News from June 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On June 4, 2014, Ronald T. Wolfenbarger, 46, of Knoxville, Tenn., pleaded guilty to a one-count information charging him with theft of government funds. Sentencing for is set for 10:00 a.m. Oct. 6, 2014. He faces up to 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, and up to three years of supervised release upon their release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced today that charges in two unrelated cases were brought yesterday against the following persons by a federal grand jury in Scranton.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: Defendant Victor Gordon Acquired And Attempted To Sell Approximately One Ton Of Elephant Ivory.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Kansas City, Mo., resident pleaded guilty in federal court today to charges related to producing child pornography. Paul Leslie Kannarr, 59, formerly of Kansas...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney Kenyen Brown announces that Jermaine Dickinson, a 30 year old resident of Mobile, was sentenced today. Mr. Dickinson pled guilty on March 5, 2014, to possession of 31 grams of crack cocaine with the intent to distribute it.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - JOEY D. WOOD was indicted for allegedly filing six false tax returns for himself and three others claiming refunds totaling over $27,000 for tax years 2011 and 2012.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Sierra Club will host a special military families' and veterans' recreation adventure at the Meadowood Special Recreation Management Area (SRMA), Lorton, Va., on June 21, 2014, from 7:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. This special event is made possible by a national agreement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John Dalrymple, Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), announced today that the United States filed a civil injunction complaint in Manhattan federal court alleging that...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Wednesday, June 4, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on June 4, 2014, Daris A. Quinn, a/k/a “DQ," 26, Belleville, IL, pled guilty to...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: Effective Thursday, June 5, the Bureau of Land Management Gila District, all districts of theCoronado National Forest, Saguaro National Park, Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Coronado National Memorial, Chiricahua National Monument, Fort Bowie National Historic Site, Tumacácori National Historical...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: KENDALL O. MARQUAR, age 36, a resident of Waveland, Mississippi, pled guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Sally Shushan to the one-count Bill of Information charging him with willfully failing to file taxes, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Demetrius Pullins, who has been convicted multiple times for illegal possession of both firearms and drugs, has been sentenced to 21 years and ten months.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On May 19, 2014, a one-count information was filed in U.S. District Court in Knoxville, charging Kathy Ann Winters, 58, of Harriman, Tenn., with wilfully and knowingly embezzling more than $1,000 from the U.S. Department of Education. On June 4, 2014, Winters appeared in U.S. District Court and pleaded guilty to the charges in the information. Sentencing has been set for 1:30 p.m., Oct. 7, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that GREGG PIERLEONI pleaded guilty to fraud and tax evasion charges arising from his embezzlement of more than $5.7 million from his employer. PIERLEONI pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud and one count of tax evasion today in White Plains federal court before U.S. District Judge Vincent L. Briccetti, who set a sentencing date for Sept. 18, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: Ohio man sentenced to prison for operating a fictitious investment company which bilked over $650,000 from investors.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), led 41 Senators in a letter to President Obama, asking him to withdraw the Administration's massive rule to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) today wrote to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler seeking an update on the agency’s workload and backlog of issues that are currently pending before the commission.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Junior Jean Merilia, 33, of Miami, Florida, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Columbia, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court for illegally possessing a firearm that he used to threaten another person.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A man and woman have pleaded guilty to racketeering violations in connection with an employment referral conspiracy in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales and Brian M. Moskowitz, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Houston today.
