News from May 2014

By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on May 2, 2014, Jeremy Eades, 28, Oklahoma City, Okla., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on a charge of possession of materials involving the sexual exploitation of minors. Eades pleaded guilty to the charge on.

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, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: Defendant Used his Computer and the Internet to Download and Save Dozens of Child Pornography Files.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Jorge Montemayor and Leticia Reyna have been ordered to prison for their convictions of failing to pay over employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Montemayor and Reyna pleaded guilty Jan. 24, 2014, and Nov. 18, 2013, respectively.
By USDA Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).

By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: A Detroit tax preparer pleaded guilty to willfully making false claims to the United States government by preparing false income tax returns, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.

By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell E. Issa took the unprecedented step of issuing a unilateral subpoena demanding that a sitting cabinet Secretary testify before the Oversight Committee-in just over two weeks-and accusing him of a crime. Chairman Issa did not first send a letter making his request, he did not call to determine if the Secretary would be in the country, and he did not hold a Committee vote on his subpoena.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, PR - In the first case since 1945 in the District of Puerto Rico involving the transportation of an adult with the intent to engage in criminal sexual conduct, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents arrested a man in Orocovis today...

By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Susie Michelle Strength, a registered nurse from Clanton, Alabama was indicted by a federal grand jury for tampering with a vial of Morphine Sulfate pain medication while working as a registered nurse at Prattville Baptist Hospital, announced U.S. Attorney George L. Beck, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: Indictment Stems from USAO’s Miami Gardens Violence Reduction Partnership.

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. On April 23, 2014, Thomas D. Tindall, 21, of Willisville, and Seth D. Conway, 26, of Percy, were charged by indictment with conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, the United States Attorney...

By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - Memorial Day represents a time for the nation to pause, remember and honor the service of deceased veterans and military members who died on active duty. For many Americans, the weekend marks the unofficial beginning of summer and includes activities such as backyard barbeques...

By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that ALEX V. EKDESHMAN, 41, of Holmdel, New Jersey, was arrested this morning...

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: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 87 months imprisonment and eight years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotic laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., released the following statement on the announcement that Speaker Boehner intends to establish a House select committee to investigate the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi...

By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jason.
By US DOT Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, made the following statement regarding today's release of the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies report entitled, "Review of the Environmental Protection Agency's State-of-the-Science ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Samilyn Olson, 47, of Jamestown, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute oxycodone, was sentenced to one year home detention and three years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2014
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury yesterday found Jeffrey R. Green (50, Cape Coral), the owner of Gulf Coast Medical Pharmacy, and Karen S. Hebble (44, Cape Coral), the manager of this pharmacy, guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to...