News from June 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - James Ronald Donahoo, II, age 36, of St. George, Utah, entered guilty pleas to wire fraud, money laundering, and failure to file a tax return in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City Thursday afternoon in connection with a scheme to defraud individuals and companies he recruited to invest in Paradigm Investing, Inc., a Utah corporation he exercised control over.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ----- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that former C.P.A. Joseph Glenn Folsom, Jr., age 61, of Camden, has been convicted of four counts of Interstate Transportation of Stolen Money, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2314, after a three-day trial in Columbia that concluded Wednesday. United States District Judge Joseph F. Anderson, Jr., of Columbia presided over the trial and will sentence Folsom at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Vincent L. Simmons, 48, of Porter, Texas, was sentenced and Carey Dale Reed, 40, of Conroe, Texas, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard T. Haik for participating in a scheme to steal tractors in Texas and sell them in Louisiana. Simmons was sentenced to 30 months in prison and three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - Two north Texas men have pleaded guilty in federal court in Dallas to their respective roles in a stolen refund identity fraud conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Theodore Olguin, 26, of Roswell, N.M., was sentenced in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 60 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By State Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the below statement, as prepared for delivery, at today’s hearing on developments in Ukraine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: EVANSVILLE - Joseph H. Hogsett, the United States Attorney, announced the indictments of three men involved in methamphetamine trafficking. Travis Adams, 32, of Mount Vernon, David Connor, 46, of Boonville, and Joseph Isbell, 31, of Dallas, Texas were indicted on one count each of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Adams was also indicted on one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: A resident of Detroit, Michigan, pleaded guilty today to her involvement in a conspiracy to file fraudulent tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service, United States Attorney Barbara McQuade announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Tyler M. Perkins, 25, Stratford, Wis., was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 63 months in federal prison for possessing firearms and ammunition as a felon. Perkins pleaded guilty to the charges on April 9, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Thursday, June 5, 2014. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. CINCINNATI -- A federal grand jury here has indicted James Jeremy Savage, 40, originally from Springfield, Ohio, charging him with 29 counts of filing false claims...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A board-certified pediatrician and internist from Morris County, N.J., was sentenced today to 20 months in prison for soliciting and taking cash and rental payments as kickbacks for his patients’ diagnostic testing referrals, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: HOMESTEAD, FLORIDA - Endangered Schaus' swallowtail butterflies are currently found only on a single island in Biscayne National Park. A collection and captive breeding operation, begun in 2012 in an effort to save the butterfly from extinction, has shown initial success. Over a thousand butterfly larvae were produced at the University of Florida. Larvae and adult butterflies are now being released into their natural habitat.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Chanten Keth L. Gauthreaux, 20, of Kinder, La., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Patricia Minaldi to participating in a home invasion at the Coushatta Tribal Reservation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, June 5, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M, Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: Thomas Silber, 50, of Yardley, PA, was charged today, by indictment with 10 counts of knowingly receiving, and attempting to receive, visual depictions, that is, DVD movies, depicting child pornography. According to the indictment, between February 2007 and October 2010, Silber received 10 DVD movies...
By State Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: Dear Foreign Secretary Kuribeña: I am writing to express my deep concern for U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, who was arrested at the Mexican border on March 31, 2014, and is currently being held in the El Hongo II prison in Tecate, Mexico. Mr. Tahmooressi inadvertently arrived at the Mexican border...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The owner of a Catholic-interest news and information website was arrested at his home in Bakersfield this morning charged with tax evasion, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. A federal grand jury brought the four-count indictment last week, and it was unsealed today after the arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Alton, Ill., business owner and his company pleaded guilty in federal court today to distributing more than $3 million worth of foreign Botox and Juvederm in the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden made the following statement after the Senate today confirmed Sylvia Mathews Burwell as Secretary of Health and Human Services...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Kay Hagan (D-NC) today introduced new legislation to protect servicemembers and veterans in response to the Justice Department’s recent settlement with Sallie Mae, a student lending corporation that violated federal law and charged servicemembers excessive...
