News from June 2014

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Monday, June 23, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. On June 19, 2014, a Perry County, Illinois, man pled guilty to an indictment, charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 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 DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: For Prostituting Girlfriend, Who He Physically Abused.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen Brown announces that Kipp Luster was sentenced on June 19th in Federal Court after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute cocaine. Luster received a sentence of 70 months imprisonment, with 3 years of supervised release to follow.

By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: Dear Dr. Frieden: As members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee with jurisdiction over public health and biomedical research, we are writing with concerns and questions about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) recent report that approximately 75...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced David Wayne Sweet, Jr., age 24, of St. Leonard, Maryland today to 20 years in prison followed by supervised release for life for sexually exploiting a minor to produce child pornography. Judge Titus ordered that upon his release from...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U. S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a Dominican national who was extradited from Canada earlier this year, today admitted his role in one of the nation’s largest and longest-running stolen identity refund fraud schemes ever identified.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Robert.

By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: Catoctin Mountain Park News Release. June 23, 2014. Debra Mills. Official News Release. Catoctin Mountain Park Ranger Lindsey Donaldson Wins Regional Director's Award for Natural Resource Management. Catoctin Mountain Park Biologist Lindsey Donaldson has received the National Capital Region's Director's...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced William S. Gazafi, age 44, of Lusby, Maryland, today to 120 years in prison for six counts of sexually exploiting a minor to produce child pornography.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Monday, June 23, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. On June 19, 2014, Samuel S. Jacobs, a/k/a “Simple Sam," 40, of Steeleville, Illinois, was sentenced in United States District Court in Benton on a one-count indictment charging conspiracy...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: Cellular Next LLC Allegedly Participated in Drug Money Laundering.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee Peter DeFazio (D-Springfield) will hold a press conference at the House Triangle to discuss the trade of illegal ivory and other wildlife products and its connection to international crime rings and terrorist organizations today, Tuesday, June 24th at 11am EDT. DeFazio will be joined by groups fighting illegal poaching and wildlife trafficking.

By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: “Thank you M__ Speaker. I yield myself as much time as I may consume.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Sergio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: Defendant Overstated Value Of Hedge Fund By Approximately $80 Million.

By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: (San Francisco, CA: Seattle, WA) Representatives of the Seattle area’s historic schooner Adventuress, along with experts from the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park and the San Francisco Bar Pilots today will travel to Belmont, CA to receive a ship’s bell that went missing a century ago.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: On the evening of June 12th, a wildland fire was spotted in the vicinity of Lost Mine Peak in Big Bend National Park. Lightning is the presumed cause of the fire, which grew to a total of five acres.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - One of the leaders of a massive, international counterfeit goods conspiracy was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for his role in the scheme, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Twenty-two Springfield men were charged today in federal and state court with either distributing a controlled substance or unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition.