News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Defendants Harvey Christian And Anthony Christian Led Violent Narcotics Trafficking Enterprise In New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 47-year-old Kidder Township man pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik to producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the former director of information technology for Clarkson Construction Company pleaded guilty in federal court today to a mail fraud scheme in which he embezzled nearly $300,000 from the company.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A veteran federal prosecutor rejoined the U.S. Attorney’s Office today as the second-ranking official and will succeed the office’s longest-serving prosecutor upon his retirement early next month. Zachary T. Fardon, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, announced the...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: A Detroit man was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison on Oct. 24, 2014, for criminal violations of the Clean Air Act, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A man pleaded guilty Monday to stealing public funds from the Army’s family and morale fund at Ft. Riley, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Reps. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Jackie Speier (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health Care, and Entitlements, responded to a new report released by the U.S. Department of...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that RAYMOND CHRISTOPHER REGGIE, age 52, of Mandeville, Louisiana, pled guilty this morning before U.S. District Judge Shelly D. Dick to all five counts of mail fraud charged against him. REGGIE had been scheduled for trial today and...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: HONOLULU - Kevin Lam, age 43, a resident of Oahu, pled guilty to eight charges of operating a commercial fishing vessel in a grossly negligent manner on Friday, Oct. 24, and received a sentence of one-year probation and 60 hours of community service from Magistrate Judge Barry M. Kurren. The offenses...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -Timothy Brian Werlhof, 24, of Oakdale, pleaded guilty today to possession of material involving the sexual exploitation of prepubescent minors, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Monday, Oct. 27, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Erick Roman, 38, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois, appeared today for arraignment in United States District Court in Benton on an indictment charging him...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - Edward L. Stanton III, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced today that Brashard Gibbs, age 21, of Memphis, TN, was sentenced on Friday by U.S. District Judge Sheryl H. Lipman to serve 20 years, or 240 months, in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal prison system.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man was sentenced today for his participation in a conspiracy to distribute heroin in Huntington, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Jakaiser Wesley Jackson, 21, who previously pleaded guilty in July of 2014 to conspiring to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, was sentenced to three years and one month in federal prison. United States Chief District Judge Robert C. Chambers imposed today’s sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
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), Paula Reid, Special Agent in Charge, United States Secret Service (USSS), Miami Field Office, and J. Scott Dennis, Chief...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A New Bedford man was sentenced today for hacking into computer networks around the country, including networks belonging to law enforcement agencies and a local college.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Nicholas Pislowski, 26, of Johnston, was sentenced on Friday to 18 months in federal prison for possessing more than 2,000 images of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Colonel Steven G. O’DonnellSuperintendent of the Rhode Island State Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Ashish Sanon (51, Lecanto) pleaded guilty today to visa fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set. Sanon has also agreed to forfeit assets, which specifically includes, but is not limited to, a money judgment in the amount of $250,000, representing the proceeds he obtained as a result of his offense.
