News from May 2014
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: Mr. President, as the Senate debates the EXPIRE Act on the floor, the country happens to be celebrating National Small Business Week. In that spirit, I’d like to take a few minutes to talk about a few of the steps this legislation takes to help small businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A former financial officer and president of General Glass Equipment Company in Galloway, N.J., was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for concealing his actual income on corporate and personal tax returns, including more than $700,000 he failed to report in 2004, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: MOBILE, Ala. - Lee Anthony Guidry, 48, of Robertsdale, was sentenced today in federal court to 130 months imprisonment for his role in a conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine. Guidry pled guilty to the charge in June of 2013. United States District Court Judge William H. Steele imposed the sentence...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A three-count indictment unsealed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City charges Raymond Michael Livingston, aka Bobby and Michael, age 34, with possession of 18 stolen firearms and burglary of a federal firearms licensee in connection with a June 23, 2013, burglary of Stewart’s Ace Hardware in Roosevelt.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced today that Leslie A. Miller, (age: 50), of Keshena, Wisconsin located on the Menominee Indian Reservation, was sentenced on April 15, 2014, to 42 months of imprisonment, followed by a term of 10 years on supervised release. The sentence was the result of a guilty plea by Miller on Jan. 17, 2014, to a federal indictment charging him with abusive sexual contact with a person under the age of 12 years.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Trinidad Jesus Suarez, age 26, of Sunnyside, Washington, was sentenced for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Senior United States District Court Judge Edward F. Shea sentenced Suarez to a 174 month term of imprisonment, to be followed by a 60 month term of court supervision upon release from Federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ----- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that a Federal Grand Jury in Charleston, South Carolina, returned Indictment(s) against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against Brice Johnson, 19, of Springtown, Texas, charging him with willfully causing bodily injury to a person because of the actual or perceived sexual orientation of that person and with kidnapping, 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 today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jacob Rivera, a/k/a “JJ," 20, who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute more than 280 grams of cocaine base, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of his drug trafficking activities, was sentenced to 17 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Alton Emerson Morgan, 39, of Waveland, Mississippi, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 33 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his involvement in making and passing counterfeit money, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Special Agent in Charge Craig Caldwell with the U.S. Secret Service. Morgan was also ordered to pay a $2,500 fine and $760 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that RAMACHANDRAN VADIVELLO aka VICRAAMA SARADA aka VIC RAMA (“VIC RAMA"), was sentenced today in the District Court of Guam by Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood, to six months home confinement followed by five years probation. VIC RAMA was also ordered to pay restitution to the victims in this case in the amount of $117,197.29.
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing on the nomination of Sylvia Mathews Burwell to be Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Walter J. Pietralczyk, Jr., age 40, Jermyn, Pennsylvania was sentenced yesterday in federal court for his role in a tax fraud while also involved his wife, Lackawanna County Attorney, Danielle Ross. U.S. Magistrate Judge, Thomas M. Blewitt, sentenced Pietralczyk to a two year term of probation and ordered him to pay restitution in the amount of $63,124.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Bullhead, South Dakota, woman convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on May 12, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: Defendant Took Pornographic Photos To Exploit Juvenile Female.
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today urged swift confirmation for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) nominee Sylvia Mathews Burwell.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Debra Van Brunt-Oreiro, age 59, of Omak, Washington, was sentenced today for filing a false income tax return. United States District Court Chief Judge Rosanna M. Peterson sentenced Van Brunt-Oreiro...
By DOE Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), will hold a hearing next week to review draft text of the Promoting New Manufacturing Act, legislation to advance the timely issuance of air permits needed to build modern new factories and other energy intensive...
By US DOT Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), today sent a letter to Gina McCarthy, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), following the Agency's Office of Atmospheric Programs' request for public engagement ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Authorities this morning arrested 12 people and are seeking the whereabouts of three others who are charged in a large-scale, bank account “bustout" scheme that victimized major financial institutions across Southern California, costing banks at least $15 million.
