and Critically Wounded While Fleeing from Marijuana Distributor in Maple Valley Neighborhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2014
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