News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced that DAVID POST pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to one count of conspiracy...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is providing more than $352 million in loans and grants to upgrade rural water and wastewater systems nationwide and make infrastructure improvements in rural Alaska Villages. The projects funded will not only help ensure rural places have access to clean water, but will also create jobs and help communities retain and attract new businesses and families.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Distribution of Child Pornography and Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Thomas Caul, Special Agent in Charge, Social Security Administration (SSA), Office of Inspector General (OIG), and Kelly R. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announce...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) released the following statement marking the 20th anniversary of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) this week. The law, championed by Harkin and Senator Orin Hatch (R-UT), aimed to help the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) protect consumers from unsafe dietary supplements and boost FDA’s accountability.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Charges Include SNAP (food stamp) Fraud, Tax Fraud, and Sale of Counterfeit Goods.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Texan pleaded guilty Thursday to trying to lure a minor into producing a sex video.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that DAVID LEWIS McDOWELL, age 52, of Riverside, California was sentenced to 51 months imprisonment for Money Laundering, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1957. McDOWELL was also ordered to pay approximately $2,500,000.00 in restitution and to forfeit $3,000,000.00 in assets.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: COLUMBUS, OHIO - Richard Roman, 42, of Pataskala, Ohio was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 144 months in prison and 20 years supervised release for attempting to engage in unlawful sexual activity with a minor.
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: FORT WORTH, Texas - A federal jury in Fort Worth, Texas, has convicted a husband and wife on multiple felony offenses stemming from their operation of a tax return preparation business in Tarrant County, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas. The trial began Monday morning before U.S. District Judge John McBryde.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: ARLINGTON, VA. - Brendan Johnson, U.S. Attorney for the District of South Dakota, has been named a 2014 Pathbreaker Award recipient for his determined leadership in combatting child sex trafficking.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the latest confirmed case of Ebola in the United States, a doctor in New York who recently returned from Guinea where he had treated patients for Doctors Without Borders. A group of...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Lester Keith Gunter, a/k/a “Gunner," 45, of Hazelwood, North Carolina, was sentenced today to 262 months in prison, followed by eight years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles area physician pleaded not guilty to federal drug trafficking charges that allege he illegally distributed drugs, to include the powerful and addictive painkiller oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI- District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez sentenced Hector Mejia-Patino, 26, of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, on Oct. 23, 2014, to 67 months of incarceration, five years of supervised release, and a $100 special monetary assessment announced United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Vito Guarino.
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: LUBBOCK, Texas - A 52-year-old League City, Texas, man appeared in federal court in Lubbock, Texas, this morning and pleaded guilty to a federal child obscenity offense, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
