News from March 2014

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina Thomas G. Walker and North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper announced jointly that Duke University Health System, Inc. (Duke University Health System) has agreed to pay $1 million to resolve allegations under the U.S. and...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced today that the lead defendants in an eighteen (18) defendant indictment who were charged with various drug-trafficking and money laundering offenses have been sentenced to lengthy prison sentences by the Honorable Rudolph T. Randa.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced today that James B. Haugh, 57, of Grand Island, Nebraska, was sentenced on March 21, in Lincoln, Nebraska, to seven and a half years in prison by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard, for receipt and distribution of child pornography. After his...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO ― A Cook County official was sentenced today to 51 months in federal prison for steering four county contracts, each just under $25,000, to four acquaintances and then taking a portion of the contract payments as kickbacks from each of them, totaling $34,700. The defendant, EUGENE MULLINS, who...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, Montana, on March 18, 2014, before U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris, BRANDY LEE SALWAY, 23, of Browning, was sentenced to a term of 36 months imprisonment, three years supervised release, and a special assessment of $100.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jewell Wiggins, 46, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and possessing a firearm while being a convicted felon, was sentenced to 188 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: PLEAS (before District Judge Roger B. Cosbey:).

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - Christian James Gieseke, 39, was sentenced yesterday, by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle, to 20 years in federal prison to be followed by a 10-year term of supervised release. Less than a week prior to the start of his trial last summer, Gieseke pleaded guilty to one count of receipt of child pornography. U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas made the announcement today.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah West Desert District is seeking public comment on two environmental assessments (EA) analyzing the BLM's proposal to offer a total of 66,673 acres comprised of 35 parcels at the August 2014 oil and gas lease sale. The Salt Lake Field Office proposes to offer 64,610...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, March 21, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Levi M. Glick, 28, of Princeton, Indiana, pled guilty today in United States District Court in Benton to an indictment charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A woman and two men from Camden were charged today for their alleged participation in a scheme in which they stole business checks from the U.S. Mail in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, altered them, and cashed them using a series of conspirators, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

By DOL Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), one of the authors of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), today applauded the news from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that thousands of Iowa Medicare beneficiaries, including seniors and people with disabilities, have collectively saved...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: MOBILE, AL-- The United States Attorney, Kenyen R. Brown, announces that Tony Lee Collier was sentenced to forty one months imprisonment yesterday by United States District Court Judge William H. Steele, after pleading guilty to possession of pseudoephedrine with the intent to manufacture methamphetamine...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - In light of reports that Justice Department investigators have interviewed former IRS Exempt Organizations Director Lois Lerner, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) yesterday requested...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Saxton, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of theft of firearms and interstate transportation of stolen firearms, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, March 21, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. On March 20, 2014, Sherman L. Allen, Jr., a/k/a “Larue," 29, of Marion, Ill., pled guilty to a one-count indictment charging Possession of a Firearm by a Felon, the United States Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, March 21, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. A resident of Panama, who was living illegally in the United States, in Glen Carbon, Illinois, was sentenced on March 21, 2014, on a three-count Indictment, charging him with Receipt of...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, March 21, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BERNARD McALLISTER, 43, of Lisbon, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former bank director has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of theft, embezzlement and misappropriation by a bank officer or employee, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.