News published on Federal Newswire in November 2014

News from November 2014


Audiologist Pleads Guilty To Tax Fraud

News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Ryan Trythall pleaded guilty to tax evasion today, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Acting Special Agent in Charge Thomas McMahon.


Attorney And Real Estate Developers Sentenced In Wilmington-area Mortgage Fraud Case

News Release: GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announces that today Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard sentenced numerous participants in a Wilmington area mortgage fraud scheme to prison. Senior Judge Howard also collectively ordered more than $1 Million in restitution judgments against the defendants. Those sentenced by the Court included a real estate closing attorney, two developers, and another conspirator.


News Release: DALLAS - Rictavious Butler, 20, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade to 30 months in federal prison. Butler, pleaded guilty in June 2014 to one count of Bank Robbery. U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas, made the announcement today.


Sentencing Of Last Two Defendants From A Total Of Seven Park Avenue, Rutland Drug Dealers Who Pleaded Guilty To Federal Heroin And Crack Cocaine Drug Conspiracy

News Release: RUTLAND, Vt. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated Chief Judge Christina Reiss, of the United States District Court, recently sentenced Eric (a.k.a. “Big...


Houma Man, Channing Christopher Miller, Sentenced To 10 Years On Federal Drug Violation

News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that CHANNING CHRISTOPHER MILLER, age 36, of Houma, Louisiana, was sentenced today after having previously pled guilty to a one-count indictment for possession with the intent to distribute cocaine hydrochloride.


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Miami-Dade Man Sentenced to 175 Months in Prison for Extortion Conspiracy

News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), Miami Field Office, and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation...


News Release: ATLANTA - Enkeleon Manati has been sentenced to three years in prison for his role in an alien smuggling operation based in Greece.


California Man, Zheng B. Ni, Pleads Guilty To Credit Card Fraud And Aggravated Identity Theft

News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr. announced that yesterday, ZHENG B. NI, age 26, a resident of Los Angeles, California, pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle to four counts of access device fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing TOMORROW to examine international and U.S. efforts to combat the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. The hearing entitled, “Combating Ebola in West Africa: The International Response, " will begin at 10 a.m.


News Release: HOMESTEAD, FLORIDA - Biscayne National Park is offering new and expanded free programs and events from Nov. 22, 2014, to April 30, 2015. Manatee walks, shoreline snorkeling, guided canoe trips, dip-netting programs, Family Fun Fest events, porch talks and other fun and educational activities are included. The programs are free and take place at the park's Dante Fascell Visitor Center located at 9700 SW 328th Street, nine miles east of Homestead, Florida.


News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the sentencing of MARK ALLEN GARCIA, 60, and PATRICIA ANN MCQUARRY, 56, for conspiracy to defraud the United States by filing false individual income tax returns. On May 20, 2014, following a one-week trial, a federal jury found the two defendants...


News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident was charged in a superseding indictment by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh with violations of federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.


Ron Wilson's Wife and Brother Plead Guilty to Conspiracy to Hide Assets

News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Cassandra Kendall Wilson, age 66, of Woodruff, South Carolina, and Timothy L. Wilson, age 60, of Martin, Tennessee, pled guilty today in federal court in Greenville, to conspiracy to obstruct justice, a violation of Title...


News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that James Hampton, 45, the former Assistant Chief Engineer for Westward Seafoods, Inc. (Westward), and Raul Morales, 53, the former Powerhouse Supervisor, were each sentenced today in U.S. District Court, in Anchorage, by Chief U.S.


News Release: ATLANTA - Heriberto Almonte-Reyes, the last of nineteen defendants in a large-scale money laundering organization, has been sentenced for his part in a conspiracy that laundered drug proceeds from Mexico, Australia, England, Spain, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Guatemala, Miami, New York, and Puerto Rico.


Judge Sentences Washington County Man To 20 Years In Prison For Child Exploitation Offenses

News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Washington County man has been sentenced in federal court to 20 years imprisonment on his conviction of receipt and distribution of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.


News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - On Nov. 10, 2014, TOMAS BURGOS, age 45, of Newburgh, New York, was sentenced by the Honorable Gary L. Sharpe to 37 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for filing a false claim with the Internal Revenue Service, announced United States Attorney Richard...


Four Men Sentenced on Charges of Participating in a Cargo Theft Ring

News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Ric L. Bradshaw, Sheriff, Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, announce the sentencing of Eliesky Sanchez, 31, Reinaldo Garcia Suarez, 39, Alien Moya, 30, all of West Palm Beach, and Reinaldo Llabona, Jr. 26, of Miami.


Third Defendant Pleads Guilty To Customer Impersonation Bank Fraud Scheme

News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Catya J. Craig, 30, of New York, N.Y., pled guilty today to conspiracy to commit bank fraud.