News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - The former chief financial officer for a manufacturing firm in Emporia was sentenced Tuesday to four months home confinement for embezzling more than $265,927 from the company, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. She also was ordered to pay full restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Matthew Kolodesh, a/k/a “Matvei Kolodech," 52, of Churchville, PA, was sentenced May 23, 2014 to 176 months in prison and ordered to pay $16.2 million in restitution to Medicare and $16.2 million in a forfeiture money judgment for orchestrating a scheme to defraud Medicare through his home hospice business, among other crimes, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that Aaron Michael Murray (21, Clermont) has been charged by a federal grand jury in a superseding indictment with five counts of advertising for child pornography over the Internet, four counts of transporting child pornography...
By Interior Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska: Writer, photographer, and activist Kim Heacox will speak about his newest book, "John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire: How a Visionary and the Glaciers of Alaska Changed America" on Tuesday,June 3 at 7:00 pm at the Denali Visitor Center, located at Mile 1.2 of the Denali Park Road.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Aaron Benn, 23, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of bank robbery, was sentenced to 43 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The defendant was also ordered to pay $1,429 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Zhifei Li, the owner of an antique business in China, was sentenced today to 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 27, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Nineteen individuals have been arrested and charged in San Juan, Puerto Rico, with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and conspiracy to import heroin from Colombia and Venezuela into Puerto Rico, announced U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez Vélez for the District...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Jose Marinay, 52, of Annandale, Virginia, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for his involvement in a short sale mortgage fraud conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today the filing of a Bill of Information charging WILLIAM STEVEN MANNEAR, age 62, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with receiving child pornography, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Shantelle P. Kitchen, the Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI"), announced that VIKTOR KORDASH pled guilty today to willfully failing...
By Interior Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: Acting Superintendent Matt Stoffolano announced today that effective June 1, 2014, Chiricahua National Monument (NM) will waive all entrance and camping fees for the summer season. “We are continually analyzing all park operations to ensure monies are being well-spent", said Stoffolano. “These days the...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A total of seven people are headed to prison for their roles in a conspiracy to transport five kilograms or more of cocaine and international money laundering, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Wallace Lee Adkins, 81, and Timothy J. Harvey, 30, both of West Hamlin, West Virginia, entered guilty pleas today to aiding and abetting the distribution of oxycodone. Adkins and Harvey admitted that on March 26, 2013, they sold...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, May 27, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Cheryl Garcia, Acting Special Agent-in-Charge, U.S. Department of Labor - Office of Inspector General, Susan A. Hensley...
By State Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote United States Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas Donohue today and expressed serious concern about the Chamber of Commerce’s upcoming trip to Cuba.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: Visitors to Buffalo National River will soon find that almost all of the restrooms previously closed due to budget shortfalls will be opened as soon as possible and will remain open until mid-November, reflecting a return to normal operations. The park received additional funding to assist with this...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Jon Seth Davisson, a 22-year-old Wood County man convicted of receipt of child pornography, was sentenced today to 98 months in federal prison followed by 15 years of supervised release. In August of 2013, Davisson exchanged text...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - Alphonso Washington, age 31 of Princeton, West Virginia was sentenced today in federal court in Bluefield to three years and ten months imprisonment announced United States Attorney Booth Goodwin. Washington previously pled guilty in January of 2014, to possession with intent to distribute...
