News from June 2014
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: Aerial spraying of herbicide to control Canadathistle and leafy spurge in backcountry areas is expected to begin in TheodoreRoosevelt National Park on Wednesday, June 24.Spraying will continue for two to three days, weather permitting, or untilapproximately 700 acres have been treated. Spraying operations will take place onlyin the North Unit of the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Monte Glascoe, age 23, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to robbery and brandishing a gun in furtherance of robbery. Yesterday, co-defendant Gary Cordell Howard, age 37, also of Baltimore, pleaded guilty to the same offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO ― A Chicago man self-surrendered to law enforcement authorities today on federal charges alleging that he conspired with others to buy at least 43 firearms in Indiana and illegally transport those firearms to Chicago for sale. The new defendant, WINSTON GERALDS, allegedly conspired with previous defendant David Lewisbey and others in the interstate gun trafficking conspiracy.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Committee on Homeland Security Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) delivered the following opening statement for the full Committee hearing on Dangerous Passage: The Growing Problem of Unaccompanied Children Crossing the Border...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul announced today that Henry Hawkins, 45, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of a misdemeanor charge of being an accessory after the fact to a false statement under the Clean Air Act, was sentenced to one year probation by U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah J. McCarthy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Jose Samir Renteria-Cuero (51, Cali, Colombia), a/k/a “Jose Morfi," to 27 years in federal prison for conspiring with others to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine onboard a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Renteria-Cuero pleaded guilty on February 6, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Kelly Nicole Borger, 31, of Rochester, N.Y., and Los Angeles, CA, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer to conspiring to defraud the United States. The charge carries a maximum sentence 20 years in prison, a fine of $1,064,702, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Washington County man pled guilty on Monday to violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Pennsylvania man was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for misappropriating over 900 cellular telephones, handheld devices and accessories belonging to Verizon Wireless and selling those items online for a profit, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan today sentenced David Allen Dinsbeer (37, Jacksonville) to 33 months in federal prison for his role in defrauding Hickory Foods, a Jacksonville company. He was also sentenced to serve a 2-year term of supervision, following his incarceration...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Timothy Patrick Shanks, 39, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced this morning to 144 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on firearms charges. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, 2nd Judicial District Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: Contact: Public Information Officer. Number: (313) 234-4310. DETROIT - A former City of Detroit police officer was sentenced to prison today for leaking sensitive and confidential law enforcement information to a drug trafficker, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. McQuade...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: Today the Finance Committee turns its attention to the U.S. tax code, an anticompetitive, mindlessly-complicated tar pit that makes it harder to create good jobs, succeed in global markets, and nurture innovation. It is long past time to drain this swamp. Because the tax code is like an ecosystem, changes in one area almost always have big effects on others. That’s why tax reform must be comprehensive - it has to include both individual and business policies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: A South Euclid attorney was ordered to pay $523,253 in restitution and was sentenced to six months of home confinement for failing to report and pay employment taxes, said United States Attorney Steven M. Dettelbach and Kathy Enstrom, Special Agent in Charge of the IRS' Cincinnati Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Charles David Jones, Sr., age 58, of Frederick, today to a year and a day in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for theft of government property arising from his fraudulent receipt of disability benefits. Judge Quarles also ordered that Jones pay $110,000 in restitution.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: Washington Post Fact Checker: The letter that supposedly led to the crash of Lois Lerner’s hard drive. BY GLENN KESSLER June 24 at 6:00 AM. “The IRS is not a victim today. And here is fundamental problem. Chairman Camp sent a letter on this whole issue. And then 10 days later - so think about the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Brian K. Lee, 40, of Gulfport, pled guilty on June 24, 2014 to one count of mail fraud in connection with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today reiterated his call for the release of Naftali Frenkel, Eyal Yifrach, and Gilad Shaar, three Israeli teens who were kidnapped on June 12th. At an event today on Capitol Hill, Rep.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - Moises Alberto Yanez, 40, of Tulsa, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Claire V. Eagan on Friday, to serve 240 months in prison for conspiracy to commit money laundering, announced United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. and R. Damon Rowe, Special Agent in Charge of Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced the filing yesterday of a criminal charge against Jalani Kornegay, age 33, of New York, New York. A Criminal Information filed in the United States District Court alleges that Kornegay distributed cocaine in Luzerne County on May 18, 2013.
