News from June 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Michael Yedor and Paul Anderson have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that they participated in a long-running scheme to defraud Delta Air Lines of millions of dollars. Yedor was arrested in San Diego, Calif. on Saturday, June 21, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A South Carolina National Guard official pleaded guilty today in federal court to wire fraud and accepting bribes to steer freight contracts to an Alabama broker, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr. and Frank Robey, director of the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command's Major Procurement Fraud Unit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Keith J. Carr, 30, a member of Laguna Pueblo, pleaded guilty this afternoon to a federal indictment alleging a federal assault charge.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska:With the immediate mission to evacuate stranded visitors and employees completed, the National Park Service's task now turns to recovery, coordinating the work to repair the flood damage with the Alaska Department of Transportation (DOT), who has the jurisdictional responsibility for major repairs on that section of the Denali Park Road.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) released the following statement to mark one year since the U.S. Senate voted to pass the bipartisan Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act (S.744). The measure passed the Senate 68 to 32.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Lee’s Summit, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for cyberstalking one victim and possessing child pornography images of another victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that New York State Assemblywoman GABRIELA ROSA was charged with, and pled guilty to, two federal felony charges arising out of her efforts to obtain United States citizenship through fraud and fraudulently...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: Eminence, MO - Ozark National Scenic Riverways will host the annual FREEAlley Spring Independence Day Celebration on Saturday, July 5, 2014, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. as part of its continuing 50th Anniversary events. This event commemorates the traditional picnic celebrations that were held at Alley Spring around the turn of the twentieth century when this area was the social gathering place for local families.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: A federal grand jury in Nashville, Tenn. returned a 23-count indictment on June 25, 2014, charging 22 individuals with various offenses relating to a conspiracy to distribute large amounts of heroin and fentanyl in the Middle Tennessee area, Northern Alabama and St. Louis, Missouri, announced David Rivera...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that five defendants who were witnesses in the U.S. v. Mateo B. Sardoma, Jr. aka “Mat", Rudy P.H. Sablan, Maric C. Edrosa aka “Cristina", et al. trial were sentenced this week by Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood, as follows.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Jason Cole Votrobek and Roland Rafael Castellanos, owners of the “Atlanta Medical Group," have been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison, respectively. Both Votrobek and Castellanos were convicted on March 26, 2014, after a month-long jury trial on federal drug and money laundering charges for owning and operating a ‘pill mill’ pain clinic which served as a front for the mass distribution of addictive pain killers.
By State Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: Newark, NJ - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the below statement regarding the start of Ramadan:
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) today sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding that he appoint a Special Counsel to investigate the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) targeting of conservative groups.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis today signed a policy memorandum that directs superintendents nationwide to prohibit launching, landing, or operating unmanned aircraft on lands and waters administered by the National Park Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Dale Wray Fulford, 77, of Slaton, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 15 years in federal prison, following his guilty plea in March 2014 to one count of production of child pornography. The announcement was made today by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Bernabe Hernandez, aka Juan Hernandez Marin, aka Raul Hernandez, aka Bernabe Villa-Lobos, 54, of Arvin, was sentenced following his guilty plea on March 31, 2014, to one and a half years in prison and ordered to forfeit $178,179 to the United States. According to court documents, Hernandez...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement on the Highway Trust Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A federal grand jury in Nashville, Tenn. returned a 23-count indictment on June 25, 2014, charging 22 individuals with various offenses relating to a conspiracy to distribute large amounts of heroin and fentanyl in the Middle Tennessee area, Northern Alabama and St. Louis, Missouri, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A former resident of Lubbock, Texas, appeared today before U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings and pleaded guilty to a felony child pornography offense, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Thomas P. DiNapoli, the New York State Comptroller, today announced the filing and unsealing of a civil fraud lawsuit against CONTINUUM HEALTH PARTNERS, INC. (“CONTINUUM"), BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER d/b/a MOUNT SINAI...
