News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jon C. Cooper, 64, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to an 18-month prison term for one count of tax evasion related to his failure to report over $448,000 in income that he received in 2006.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Kimihiko Makino was sentenced today to 20 years in prison, and ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution for aiding and abetting the advertising of child pornography for sale, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Clark E. Settles.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: United States vs. John J. O’Brien, et al.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) commended his Senate colleagues for confirming R. Gil Kerlikowske, President Obama’s nominee to be the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the Department of Homeland Security...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: Burn Scheduled for Hetch Hetchy Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Marietta Harris, 38, of Jackson, pled guilty on March 5, 2014 to conspiring to defraud the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis. She will be sentenced on May 15, 2014 by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate and faces a maximum penalty of ten years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - Steven Chen Yu, 40, of Allen, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to 51 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in July 2013 to an information charging wire fraud in connection with his attempt to embezzle approximately $1 million from his employer, Hudson...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Rep. George Miller (D-CA), senior Democrat on the House Education and Workforce Committee, released the following statement today in response to a new report from the Small...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: Washington - Under regulations of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA), Kaiser International LLC, operating in Northbrook, Ill., posted a $100,000 surety bond.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee Peter DeFazio (D-OR) issued the following statement after passage of the Republican “RAPID" Act, which will undermine key environmental protections and under the guise of infrastructure streamlining...
By State Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), passed H.Res. 499, as amended, a resolution introduced yesterday by Chairman Royce and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY), which condemns the violation of Ukrainian sovereignty and calls for sanctions on Russian officials, banks and other state agencies.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Richard Irizarry (45, Viera) with attempting to aid and abet the distribution of cocaine, possessing a firearm in furtherance of the drug distribution, and using a telephone to facilitate the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA KAN. - A federal jury today returned a verdict convicting a Junction City man of murdering a woman to keep her from giving information to federal law enforcement officers about his involvement in drug trafficking, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Brooklyn, N.Y., man admitted today in Trenton federal court to traveling to New Jersey in order to coerce a Jewish man to give his wife a religious divorce - referred to as a “get" - through threats of violence, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Pamela C. Marsh, United (US) Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announce the arrest of Perry, Florida, physician Eulogio Muncal Vizcarra, 71, yesterday on charges contained in a federal grand jury indictment. Vizcarra was charged with 49 counts of unlawfully dispensing, or causing the dispensing of controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: Company Targeted Developers In Areas Devastated By Hurricane Katrina.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Garfield M. Taylor, 55, of Rockville, Md., pled guilty today to a securities fraud charge stemming from operating a Ponzi scheme that resulted in investors losing approximately $25 million that they invested with Taylor and companies he controlled.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: Agriculture Deputy Under Secretary Doug O’Brien today announced that USDA is making nearly $60 million in payments to 195 producers to support the production of advanced biofuel.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced SALVADOR SERRANO PORTILLO, 45, a non-resident Honduran national, most recently of Clinton, NC, to 51 months imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release. PORTILLO was also ordered to pay $156,107 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Bakusa Dukuray, 38, of Gambia, who was convicted of misusing a passport and aggravated identity theft, was sentenced to 24 months in prison by U.S. District Court Chief Judge William M. Skretny. The defendant will be deported following the completion of his sentence.
