News from May 2014
By DOT News Wire | May 29, 2014
The US Transportation Department published a four page proposed rule on May 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | May 29, 2014
News Release: BTS 26-14 Thursday, May 29, 2014 Contact: Dave Smallen Tel: 202-366-5568 BTS Releases March North American Freight Numbers http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/press_releases/bts026_14
By DOT News Wire | May 29, 2014
News Release: DOT 51-14 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation today fined Southwest Airlines $200,000 for violating the Department’s full-fare advertising rules and ordered the carrier to cease and desist from further violations. By violating the full-fare advertising rule in this case, Southwest Airlines ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Reed Springs, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for making more than $124,000 in fraudulent tax refund claims.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Munhall, Pa., was sentenced today in federal court to four years probation on his conviction of federal employees’ compensation fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Luis Ortiz, 42, formerly of Providence, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence today to failing to register as a sex offender as required by the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and United States Marshal Jamie A. Hainsworth.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Nyle Churchwell, 52, of Houston, has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in the issuance of passports for unqualified people, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A jury convicted Churchwell Jan. 31, 2014, following four days of trial and approximately six hours of deliberation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: In Del Rio, a federal grand jury has indicted two Carrizo Springs, TX, residents for their roles in an undocumented immigrant smuggling scheme in which the victims suffered serious bodily injury announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Janice Ayala, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jose A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and Paula Reid, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Secret Service (USSS), announce that defendants Marlan L. Copeland, 42, and...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 47-year-old Longview, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that MARQUEL DAVON FOSTER, age 23, of Columbia, South Carolina has entered a guilty plea to making a false statement in the acquisition of firearms from a federal firearms licensee, in violation of Title 18, United States ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: Contact: Public Information Officer. Number: (313) 234-4310. COLUMBUS, Ohio - Terry Dragash, DO, 59, of Pataskala, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court, in Columbus, Ohio, to conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Five defendants have been indicted on federal charges of conspiring to illegally import into the United States male enhancement products that contained the active ingredient in Viagra.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FABIAN AUGUSTINE, also known as “J" and “Fabe," 24, of West Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 71 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking crack cocaine and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: SEATTLE - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Washington indicted seven people late yesterday for an illegal drug distribution scheme involving an internet pharmacy. The originator of the scheme, Juan Gallinal, 41, of Pembroke Pines, Florida will be summoned to appear for arraignment in Seattle. The internet pharmacy distributed drugs to some 200 customers in Washington state between 2009 and 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Five commercial airline employees were arrested today and charged after an undercover operation revealed that they used their airport security clearances to secretly smuggle thousands of dollars in cash, past security checkpoints.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, May 29, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FABIAN AUGUSTINE, also known as “J" and “Fabe," 24, of West Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District...
By Commerce Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: A month ago, Republicans on this committee voted to add $310 billion to the deficit by making permanent six separate tax provisions. Today, they will nearly double that number - adding another $287 billion to the deficit - with a vote on a single tax provision that not only was never meant to be permanent, but one that loses its effectiveness when made so.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: Four people from Northeast Ohio were indicted for a conspiracy to use false identities, including those of people incarcerated, to file nearly $2 million worth of false tax claims, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Kathy Enstrom, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation, Cincinnati Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Detrius Elliott, 43, of Clinton, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to identity theft for stealing at least 78 identities belonging to financial guarantors of patients at a Washington, D.C. hospital, as part of a large identity theft ring operating in the area.
