News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The former owner of the Simi Valley-based battery distributor Powerline, Inc. was sentenced today to 87 months in prison for defrauding the government by selling more than $2.7 million in knock-off batteries to the U.S. Department of Defense.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2014
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - David Schrader, 47, of Portland, Oregon, was sentenced October 1 by U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Jones to 46 months in prison for the crime of wire fraud and ordered to pay over $1.4 million in restitution to DAT Solutions (formerly Transcore), the victim of his crime. As summarized...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2014
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder presented Assistant U.S. Attorneys Bridget M. Brennan and Ava M. Rotell Dustin the John Marshall Award for Participation in Litigation today at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., honoring them for successfully prosecuting the arson at the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A woman from Middlesex, New Jersey, today admitted defrauding the United States Department of the Treasury of $940,000 in income tax return checks, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted nine defendants - seven men and two women - who are alleged to be members of the Jenifer drug trafficking organization (Jenifer DTO) for conspiring to distribute kilograms of cocaine in the Baltimore metropolitan and Woodbridge, Virginia areas. The indictment seeks the forfeiture of $15 million. The indictment was returned on Sept. 3, 2014 and unsealed on October 9, 2014 upon the arrests of defendants.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. B A Colombian cartel leader expelled from Venezuela to face federal charges in New Jersey for his role in an international cocaine distribution conspiracy admitted today in Newark federal court to conspiring traffic the drug into the United States, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Aaron T. Ford announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Attorney General Eric Holder presented three Justice Department employees and one former employee in the Eastern District of California with Attorney General Awards at a ceremony today in Washington DC. These annual awards, which are the highest honors bestowed by the Department, recognize Department employees and other individuals for their dedication to carrying out the Department of Justice’s mission.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U. S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced that four members of a drug trafficking organization allegedly responsible for distributing heroin and crystal methamphetamine in the Camden area were arrested today by federal, state and local law enforcement officers.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Department of Agriculture officials and staff with the Senate Agriculture Committee and the office of U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) have scheduled two listening sessions at which agriculture producers in Mississippi can provide input and ask questions about new programs authorized in the Agricultural Act of 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: The 2014 elk reduction program begins Saturday, Oct. 18, in Grand Teton National Park. Changes that were implemented in 2013 will be continued for the 2014 season. Those changes include: a requirement that hunters participating in the park's elk reduction program use non-lead ammunition; a limit to the number of cartridges hunters may carry each day; and the closure of a portion of the Snake River bottom to reduce the chance of grizzly bear-hunter encounters.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senator Tom Carper, D-Del., welcomed a World Trade Organization decision today that India’s ban on imports of various U.S. agricultural products - including a wide range of poultry products - without a scientific basis for doing so, violated international trade rules.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Liberal, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for receiving child pornography over the Internet. Matthew W. Splitter, 25, of Liberal, was sentenced by U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today, MICHAEL JOSEPH PLOCAR, 62pled guilty before Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III to receipt of child pornography, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252(a)(2), during his arraignment.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON— Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson today met with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York City Police Department Commissioner William Bratton to underscore the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) important collaboration ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder, along with Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole, announced today that the Department of Justice will no longer ask criminal defendants who plead guilty to waive their right to bring future claims of ineffective assistance of counsel. The new policy bolsters the department’s commitment to ensuring that individuals are ably represented as they face criminal charges and marks the Attorney General’s latest step to reform the criminal justice system.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: A Florida managing member of a shell company pleaded guilty today in federal court in Tampa, Florida, for his role in a multi-million dollar health care fraud and money laundering scheme. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney A. Lee ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: The Justice Department announced that it has entered into a comprehensive settlement agreement with the Falcon School District 49 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to resolve complaints about the district’s response to racial harassment and discrimination in its schools. The agreement will continue for ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: A federal court in Montgomery, Alabama, has permanently barred a Montgomery tax preparer from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned a superseding indictment today charging Ahmed Abu Khatallah, aka Ahmed Mukatallah, with numerous additional offenses arising from his alleged participation in the Sept. 11 through 12, 2012, terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, which resulted in the deaths of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and U.S. government personnel Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty.
By Fed Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday released the minutes of its discount rate meetings for August 25 and Sept. 15, 2014.
