News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Gerald Archuleta, 43, of Ojo Caliente, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to conspiracy and mail fraud charges arising out of a scheme to defraud the federal and state unemployment insurance system. His co-defendant, Jasonn Gonzales, 41, an accountant from Velarde, N.M., previously entered a guilty plea to the same charges, as well as an identity theft charge, in Aug. 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Brunswick, GA: Aaron Flores, 26, of El Paso, Texas, who was more recently stationed at Kings Bay, Georgia, was sentenced earlier this week by United States District Court Chief Judge Lisa Godbey Wood to over 17 years in prison, followed by 20 years of supervised release, for the Online Enticement of a Minor to Engage in Sexual Activity. He will also be required to register as a sex offender. Flores pled guilty to the crime on May 20, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Colorado Resident Howard Cahn, Who Tried to Save His Michigan Manufacturing Business by Selling Defective Machinegun Components to DoD in 2009, Convicted of Four Felonies.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Ten defendants charged in the 105 count indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - An Illinois lawyer and Internet radio talk show host was convicted today on federal charges for engaging in two mortgage fraud schemes that defrauded lenders of a total of approximately $9.7 million. The defendant, WARREN BALLENTINE, schemed with others to obtain more than two dozen fraudulent mortgage loans and represented buyers at multiple closings, knowing that they were fraudulently qualified for loans to purchase homes in Chicago and various southern suburbs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: On Hostage-Taking Charges in 2003 Capture of U.S. Citizens.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Oct. 23, 2014, Jennifer Robyn Whitmore-Meier, age 37, of Avon, Colorado, was sentenced by United States Chief District Court Judge James E. Gritzner to three years of probation, after pleading guilty to three counts of mail fraud, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Whitmore-Meier was also ordered to pay $300 to the Crime Victim Fund and restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: William B. Aossey, Jr., 73, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been charged with one count of conspiracy to make false statements, sell misbranded meat, and commit mail and wire fraud; seven counts of making or causing false statements to be made on export applications; seven counts of wire fraud; three counts...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A former Des Plaines man who solicited two undercover law enforcement officers to kill his estranged wife and her friends was sentenced today to 17 years and 7 months in federal prison. The defendant, ZENON GRZEGORCZYK, has been in federal custody since he was arrested and charged in May 2012, following an investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. He pleaded guilty this past July in U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: COLUMBUS, OHIO - Jeremy L. Wallace, 38, of Delaware, Ohio was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 180 months in prison and lifetime supervised release for producing child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Shanksville, Pa. -The National Park Service has completed a thorough inventory of the museum collection items lost in the fire that destroyed the Flight 93 National Memorial headquarters on October 3. The findings of the inventory, conducted with the assistance of museum professionals and archeologists...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: We live in an age where a savvy entrepreneur in Burlington or Omaha can create good jobs at a good profit by marketing a new idea or product through the Internet to a worldwide audience. Through an uninhibited flow of data, the Internet has truly empowered small and large businesses alike to fully participate in the global economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Veronica Fairchild, age 42, of Canistota, South Dakota, and Okaboji, Iowa, who was previously found guilty of four counts of tax fraud, was sentenced on Oct. 22, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: A Marion man was ordered to pay restitution and a fine and was sentenced to a term of probation following his conviction on a charge of making and causing a false statement on an annual statement regarding a company 401k plan, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Statesboro, GA: Stuart Powell Johnson, 52, of Statesboro, Georgia, was sentenced earlier this week by United States District Court Chief Judge Lisa Godbey Wood to 15 years in prison, followed by twenty years of supervised release, for soliciting images of child pornography over the Internet. He will be required to register as a sex offender. Johnson pled guilty to the crime on June 16, 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: We live in an age where a savvy entrepreneur in Burlington or Omaha can create good jobs at a good profit by marketing a new idea or product through the Internet to a worldwide audience. Through an uninhibited flow of data, the Internet has truly empowered small and large businesses alike to fully participate in the global economy.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Dear Ambassador Froman: Cross-border data flows power the twenty-first century global economy. American companies move data across the global Internet in order to provide digital goods and services to consumers around the world, as well as boost productivity, streamline operations, and facilitate creativity...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: In Bribery and Kickback Scheme. Defendant Accepted Over $490,000 in Benefits. From Companies He Helped Win Favorable Treatment and Government Contracts. WASHINGTON - In Seon Lim, a former contracting official for the U.S. Department of the Army, was sentenced today to four years in prison for his role...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: LITTLE ROCK - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Connor Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Tricia Harris and First Assistant United States Attorney (FAUSA)...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced the return of an indictment yesterday by a federal grand jury in Williamsport charging Phil Nguyen of Garden Grove, California, with aggravated identity theft, and related offenses, in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain luxury wrist watches from jewelry stores in State College, Pennsylvania, and in New York, New Jersey, and Nevada.
