News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOL Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement today on the April employment report showing that the economy added 288,000 jobs last month, with the national unemployment rate dropping to 6.3 percent from 6.7 percent.
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: With the weather warming up around the state, more people will be visiting public lands to view the wildflowers, catch a glimpse of a soaring hawk or a young mule deer, raft on rivers through deep canyons, or take in the dramatic views of the vast landscape. An increase in visitors can also mean a greater...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Ruben Barajas, 37, of Stockton, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley to 11 years in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: Funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Reuben Lasker is the fifth in a series of ultra-quiet, high-tech fisheries survey vessels designed to meet the NOAA Fisheries Service ’s specific data collection requirements. The ship was built in Wisconsin by Marinette Marine Corporation, a Fincantieri company.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA B Today Ricardo Jean-Louis, 24, of North Miami, Florida, was sentenced to five years in federal prison for theft of government property, access device fraud, and aggravated identity theft. The sentence was announced by Pamela C. Marsh, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: - Concealed $1,045,327 in income from the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Bobby Concho, 53, pleaded guilty this morning to federal assault and domestic assault by a habitual offender charges. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Concho will be sentenced to 40 months in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By State Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that on Thursday, May 8, the Committee will convene a hearing to examine Russian influence in the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. The hearing, entitled “Russia’s Destabilization of Ukraine, " will begin at 10:00 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Two Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) gang members pleaded guilty this week to racketeering charges related to their membership in the ABT’s criminal enterprise, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Acting Assistant Attorney General David A. O’Neil of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
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: Roger Andrews Created Fake and Forged Documents and Promised Victims He Would Use Their Money for an Investment in Indiana; Instead, He Gambled It Away in the Stock Market.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ----- The Lane Construction Corporation and McAfee Design and Distributing Co., Inc. have agreed to pay the United States a total of $400,000 to resolve allegations that these companies submitted false claims under the Department of Transportation’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program, the United States Attorney Bill Nettles announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Michael T. Sahlbach, 60, of Granite Bay, was arrested today for six counts of bank and wire fraud, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. A federal grand jury returned the sealed indictment yesterday; it was unsealed after his arrest today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On April 28, 2014, Marcos Soto-Mendoza, 43, of Tonalisco, Nayarit, Mexico, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release. The sentence was imposed by District Court Judge Cindy K. Jorgenson. On April 12, 2013, Soto-Mendoza was found guilty by a jury of five counts of bringing in an illegal alien for profit.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Lawrence Stowe, 61, has been ordered to prison for his role in a conspiracy to introduce misbranded and unapproved new drugs into interstate commerce, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Tommy Hennesy, resident agent in charge of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - Office of Criminal Investigations. Stowe pleaded guilty Sept. 7, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Senior United States District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik yesterday sentenced Leroy Trudgen, age 58, of Pittston, Pennsylvania, to 97 months’ imprisonment for his involvement in a conspiracy to distribute more than 5 kilograms of cocaine between 2007 and April 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce the filing of a two-count information charging Jose Emmanuel Torres, 37, of Cooper City, in count one, with...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Mohammad Jamal Rashid, 45, has been ordered to prison for conspiracy to illegal importation and traffic in counterfeit and misbranded Viagra® and Cialis,® and receiving and delivering misbranded drugs, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Special Agent in Charge Brian...
