News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: Huntington, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that John Clark Schlotter, 30, originally from Weirton, West Virginia, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Huntington to unlawful possession of a firearm by a drug addict.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - One man was sentenced and another pleaded guilty to child pornography offenses in separate cases in federal court today, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - After deliberating for three hours on May 23, a federal jury of six men and six women found Rafael A. Cabrera, a/k/a Rubio, guilty of one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: Monsegur Cooperated With Law Enforcement To Reveal Structure And Methods Of Numerous Criminal Cyber Groups, And Enabled Authorities To Identify Key Cyber Criminals, Make Arrests, And Prevent And Remediate Numerous Cyber Attacks.
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, announced that two Hartford residents were sentenced today in Hartford federal court for operating an identity theft and...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: Defendant Sentenced For His Role In A Racketeering Conspiracy, Including A 1981 Double Homicide Of Two Queens Bar Owners Over A Spilled Drink.
By USDA Newswire | May 27, 2014
Release: Washington, DC, May 27, 2014 - Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture unveiled Healthy Eating on a Budget - the newest addition to ChooseMyPlate.gov. Consumers continue to want more information about how to make better eating decisions with limited resources. To meet this need, the USDA's Center for...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Robert T. Johnson, the District Attorney for Bronx County, George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and William J. Bratton, Commissioner...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The First Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld the conviction of Robert O. Robinson, 32, of Woonsocket, for running a crack cocaine trafficking conspiracy out of a Woonsocket bar, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha. Robinson was convicted by a federal court jury in ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: BLUEFIED, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Kristi Ball, 39, of Princeton, West Virginia was sentenced in federal court in Bluefield today to 13 months in prison for distributing hydromorphone, an addictive prescription medicine. Ball previously pled guilty in February of 2014...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: John Starks Sr., age 46, and Casey Duhme, age 24, both from Dubuque, Iowa, have been charged with multiple methamphetamine-related offenses connected to a building fire that occurred on Feb. 20, 2014 in Dubuque. The charges are contained in an Indictment unsealed in the United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By State Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the presidential election in Ukraine...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: Bradley Bowman, a resident of Lighthouse Point, Florida, pleaded guilty to one count of filing a false claim for a tax refund with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), U.S. Attorney Wifredo Ferrer for the Southern District of Florida and Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the Justice Department’s Tax Division announced today. Bowman was indicted on March 25, 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT), joined by Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Tom Coburn (R-OK), today urged the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Inspector General (IG) to carefully examine recent reports that the government may be paying incorrect Obamacare subsidies as the IG prepares to submit a mandated report to Congress by July 1.
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 Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
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 US DOT Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today sent a letter to Gina McCarthy, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), following up on a congressional request for the Agency to produce documents related to EPA's fee waiver process ...
By US DOT Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the statement below following the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) vote today to allow dangerous spent nuclear fuel to remain in reactor spent fuel pools for as long as a nuclear reactor operator wishes, rather than requiring operators to more quickly move the spent fuel to safer dry cask storage.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO ― A suburban businessman and his bookkeeper are facing federal fraud charges for allegedly cheating credit card companies of approximately $1.2 million and evading their personal federal income tax obligations of more than $1.5 million, federal law enforcement officials announced today. The defendants...
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - U.S. District Court Chief Judge William E. Smith on Friday found Andrew A. Calcione, 49, of Cranston, guilty of one count each of threatening to assault and murder an IRS revenue agent and threatening to assault and murder the agent’s family, announced United States Attorney Peter...
