News published on Federal Newswire in October 2014

News from October 2014


News Release: The Obed Wild and Scenic River will be hosting another Memories of the Obed program on Saturday, November 8, at 2:00 p.m. (ET). This program will feature Nick Tanner, a long-time Wartburg resident and second generation owner of Tanner's Café, Sundries and Antiques. Memories to be shared include childhood...


News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in Hartford jury has found EDWARD MEMOLI, 65, of Unadilla, N.Y., guilty of federal...


News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that John.


News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Indianapolis has been sentenced in federal court to 120 months in prison and three years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.


News Release: BOSTON - A Manchester man pleaded guilty today to stealing more than $160,000 in government benefits.


News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury indicted Barry Stephen Robinson, age 65, of Accokeek, Maryland, in connection with an alleged bribery scheme earlier this year while he was Chief of the Division of Transit and Marine Services of the Baltimore City Department of Transportation. Robinson is charged with two counts of bribery concerning a program that received federal funds, and one count of money laundering. The indictment was returned on Oct. 29, 2014.


News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments yesterday. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.


News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Kelly R. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and Paula Reid, Special Agent in Charge, United States Secret Service (USSS), Miami Field Office, announce that Victor Diroggiero, 45, of Miami, was sentenced today to 101 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $745,000 in restitution.


Illegal Aliens Indicted For Violations Of The Federal Gun Control Act

News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ROBERTO HERRERA-VILLAGOMEZ, age 23, and JUAN MANUEL HERRERA-VILLAGOMEZ, age 32, both citizens of Mexico, were each charged today in two-count indictment with violations of the Federal Gun Control Act.


Three Dover Men Indicted for Conspiracy Involving Straw Purchase of Handgun

News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that an Indictment has been handed down by a federal grand jury charging Shakil Miller (age 21), Jon Henry (age 20), and Corey Harris (age 19), all of Dover, with Conspiracy to Provide False Information ...


Former Navy Intelligence Official Convicted In Silencers Conspiracy

News Release: Directed a $1.6 million contract for silencers to his boss’s brother’s company.


News Release: NEWNAN, Ga. - Michael E. Benton has been sentenced for theft of public funds for unlawfully purchasing vouchers of the Georgia Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program in exchange for cash.


News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - Genadi Yagodayev, a dual citizen of Kazakhstan and Israel, has been extradited to the United States from Cyprus to face charges related to the Rockford Group investment scheme, which defrauded investors out of millions of dollars. Yagodayev is charged in an indictment with mail and wire...


News Release: TULSA, Okla. - The operator of a cancer treatment clinic formerly located in Owasso and Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, Antonella Carpenter, 70, appeared in federal court today before United States Magistrate Judge Paul J. Cleary to face 41 counts of fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. for the Northern District of Oklahoma. The grand jury returned the charges in a superseding indictment filed Oct. 15, 2014. Carpenter entered a plea of not guilty to all charges.


United States Files Enforcement Action Against South Dakota Laser Medical Device Distributor

News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States filed a civil complaint for injunctive relief in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota against 2035 Inc. and its president, Dr. Robert L. Lytle, the Department of Justice announced. Lytle, who does business as 2035 Private Membership Association and QLasers Private Membership Association, is the owner and operator of 2035 Inc.


Woman Pleads Guilty To Lynchburg Mortgage Fraud

News Release: Susanne Helbig Admits To Causing Nearly $11 Million In Losses To Banks And Mortgage Lenders.


Beckley Heroin Dealer Sentenced In Federal Court In Beckley

News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that a Beckley man was sentenced in federal court for selling heroin. Jason Kaylor, 31, was sentenced to eight months in prison. Kaylor previously pled guilty in July of 2014, to selling heroin to a person cooperating with law enforcement authorities. The drug deal took place on Cunningham Avenue in Stanaford, West Virginia.


Pittsburg Resident Charged In Tax Fraud Scheme

News Release: San Francisco - Ebony Standifer, was charged with conspiracy to file false claims, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Acting Special Agent in Charge Thomas McMahon.


News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Vincent Singh, 45, formerly of Elk Grove, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to 15.5 years in prison for wire fraud and false statements in bankruptcy, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.


ENGEL STATEMENT ON THE SITUATION IN BURKINA FASO

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the situation in Burkina Faso...