News from May 2014
By DOT News Wire | May 28, 2014
The US Transportation Department published a seven page proposed rule on May 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | May 28, 2014
The US Transportation Department published a four page proposed rule on May 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | May 28, 2014
The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on May 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - Yesterday in federal court, a 26-year-old felon from St. Paul was sentenced for possessing a nine-millimeter semi-automatic handgun. United States District Court Judge Patrick J. Schiltz sentenced Gary James Rolfer, Jr. to 63 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Rolfer was indicted on August 5, 2013, and pleaded guilty on Oct. 3, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: Zhifei Li, the owner of an antique business in China, was sentenced today to serve 70 months in prison for heading an illegal wildlife smuggling conspiracy in which 30 rhinoceros horns and numerous objects made from rhino horn and elephant ivory worth more than $4.5 million were smuggled from the United States to China.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Gloucester County, N.J., man was sentenced today to 240 months in prison for receipt of images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a five-count indictment charging Gregory Kwiatkowski, 49, Raymond Krug, 36, and Joseph Wendel, 37, with using excessive force and conspiring to use excessive force while acting under color of law. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE -Richard Ouellette, 28, of Milford, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 33 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The owner of a group of freight payment, logistics, and shipping businesses headquartered in Branchburg, N.J., surrendered today to face charges she operated them as a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: Spring wildflowers are again bringing life and a splash of color to the lava landscape at Craters of the Moon. Timely spring rains and warmer temperatures are making late May and early June an ideal time to see the profusion of flowers along the monument's seven-mile loop road.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Richard Ouellette, 28, of Milford, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 33 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - Today in federal court, a 30-year-old Little Falls man pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute methamphetamine. James Kelly Benson specifically pleaded guilty to one count of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine. Benson, who was indicted on Feb. 12, 2014, entered his guilty plea before United States District Court Judge Donovan W. Frank.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Two individuals involved in a methamphetamine conspiracy were sentenced on May 28, 2014, by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge. Randy J. Davis, 42, of Trade, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 228 months in federal prison, to be followed by eight years of supervised release...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that six former employees of the Internal Revenue Service have pleaded guilty to receiving unemployment benefits while they worked at the agency.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: A five-count indictment was filed today charging a Parma couple with running a heroin distribution operation from an apartment on West 50th Street, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A federal grand jury returned a nine-count superseding indictment on Tuesday charging a Providence landlord with allegedly masterminding an arson-for-hire conspiracy which resulted in an occupied multi-family dwelling in Providence that he owned being damaged by fire and the collection ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: A Lakewood man was sentenced to more than seven years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $7 million in restitution for embezzling from a Euclid credit union and using the money to pay his personal credit card accounts, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 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 the indictment of JUVENCIO MARTINEZ-MARTINEZ on hostage taking and alien smuggling charges. MARTINEZ-MARTINEZ was previously arrested in the Southern District of Texas and ordered removed to White Plains, New York.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Antoun Arbaji today pleaded guilty to stealing government property described as fraudulently-obtained tax refunds. Arbaji faces a maximum penalty of ten years in federal prison, as well as an obligation to pay back approximately $1,909,403.66 in restitution to the United States. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 42-year-old Bullard, Texas, woman has been sentenced to federal prison for her role in a food stamp fraud scheme in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
