News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: A federal indictment was filed charging Christopher L. Gattarello and another Cleveland man with violating the Clean Air Act by failing to remove asbestos prior to demolishing a former factory in Cleveland, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 61-year-old Port Arthur, Texas woman has been charged for her role in the SYAM Tax Service Scheme in the Eastern district of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Francisco R. Legaspi was sentenced today to 21 months for aiding and assisting in the preparation and presentation of false tax returns and for failing to appear for his sentencing on the tax charges originally scheduled to take place on Jan. 28, 1993, U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag and IRS-CI Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Derrick Jackson, Acting Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Six residents of Eddy County, N.M., were sentenced yesterday afternoon and this morning by a federal judge in Las Cruces, N.M., to prison terms for violating the Hobbs Act by robbing businesses engaged in interstate commerce, announced U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, 5th Judicial District...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that JD Rodriguez Produce Inc. satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Graviel Santos, 32, of Pawtucket, was sentenced on Wednesday to 84 months in federal prison on drug trafficking and firearm charges, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Pawtucket Police Chief Paul King.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James S. Moody, Jr. has sentenced Jerry St. Fleur (26, Tampa) to four years and three months in federal prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. The Court also ordered him to forfeit $61,704, which is traceable to proceeds of the offense. He pleaded guilty on July 9, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Brian K. Lee, 40, of Gulfport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to thirty-four months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for mail fraud in connection with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today. Lee was also ordered to pay a $2,500.00 fine and restitution in the amount of $47,083.76.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: Washington - A former deputy director of the Arkansas Department of Human Services (ADHS), a multi-billion dollar state agency, pleaded guilty today for providing official assistance in exchange for bribes from the owner of two mental health companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Qiana Govan (a.k.a. “Missy"), 25, of Rutland, Vermont, and formerly of Brooklyn, New York, has been charged by Indictment with three counts of distributing crack cocaine in Rutland, Vermont in May 2014. Govan pled not guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge John Conroy and was released on conditions pending trial as she has no prior criminal record.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service is now accepting applications for Commercial Use Authorizations to conduct water based commercial activities at Buffalo National River. Approved water based commercial activities include guided fishing and sightseeing conducted by jon boat or drift boat.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that BRITTANY BAUER, age 23, of Huntsville, Alabama, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to possess and transport stolen firearms in interstate commerce and transportation of stolen firearms in interstate commerce. A five-count superseding indictment was returned...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Michael Roberts, a/k/a “Spook," age 27, of Elkton, Maryland today to 10 years in prison followed by four years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that late yesterday, a federal jury found James Patrick Baker (33, Tampa) guilty of attempting to induce a child to engage in sex acts. He faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for Jan. 15, 2015. Baker was indicted on May 22, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury today indicted the owner of an Orange County manufacturing business on a federal charge related to the illegal manufacture and sale of lower receivers for AR-15-type rifles, as well as completed firearms.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) highlighted the month of October as Cyber Security Awareness Month.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement on the Bureau of Land Management’s plan to hold an oil and natural gas lease sale next month in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve:
