News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: - Recently pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to defrauding elderly Daviess County couple of $200,000 in similar home improvement scam.
By Commerce Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: I wish to speak for a few minutes about the urgency of passing the tax extender bill and describe to our colleagues all the bipartisanship that has gone into this important effort.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Calvin James Catalon Jr., 35, of Lafayette, La., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Patricia Minaldi, to charges of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, May 22, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Abbe L. Terry, 49, of Granite City, Illinois, was charged on May 21, 2014, for obtaining controlled substances by fraud, forgery, and deception, in an Indictment returned by a Federal...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, May 22, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that Dennis Harold French, 51, of Caseyville, Illinois, was indicted by a federal...
By Commerce Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Hurricane Henriette captured by NOAA’s GOES West on August 7, 2013, as it moves toward the Central Pacific. Credit: NOAA
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ALFONSO PORTILLO, the former President of Guatemala, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 70 months in prison for laundering millions of dollars through bank accounts located in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Thomas J. Blajszczak, 44, of Lancaster, N.Y., who was convicted of being an unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of a firearm, was sentenced to six months home confinement by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Interior Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Fort Sumter National Monument will celebrate the 98th anniversary of Flag Day with free activities at the Fort Sumter Visitor Education Center in downtown Charleston on Saturday, June 14th from 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Designed primarily for children and families, the activities will offer visitors the opportunity...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The third man involved in an illegal campfire above Glendora that erupted out of control to become the destructive Colby Fire was found guilty this afternoon of federal criminal charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: 180 Defendants Have Been Charged to Date as Part of the Southern District of Florida Securities and Investment Fraud Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Roberto Carlos Garza, Alexander Chavez and Martin Loya-Plancarte have all been ordered to federal prison for their roles in a five kilogram methamphetamine deal that occurred on May 18, 2013, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Garza, 24, and Chavez, 34, both of Rio Grande City, and Loya-Plancarte, 26, an undocumented alien from Mexico residing in the Houston area, all previously pleaded guilty in the case.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Anthony Michael Bennett, 21, was sentenced today to 40 years in federal prison on the charge of second degree murder, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - Chastain Montgomery, Sr., 50, of Lavergne, TN, pleaded guilty today to seven federal crimes committed during a six-month spree that included the murders of United States Postal Service employees Paula Robinson and Judy Spray, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III; Keith Fixel, Inspector in Charge of the Charlotte Division, United States Postal Inspection Service; and Mark Gwyn, Director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office today announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By Commerce Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., released the following statement on Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen’s decision to scrap a proposed rule to limit political speech by nonprofit and social welfare organizations...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: POCATELLO - Daniel Joseph Dalton, 38, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 39 months in federal prison for possessing sexually explicit images of minors, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also sentenced Dalton to 15 years of supervised release. Dalton pleaded guilty to the charge in January 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, following Attorney General Holder’s announcement of significant policy shift concerning electronic recording of statements, United States Attorney John S. Leonardo offers the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III, announces that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging William Paez Rubiano (40) with importing approximately 3.3 kilograms of heroin into the United States from Colombia. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison.
