News from June 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging four men with conspiring to commit bank robberies. Two of the four men are also charged with actual bank robbery. Laquan Ealey, 23, Abraham Osorio, 21, Luis Osorio, 24...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that John Ruth, 39, of and Michael Jachimiak, 37, both of Lancaster, N.Y., were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute a mixture and substance containing methamphetamine, conspiracy to manufacture...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), and Jose A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Wilkinsburg man pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- James Allen Hicks, 37, of Knoxville, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 97 months in prison by the Honorable Harry S. Mattice, Jr., U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee. The sentence was the result of a guilty plea entered by Hicks in February 2014 to a federal indictment...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today another conviction in the ongoing federal and state investigation into corruption at the Bureau of Auditing and Compliance Services for the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS). DCFS leadership has cooperated fully with the investigation and provided valuable assistance.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: The seventh annual John Colter Day will be held on Monday, June 23 at Colter Bay Visitor Center. Colter explored the greater Yellowstone area during the winter of 1807-08, and was likely the first European to travel the region. To highlight this historical figure, Grand Teton National Park will offer...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An Irvine man was found guilty today of running a fraud scheme that raised about $3.3 million from victims who thought they were investing in products that would treat childhood obesity and Type II diabetes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Norman Cipriano, 41, of Warwick, R.I., was sentenced on Thursday to 50 months in federal prison for trafficking more 14,500 counterfeit sports jerseys, clothing accessories, and health and beauty products valued at more than $1 million dollars, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha, Bruce M. Foucart, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and Warwick Police Chief Colonel Stephen M. McCartney.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - unsealed in federal court in Providence today allege that two Providence men, Kiplagatt Stewart, 43, and Allen D. Prout, 42, conspired to and participated in an armed Hobbs Act robbery home invasion in West Warwick in September 2012, during which approximately $14,000 in cash was stolen and one of the alleged intruders was shot.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: Current Research in the Park: The Great Circle Project at Hopewell Mound Group.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: YUBA CITY, Calif. - An ongoing investigation into an unemployment and disability benefits fraud scheme has led to the indictment and arrest of four Sutter County residents for their participation in the scheme and a superseding indictment bringing additional charges against others previously named as...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A New Jersey jewelry store owner who used his business to further one of the largest credit card fraud schemes ever charged by the Justice Department today became the 18th conspirator to admit his role in the scheme, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia, June 19, 2014- Nature is around every corner, especially in the Bluestone River Gorge. Now that summer is officially here, explore life and history with a park ranger on a guided hike along the Bluestone River onSaturday, June 21 from 10:00 am - 11:30 am. This leisurely, river-side...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ----- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Andrew Stephen Jackson, age 44, of Florence, South Carolina has entered a guilty plea in federal court in Florence, to possession of child pornography, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(5)(B) and (b)(2). United States...
By State Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: Dear Speaker Boehner: We are writing to request that Mr. Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, be granted the honor of addressing a Joint Meeting of Congress when he travels to Washington, D.C. this September. With more than 500 million people voting in the recent Indian election, it was both the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Linwood Barnhill, 48, a former officer with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), pled guilty today to two counts of pandering of a minor and one count of possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: OAKLAND - Charles S. Moore, was charged with 17 counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation and filing of false tax returns, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO) today announced the House of Representatives will vote next week on his bill, H.R. 6, the Domestic Prosperity and Global Freedom Act, which will help expedite approval of U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to our allies. Gardner also announced an amendment...
