News from June 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: Washington D.C.-Emails from Lois Lerner in 2011 have been provided to Congress by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) showing that her hard drive crashed for technological reasons relating to corrupted hard drive sectors, that she sought assistance from IT employees-including forensic lab technicians-but...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Jung Kim, age 52, of Ellicott City, Maryland, to 20 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, for food stamp and wire fraud in connection with a scheme to illegally redeem food stamp benefits in exchange for cash. Judge Russell also entered an order that Kim forfeit $95,453.50 and pay restitution of $205,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney James Santelle announced today that after a four-day trial, a federal jury in the Eastern District of Wisconsin found Christopher A. Seifer (age 43) of Westfield, WI guilty yesterday of fraudulently obtaining reimbursement payments from the Department of Labor’s Office of Workers' Compensation Program for medically related travel.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Lawrence man pleaded guilty Friday to a federal marijuana trafficking charge, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ----- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that MICHAEL JUAN SMITH, a/k/a “Flame," a/k/a “Junior," age 21, of Columbia, South Carolina was sentenced to 120 months (10 years) imprisonment today in federal court. Following the term of imprisonment, SMITH will be on...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Paul R. Pinet (67, Tampa) yesterday pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States and to making false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements. Pinet faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison on the conspiracy charge. Barry Fitzgerald (62, Lakeland) pleaded guilty to the same charge in a related case on May 15, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - Travis Fox, age 36, and Jason Forbess, age 36, both of Atoka, TN, have been charged in a two count indictment with manufacturing and distributing synthetic drugs and employing minors to distribute synthetic drugs, announced Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee and 25th District Attorney General Mike Dunavant.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Todd D. Mitnick, 36, a former background investigator who did work under contract for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), pled guilty today to a charge stemming from his falsification of work on background investigations of federal employees and contractors, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Patrick E. McFarland, Inspector General for the Office of Personnel Management.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Michael Gaskin, age 33, of Rockville, Maryland, today to 78 months in prison, followed by 15 years of supervised release, for distribution of child pornography. Judge Grimm ordered that upon his release from prison, Gaskin must register as a sex offender in the place where he resides, where he is an employee, and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the arrest of Franklin C. Barnes (48, Winter Haven) on a federal complaint charging him with theft of mail and government property in the form of U.S. Treasury checks. Barnes made his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas G. Wilson today, in Tampa, and was released on a $25,000 personal surety bond.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: Dear Mr. Helmsley: . As the Ranking Member and a senior member of the Senate Committee on Finance (Committee), it is our responsibility to conduct oversight of the Department of Health Human Services (HHS), including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the implementation of provisions...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: The public is invited to a special presentation about the Great Lakes on Sunday, June 29, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore’s Philip A. Hart Visitor Center in Empire, Michigan. Please join Cameron Davis in the epicenter of all Great Lakes legends and stories, Sleeping Bear Dunes...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 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 DOE Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today thanked her colleagues in the Senate for unanimously agreeing to pass legislation to improve and extend programs in U.S.-affiliated islands, the Omnibus Territories Act of 2013 (S. 1237).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of Texas, and the FBI Dallas Division announced that Brice Johnson, 19, of Springtown, Texas, pleaded guilty today in federal court to kidnapping a young gay man after inviting the victim to his home and brutally assaulting him.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - According to new numbers released today by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), total sales of fossil fuels from energy production on federal and Indian lands decreased by 7 percent last year. This is latest example of how the Obama Administration continues to block American energy production on federal lands and waters.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Ryan Smolinski, 26, and Lowell Carey, 53, both of Buffalo N.Y., were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with maliciously damaging or destroying, or attempting to damage or destroy, by means of fire or an explosive, any building...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: A Cleveland man was sentenced to 35 years in prison for setting the May 2005 fire that killed nine people, said United States Attorney Steven M. Dettelbach.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: Friday, June 20, 2014, 9:00 am -Search efforts to locate a missing hiker on the Owyhigh Lakes Trail continue today. In an unrelated incident, an injured climber was air lifted off Double Peak near Eastside Trail on Thursday, June 19th.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jerese Blue, 27, and Chellsie Blue, 24, both of Rochester, N.Y., who were convicted of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. Chellsie Blue was sentenced to 72 months in prison and five years supervised release. Jerese Blue was sentenced to 108 months in prison and five years supervised release.
