News from November 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced today that Terjun Tremaine Parker, 37, of Little Rock, Arkansas, was sentenced on Friday, Nov. 14, 2014 to serve 30 months in federal prison for his acts of identity theft, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1028.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A man from Arizona was sentenced Tuesday to 37 months in federal prison after being stopped with almost 100 kilograms of marijuana in his car, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Derrick Dujuan Greathouse, 36, of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced today in federal court in Charleston to 70 months imprisonment for possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute. Greathouse entered a guilty plea in June of...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: Tracey McShane, 40, of East Fallowfield, PA,was charged by indictment with two counts of wire fraud, in and six counts of filing false individual income tax returns, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah received bonus bids totaling $4,876,823 for 64 parcels covering 64,701 acres at the quarterly oil and gas lease sale held today at the BLM-Utah State Office in Salt Lake City.The BLM sold 64 of the 65 offered parcels. In addition to the bonus bids, the sale grossed...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
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By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published for public review draft recommendations to ensure the confidentiality of sensitive federal information residing on the computers of contractors and other nonfederal organizations working for the government.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement on the announcement that Rep. Jason Chaffetz will be the next committee chairman...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.-The Bureau of Land Management is seeking nominations to fill two vacancies on its Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area Advisory Council.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Kentucky Resident for Maintaining Secret Swiss Bank Accounts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JESSE KAPLAN, 31, formerly of Naugatuck, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Ellen Bree...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Nov. 12, 2014, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 18 defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The Drug Enforcement Administration is in charge of the investigation, with the collaboration of the Puerto Rico Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - XS Platinum, Inc. and five of its officers and employees were indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage today for five felony violations, including conspiracy to violate the Clean Water Act and for submitting material false statements, announced Sam Hirsch, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and Karen L. Loeffler, U.S. Attorney for the District of Alaska.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C.-In light of reports that more than 500 million records have been compromised due to data security breaches in the U.S. financial sector over the past year, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings and Senator Elizabeth Warren sent letters today to 16 banks, investment firms, and other financial service providers requesting information about recent data breaches and seeking detailed briefings from corporate IT security officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that U.S. District Judge Maurice A. Hicks has re-sentenced GEORGE L. GRACE, SR., age 70, of St. Gabriel, Louisiana, to twenty (20) years imprisonment, a $50,000 fine, forfeiture of $22,000, and a year of supervised release following imprisonment.
By State Newswire | Nov 18, 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 terrorist attack in a Jerusalem synagogue...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced DONALD Wayne MANGUM, 52, of Fuquay-Varina to 24 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release, and ordered him to pay $101,675.00 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: Seventeen individuals were arrested today, 14 of whom are or were students at Miami Dade College, for their involvement in a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme that utilized students’ Higher One financial services accounts. A total of 21 individuals were charged, four individuals remain at large.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2014
News Release: An indictment was unsealed yesterday charging two individuals with running an identity theft and false income tax return scheme, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
