News from May 2014
By Homeland Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: On April 22, 2014 DHS Secretary Johnson issued a Department-wide leadership memorandum outlining his plans for addressing some of the Department’s major management and mission challenges. Specifically, the Secretary’s plans involve improving Departmentwide efforts to improve leadership, resource and acquisition investments, strategic planning decisions, and enhancing coordinated operations.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A former Chicago area real estate investment partner was indicted on federal charges alleging that he fraudulently obtained more than $10 million from more than 50 investors, many of whom lived in the Chicago area, and misused the funds he obtained from them as well as lenders. The defendant, MATTHEW STOEN, was a founder of Stone Rose, LP, and effectively was its managing general partner.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that Gary Berry, 23, of Lafayette, was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Richard T. Haik to 168 months in prison and 15 years of supervised release for receiving child pornography on his computer. He will also be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, May 2, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. The United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut today announced that AMAURY VILLA, 39, a citizen of Cuba last residing in Miami, Florida, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge...
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: Within the next 1-2 weeks Congaree National Park plans to complete two controlled burns on approximately 975 acres of park woodlands. The purpose of prescribed fire is to reduce hazardous fuels and the threat of wildfire to park neighbors, enhance habitat for the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker and...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, May 2, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Jose Manuel Goyos, Jr., 27, of Jupiter, Florida, was sentenced today to 96 months in federal prison for his role in a fraudulent telemarketing scheme that stole $14.5 million from over 7,000...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ga. - Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Mark C. Simpson, 51, of Lake Park, Georgia, and Stuart C. Cole, age 59, of St. Petersburg Beach, Florida, were sentenced on May 1, 2014 for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud and conspiracy...
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - The BLM Royal Gorge Field Office today released a preliminary environmental assessment analyzing the proposed sale of oil and gas leases on 29 parcels totaling 8,159 acres of public mineral estate in Baca, El Paso, Elbert, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Washington and Weld counties.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Dr. Yashica Robinson-White, 38 of Opelika, Alabama was indicted by a federal grand jury for health care fraud totaling over $60,000.00 and for introducing misbranded drugs into interstate commerce, announced U.S. Attorney George L. Beck, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Rodney Walker, 44, of Atlanta, Georgia, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara, to wire fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Jose Luis Garcia-Saldivar, 29, an undocumented alien from Mexico, has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for enticing a minor, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson today. Garcia-Saldivar previously pleaded guilty Sept. 4, 2012, admitting he intended to have sex with a minor for money.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. announced today that a Mannford woman had pleaded guilty in federal court to fraudulently obtaining Federal Emergency Disaster Agency (FEMA) disaster assistance benefits made available to victims of the Mannford wildfires.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, PR - Yesterday, May 1st, a Federal grand jury returned a 510-count second superseding indictment against attorney and notary public Antonio Peluzzo-Perotin, María Del Carmen Rivera-Negrón, Julio Colón-Santiago, the Lawman Gun Shop, José M. Prado-Colón and Julio C. Medina-Mojica for conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO ― A Chicago man who committed 20 armed robberies of stores and businesses during a five-month period in 2010, was sentenced today to more than 15 years in federal prison. The defendant, CARLOS OCHOA, had admitted committing 15 robberies in Chicago, three in Berwyn, and one each in Aurora and Indian Head Park, sometimes for as little as $25, between July and November 2010.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal grand jury this week indicted a Florence couple on multiple charges that they exploited a minor child in their custody to produce child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Derek Felicio, 41, of North Smithfield, R.I., was ordered detained in federal custody on Thursday pending a detention hearing later today on charges of allegedly possessing and distributing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Bruce M. Foucart, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in New England.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Snangehk Peou, 25, of Stockton, was sentenced on May 1, 2014, by United States District Judge Morrison C. England, Jr. to five years and 11 months in prison for conspiring to commit a robbery affecting interstate commerce, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Florida - The National Park Service (NPS) is beginning an environmental assessment (EA) for the proposed replacement of an NPS owned radio tower at the Dr. Bill Robertson Research Center within Everglades National Park. Verizon Wireless Personal Communications, LP (Verizon Wireless) has applied...
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia -At the beginning of June 1864, the Andersonville prison had been operating for just over three months. Now badly overcrowded, prison authorities began efforts to enlarge the prison. By the end of the month, Brigadier General John Winder had relocated his headquarters from Richmond...
