News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Richard.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: The Energy Department, in coordination with the Navy, today announced funding for two companies that will continue to advance marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) technology as a viable source for America’s clean energy future. Ocean Energy USA and Northwest Energy Innovations will test their innovative wave energy conversion (WEC) devices for one year in new deep water test berths at the Navy’s Wave Energy Test Site (WETS) off the waters of Marine Corps Base Hawaii.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Yesterday, two Montgomery men were sentenced for their roles in a tax refund scheme, announced U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. for the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Jeremy Smith, 37, of Petersburg, New York, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Burlington to 12 months plus one day of imprisonment following his guilty plea to a charge that travelled in interstate...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - Richard Gene Stephens, 43, of Linn County, Oregon, appeared before United States District Court Chief Judge Ann Aiken in Eugene yesterday and was sentenced to 15 years in prison for being an armed career criminal and for possessing a revolver that had been stolen during a burglary of a home by another felon, Mitchell Wayne Brolin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: SAN JOSE - Maxito Pean was indicted by a federal grand jury today for stealing money through an email takeover scam and laundering those funds by “layering" them through multiple accounts, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Acting Special Agent in Charge Thomas McMahon, and Santa Clara County Regional Enforcement Allied Computer Team Task Force (REACT) Project Director Michael Sterner.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin filed an information in federal court in Charleston today against Russell R. Grimmett, also known as Rick Grimmett, for violating federal banking laws. Banks are required by federal law to report all cash transactions in excess of $10,000. Grimmett...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former Trooper with the Ohio State Highway Patrol pleaded guilty today in Columbus, Ohio, to four counts of violating the civil rights of female motorists and one count of engaging in cyber stalking.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 27-year-old Grand Saline, Texas, man has been sentenced to federal prison for federal firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JAIME JAUREGUI, age 36, of Orlando, Florida, was convicted today after a 2 ½ day jury trial. The jury returned a verdict of guilty as charged on both counts of the superseding indictment which charged JAUREGUI with conspiracy to violate the Gun Control and National Firearms Acts (18 U.S.C. § 371) and possession of unregistered firearms (26 U.S.C. § 5861(d)).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - EBI LLC (d/b/a Biomet Spine and Bone Healing Technologies) and Biomet Inc. have paid $6.07 million to resolve allegations that EBI violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to induce use of its bone growth stimulators and billing federal health care programs for refurbished stimulators...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: Defendant Under the Influence of a Controlled Substance While Illegally Possessing a Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Leroy Malcolm, 45, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of passport application fraud, was sentenced to two years of probation by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: Florence, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Don Carlos Gibson, Jr., age 46, of Church Hill, Tennessee and formally of Florence, South Carolina, has entered a guilty plea in federal court in Florence, to Theft of Government Funds, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 641.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: In the continuing efforts of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) to fight cybercrime and child pornography, HSI Seoul Regional Attaché Taekuk Cho took part in a press conference Oct. 30 with the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency (SMPA) announcing the signing of the Letter of Intent (LOI).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Thomas O'Donnell, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General’s (“HHS-OIG") New York Region, announced today that the United States has obtained a temporary...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Heriberto Almonte-Reyes, the last of nineteen defendants in a large-scale money laundering organization, has been sentenced for his part in a conspiracy that laundered drug proceeds from Mexico, Australia, England, Spain, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Guatemala, Miami, New York, and Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Janaya Brittne Person-Robinson, age 20, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 84 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for an armed bank robbery in which her accomplice forced a teller at gunpoint to accompany him and open the bank vault.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced that Shaun Andrew Copenhaver (29, Jacksonville) yesterday pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography over the Internet. He faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 5 years, up to 20 years, in federal prison, and a potential life term of supervision. Copenhaver has been in custody since his arrest on February 6, 2014. A sentencing hearing has not yet been set.
