News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: MOBILE, AL-- The United States Attorney, Kenyen R. Brown, announces that Kevin Marion was sentenced to thirty-six months imprisonment on Oct. 24, 2014 by United States District Court Judge William H. Steele, after pleading guilty to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine in violation of Title 21 USC '846. Marion’s co-defendant, David Henley, was sentenced in January. The case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - Local photographer Wayne Keene took on the challenge of capturing the sacred landscapes of Canyons of the Ancients National Monument through the lens of his camera as an Artist-In-Residence for the Bureau of Land Management. On Sunday, Nov. 2, he will showcase these images during a multimedia presentation at the Anasazi Heritage Center in Dolores at 1 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Eugene Lewandowski, age 27, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, today to 30 years in prison followed by lifetime supervised release for sexual exploitation of a minor to produce child pornography and for transportation of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Franklin man pleaded guilty to charges that he downloaded and stored images of child pornography on a hard drive.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Lamonte X. Smith, age 30, of Accokeek, Maryland, today to 92 months in prison followed by six years of supervised release for conspiring to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft arising from a scheme in which, while he was incarcerated...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A former teacher with the Santa Ana School District has been charged with traveling to the Philippines to engage in sex with an underage girl and producing a video of the encounter.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Jefferson City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to the attempted sex trafficking of a child as the result of an undercover investigation in which...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A school custodian who sexually abused a child over a period of several years and uploaded visual images of the molestations to the Internet has been sentenced to 276 months in federal prison for his conviction on child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom will speak on the fifth anniversary of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crime Prevention Act Wednesday, Oct. 29, at Wichita State University.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) agronomist in North Carolina has used an imaging technique he developed to uncover fresh details about what happens to oats when they freeze. The work by David P. Livingston, who is with the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Raleigh, has implications for growers.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: House Republicans today released a new video highlighting key events in the IRS targeting scandal and efforts led jointly by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee to investigate wrongdoing, overcome administration stonewalling, and ensure that the IRS never again repeats this abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles announced today that Juan Manuel Hernandez, age 39, and Arturo Mendez-Gomez, age 27, pled guilty to Conspiring to Interfere with Interstate Commerce by Robbery and two counts of Brandishing, Carrying, Using, and Possessing a Firearm in...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Bluefield, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Senior United States District Judge David A. Faber sentenced a federal inmate for possessing a weapon in the Federal Correctional Institution at McDowell. Antonio Uribe Quintero, 36, was sentenced to 30 additional months in...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Jose Santos Gallegos, 55, of Angleton, has been ordered to federal prison for 429 months following his guilty plea for trafficking methamphetamine in and through the Houston, Texas area from 2010 to 2012, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Suit Alleges Computer Sciences Corp. And New York City Systematically Submitted Tens Of Thousands Of Claims To Medicaid Without Exhausting Private Insurance Coverage And Also Switched Diagnosis Codes In Tens Of Thousands Of Medicaid Claims To Get Those.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Wesley Burnett, age 54, of Hermosa Beach, California, pleaded guilty on Oct. 24, 2014, to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain more than $2.8 million in federal government contracts through the use of the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) program, designed to assist disadvantaged businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - Sandy Wade Parsons was found guilty of forty-three federal fraud charges, announced Ripley Rand, United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina. He will be sentenced by United States District Judge Thomas D. Schroeder in Winston-Salem on Feb. 18, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Former Boeing Procurement Officer DEON ANDERSON was sentenced to 20 months in prison in connection with a bribery/kickback scheme involving Boeing military aircraft parts, as well as structuring currency transactions to conceal his receipt of the cash bribes. Co-defendants WILLIAM P.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Rondell Scott Hedrick (48, Lexington, N.C.) guilty of wire fraud. Hedrick faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. He was indicted on Dec. 18, 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Dear Chair White: We write to strongly encourage the Commission to enforce its regulations protecting corporate whistleblowers and ensure that this Dodd-Frank Act program will continue to be a success in the years to come. In particular, we are concerned about reports that some corporate practices may...
