News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the filing of a five-count Indictment in White Plains federal court charging STEPHEN P. BROWN with sexually exploiting a boy in Sullivan County, New York, in 2012 and with attempted sexual exploitation, attempted enticement, and the distribution and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Two Detroit man were sentenced today for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute heroin in Huntington in 2013 and 2014, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Christopher Lamarr-Shawn Harris, also known as “C" and “Caesar," 28, who previously pleaded guilty in July of 2014 to conspiring...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Energy and Commerce Committee’s bipartisan 21st Century Cures initiative maintains momentum this month as members continue hosting roundtables in their home states. Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) is hosting an event in Kalamazoo, Michigan, tomorrow, Tuesday, October 7, 2014, and Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) will host an event Thursday, October 9, 2014, in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Istvan Merchenthaler, 44, of Downingtown, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to all counts in four pending indictments charging him with wire fraud, possession of destructive devices, and related offenses, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Merchenthaler has been in federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez announced that last week the Justice Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) awarded a hiring grant to the Farmington Police Department aimed at creating six law enforcement positions to help reduce violence and address other critical law enforcement needs in Farmington, N.M. Nearly $124 million in grants were awarded nationally, including the $750,000 grant for the Farmington Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: A citizen and resident of Costa Rica pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to smuggle more than 25 undocumented immigrants to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: Aileen Gong, D.P.M., 55, of King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, was charged by indictment, on Oct. 3, 2014, with health care fraud, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment charges that between 2009 and February 2014, Gong, a podiatrist, submitted at least $480,000 in fraudulent claims to Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man pleaded guilty today in Federal Court to bank robbery. PEDRO J. CORDERO, 52, of Rockford, Ill., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to the robbery of BMO Harris Bank, N.A., 2510 S. Alpine Rd., Rockford, Ill., on July 12, 2014. Cordero also admitted to robbing two other local banks.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was sentenced Monday to 57 months in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to federal bank fraud charges in connection with a plan to build an apartment complex in Junction City, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court, before United States Magistrate Judge Kimberly A. Swank, ALEXANDER SWIM, 25, of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, entered a guilty plea to the theft of fuel from Forward Operating Base (FOB) Sharana, Afghanistan in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 641 and 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: Transmitted More Than $150 Million Of Questionable Origins To And From USA.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: The projects, to be funded at approximately $17 million over the next five years, subject to the availability of funds, will demonstrate how a national operational marine biodiversity observation network could be developed. Such a network would serve as a marine resource management tool to conserve existing biodiversity and enhance U.S. biosecurity against threats such as invasive species and infectious agents.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of Michigan is handling criminal cases involving various individuals in connection with their employment at Kentwood Pharmacy. Kentwood Pharmacy serviced nursing homes, adult foster care homes, and other long term care facilities until November of 2010. Kentwood Pharmacy also operated retail pharmacies in Grand Rapids (formerly Eastgate Pharmacy), Shepard, Alma, and St. Louis, Michigan.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell sentenced Mohamad Abduljaber, 50, of Okemos, Michigan to three and a half years of imprisonment on charges of receipt of health care kickback payments and falsifying an income tax return, U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: IN NASHUA-BASED NATIONWIDE TAX RETURN SCAM.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Saul Candelorio Gastellum-Sanchez, a local illegal drug dealer, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Lloyd D. George to 15 years in prison and five years of supervised release, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai‘i -Protect the Hawaiian ecosystem from invasive, non-native plant species by volunteering for “Stewardship at the Summit" programs in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell sentenced Mohamad Abduljaber, 50, of Okemos, Michigan to three and a half years of imprisonment on charges of receipt of health care kickback payments and falsifying an income tax return, U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A federal jury convicted a brother and sister and one other person today for conspiring to defraud financial institutions as part of a $15 million mortgage fraud scam that used phony documents and “straw buyers" to make illegal profits on overbuilt condos, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
