News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Colstrip, Montana, man convicted of Health Care Fraud was sentenced on Oct. 16, 2014, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Dante Beard, 33, of Henrico County was sentenced yesterday to four years in prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine. He is the 11th person sentenced as a result of a federal investigation of Henrico County cocaine dealers who were supplied by a dealer in North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Keith Gage, 43, of Middleboro, was sentenced yesterday for coercing and enticing a minor for the purpose of engaging in sexual intercourse. U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV sentenced Gage to 13 years in prison and five years of supervised release. Gage is also required to register as a sex offender, and must refrain from contact with his victim during the period of his incarceration and supervised release. In July 2014, Gage pleaded guilty.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: NIST scientists have pioneered a technology that may speed the arrival of long-awaited materials and devices including advanced high-temperature superconductors and high-efficiency photovoltaic cells: A new high-resolution X-ray spectrometer that was just installed at the Advanced Photon Source (APS), a large facility that produces the brightest synchrotron X-ray beams in the Western Hemisphere.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the selection of 43 organizations in 27 states for grants and loans to help create jobs and boost economic development activity in rural areas. The announcement culminates a week in which the department has been highlighting products that are Made In Rural America.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: At today’s House Oversight Committee hearing on Ebola, Ranking Member Elijah Cummings asked International Medical Corps’ Senior Vice President Rabih Torbay about the organization’s work combatting Ebola in Africa. Torbay testified that the organization needs three things: people to help with treatment and burying bodies, commodities like disinfectant and ambulances, and money for supplies to prevent infection and treatment beds.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Today, a federal grand jury indictment was unsealed charging MICHAEL DEAN BILLINGS, 59, an attorney from Oklahoma City, with conspiracy involving travel from Oklahoma City to Iquitos, Peru to engage in illicit sex with children, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Defendant Filmed Himself Sexually Abusing A Child Over A Two-Year Period.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Sergei Nicolaevich Tšurikov has been sentenced to eleven years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and computer intrusion for his involvement in an elaborate scheme which stole over $9.4 million from a credit card processor.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Timothy J. Coughlin, 63, of Indianapolis, Indiana, was sentenced today to 90 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for defrauding thousands of investors and impersonating an Internal Revenue Service official while operating a fictitious credit union for the purpose of soliciting online investments. He was also ordered to pay restitution of $10,084,625.56 to more than 3,500 victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Defendant Managed a “Cash-Out" Crew for Organization that Allegedly Capitalized on Information Hacked From Customers of More Than a Dozen Global Financial Institutions.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that charges were filed yesterday against Abraham D. Gordon, a resident of Shamokin, Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Charged Last Week in Similar Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: COLUMBIA, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney William N. Nettles, stated today that, earlier this week, two Aiken men, Jesse James Quarles, 33, and Kenneth Islar, 27, each entered guilty pleas in federal court in Columbia to the charge of felon in possession of a firearm, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Tyler Clements Will Serve 264 Months In Federal Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Creighton Goins Ordered To Repay $921,158 To Trinity Health.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: COLUMBUS, OHIO - Joseph P. Molnar, 50, of Chillicothe, Ohio, pleaded guilty one count of embezzlement from a financial institution and to one count of willfully filing a false federal income tax return with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Molnar faces a maximum prison term of 30 years and a fine of up to $1,000,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - After a lengthy investigation into drug trafficking in the Homewood section of the City of Pittsburgh and other communities in the Greater Pittsburgh area, 40 people have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, announced that three individuals were sentenced yesterday to serve over eighteen years in prison collectively for their involvement in an identity theft scheme. United States District Judge Robin...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced 14 awards for projects to bring broadband to unserved rural communities. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Utilities Service Administrator John Padalino made the announcement on the Secretary's behalf while addressing a regional meeting of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association in San Antonio.
