News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JUAN CARLOS MOSCOSO-CARDENAS, age 28, a citizen of Honduras, was charged today in a one-count indictment with illegal reentry by an alien previously removed.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Steven Edward Speer (28, Clearwater) to 90 years in federal prison for five counts of producing child pornography. The court also ordered him to forfeit a computer and cell phone that he had used to the commit the offenses. Speer pleaded guilty on June 24, 2014.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 30, 2014
News Release: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that USDA is investing $29 million to provide affordable housing for farm laborers and their families.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 30, 2014
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers arrested 62 criminal aliens, fugitives and other immigration violators in central and south Texas during a three-day multi-city enforcement operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2014
News Release: Tamika and Brandon Lee of Pontiac pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the government by submitting false claims for income tax refunds, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that yesterday Senior United States District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo has sentenced Thomas Ceprish, age 32, of Kingston, Pennsylvania, to 48 months’ imprisonment for distributing cocaine on numerous occasions between 2008 and April 2, 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 30, 2014
News Release: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley, R-IA, today made the following statement after the Department of Justice’s Inspector General released a report on the conduct of the Department of Justice (DOJ) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on Oct. 27, 2014, by U.S. Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2014
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in the Eastern District of New York charging Jeffrey I. Stark, Esq., with forgery of the signature of a judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York. Stark is alleged to have forged the signature of a judge on a purported...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2014
News Release: A 41-year-old Clarkston man was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for income tax evasion, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 30, 2014
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to participate in two free programs at Moccasin Bend National Archeological District on Saturday, November 8. Between 1 pm and 1:30 pm, visitors can meet and talk with a Union soldier at the base of Stringer's...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A former cancer research physician at Northwestern University’s Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Center for Cancer in Chicago will pay the United States $475,000 to settle claims of federal research grant fraud. Dr. Charles L. Bennett agreed to the settlement in a federal False Claims Act lawsuit that was first made public last year after the government investigated the claims made by a former employee and whistleblower who will receive a portion of the settlement.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Matthew C. Graziotti (43, Edgewater) today pleaded guilty to seven counts of production of child pornography, one count of distribution of child pornography, and one count of possession of child pornography involving children...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2014
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 DAYQUAN JACKSON, also known as “Quan" and “DaeDae," 26, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty yesterday...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD) today released the following statement regarding the Department of Education’s final gainful employment rule...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Northern District of Florida. Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014. Follow @NDFLNews. PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA- Eon L. Menckeberg, aka “Prince," 44, of Chipley, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on six counts of wire fraud, announced Pamela C. Marsh, United States...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 30, 2014
News Release: Representatives from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Sacramento State University will join over 200 'youth influencers' for the third annual Youth Summit "Connecting Youth to America's Great Outdoors."The summit is designed to connect youth to the outdoors, foster an appreciation and knowledge...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 30, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) today announced a new fee structure and pending new guarantee fee rates to be charged for coverage under the Commodity Credit Corporation’s Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102). The new guarantee fee rates will apply to applications for payment guarantees and amendment requests received on or after Friday, Oct. 31, 2014, 12:01 a.m. (EDT).
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 30, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today offered support to the Pacific Legal Foundation's petition for the Supreme Court to review a U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that undermines landowners and expands the federal government's ability to leverage the Clean Water Act against small businesses, compounding concerns with the controversial "waters of the United States" (WOTUS) rule.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Inglewood gang member was sentenced this afternoon to 57 months in federal prison for running an identity theft ring that victimized scores of individuals and merchants in three states, resulting in an estimated $1 million in financial losses.
