News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ----- U.S. Attorney Bill Nettles, announced today that 22 federal, state and local leaders have entered into an alliance to identify and protect drug endangered children in the State of South Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Amelia Jackson, 43, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of workers compensation fraud, was sentenced to five years of probation, with the first six months on home detention, by U.S. District Court Judge Charles J. Siragusa. The defendant was also ordered to pay $14,524 in restitution.
By Commerce Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Less than a month ago, House Republicans heralded the “fiscal responsibility" of the Ryan-Republican budget, so much so that you might think they cared about deficit reduction. How quickly things have changed. Today Republicans will go to the floor and argue in support of the first of several permanent,...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Gabriel Valley businessman who coordinated the importation of 11 containers of counterfeit apparel - including Nike, Gucci and Coach products worth more than $2.3 million - was sentenced today to 31 months in federal prison.
By DOE Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today welcomed a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision exempting the wood bison from the Endangered Species Act in Alaska. The decision will allow the reintroduction of wild bison in the state for the first time in more than 100 years.
By Commerce Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement in reaction to the news that the economy grew 0.1 percent in the first quarter of 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Quincy man was charged yesterday in connection with a scheme to steal valuable intellectual property from his former employer, Daedalus Software, Inc., of Cambridge.
By Homeland Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It may come as no surprise that I rise to oppose the subcommittee allocations offered today by the Chairman. Most of us in this room voted for the budget “deal" that prevented another shutdown, averted default, and provided this committee two years’ worth of certainty. I supported...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, stated that on May 2, 2014, Gregory Johnson, 30, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 38 months in prison for his participation in cocaine base distribution and the possession of firearm. Chief United States District Judge Christina Reiss, sitting in Burlington, also ordered Johnson to serve a term of three years of supervised release following his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- The owners and operators of Richard Joseph SalonSpas in the Birmingham area have agreed to plead guilty to a tax fraud conspiracy for failing to pay employment taxes to the IRS that they withheld from employees' wages over eight years, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Veronica Hyman-Pillot.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - An indictment filed today charges Dale Mentzer, 36, of Waymart, PA, and Heath DeRizzo, 37, of Manheim, PA, in a half-dozen armed robberies, in Berks, Chester, Lebanon, and Northampton Counties, between July 11, 2013 and July 19, 2013, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Mitch Merritt, 30, of Rochester, New Hampshire and Scott Woodman, 29, of Farmington, New Hampshire were sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal for their involvement in a heroin distribution conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul announced today that William Manuszewski, 59, and Donald Grzebielucha, 59, both of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara, to a negligent endangerment charge under the Clean Air Act. The charge carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison, a fine of $100,000 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Admits Aiding and Abetting Unlawful Acquisition and Transportation of Three Mountain Lions.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Keith McBride, age 25, of Washington, D.C., today to 42 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to commit bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - James Enowitch, 48, of Cromwell, CT, pleaded guilty today to mail fraud and aiding and abetting mail fraud, in connection with the operation of a number of fraudulent diploma mills, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Between 2003 and 2012, Enowitch sold $5 million worth of fake degrees throughout the world. He profited more than $700,000 from this fraudulent scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: An illegal alien who possessed identification documents issued in the name of another real person was sentenced today to two years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: A Mexican citizen who was twice convicted using the identity of a dead American citizen who attempted to obtain new identification documents and gain employment in that name plead guilty May 7, 2014, in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK, Twentynine Palms, California -.
