News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Guillermo Rincon (36, Miami) and Enrique Hernandez (34, Tampa) with one count of mortgage fraud conspiracy involving mail and bank fraud, and other related substantive charges. Each faces a maximum...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Federal, state and local law enforcement have arrested 23 individuals, including 35-year-old alleged ringleader George Alamillo of San Antonio, charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine in the Crystal City, La Pryor, Carrizo Springs and San Antonio areas announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - David Downing, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge, and Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Luis Garcia-Duenas, Victor Herrera-Perez, and Javier Lopez-Canseco were all sentenced today for drug-trafficking...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - David Barnhouse, 24, of Horsham, PA, was sentenced, on Oct. 16, 2014, to 18 months in prison for hacking into his neighbor’s wireless router and using it to post a bomb threat on the website of the Willow Grove Park Mall. As a result of Barnhouse’s actions, the mall paid for increased...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Kevin Gerard Wyche, age 27, of Baltimore, today to 10 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: A federal Grand Jury returned a one-count indictment charging Beverly Boyd, 57, a resident of Struthers, Ohio, with theft of government funds, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A 21-year-old Abilene, Texas, man appeared in federal court in Lubbock, Texas, this morning and pleaded guilty to a federal child pornography offense, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Oct. 17, 2014, Edwin James Goodwin, age 36, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 60 months imprisonment for conspiracy to distribute at least 100 kilograms of marijuana, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Goodwin was also ordered to serve four years of supervised release following the imprisonment and to pay $100 towards the Crime Victims Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - The former city clerk of Auburn, Kan., was sentenced Friday to one year and a day in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $189,500 in restitution, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Yousef Yafai, 31 of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara, to unauthorized acquisition of food stamp benefits. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a fine of $250,000or both.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Marking another milestone in the Administration’s support of clean energy technologies that will diversify our energy portfolio and help transition the U.S. toward a low-carbon future, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz will deliver remarks today at the grand opening of Abengoa’s second-generation...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: As part of the Obama Administration’s effort to cut energy waste and double energy productivity by 2030, the Energy Department today announced $10 million to support research, development and manufacturing of solid-state lighting (SSL) technologies across the country. This funding will accelerate the...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Hassan Hammoud, age 60, of Dundalk, Maryland, today to 63 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to destroy a conspirator’s Maryland home by fire to collect $3 million in insurance proceeds. Judge Bennett entered an order requiring Hammoud to pay restitution of $828,773.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Northern District of Florida. Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Follow @NDFLNews. TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - McKenzie Deshommes Francois, 22, of Miami, was sentenced yesterday afternoon to 61 months in prison based upon his guilty plea to charges of conspiring to file...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today launched its #RecordOfSuccess webpage, highlighting its bipartisan accomplishments in the 113th Congress to create jobs and spur economic growth, modernize government for the innovation era, and protect families, communities, and civic initiatives.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) issued the following statements regarding the president’s naming of Ron Klain as the Ebola Response Coordinator, commonly referred to as “Ebola czar."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, announces that yesterday in Washington, D.C. Attorney General Eric Holder presented 278 Justice Department employees and 10 individuals, including one Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of Florida with Attorney General Awards. These annual awards recognize department employees and other individuals for their dedication to carrying out the Department of Justice’s mission.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jay Chapman, 47, of Spencerport, N.Y., who was convicted of filing a false income tax return, was sentenced to five years probation and ordered to pay restitution totaling $111,078 by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO ― A Chicago investment advisor was convicted today of federal bank fraud charges for engaging in a scheme to defraud Oak Brook-based Leaders Bank and two of his clients of more than $3.2 million and ultimately causing the bank to lose more than $2.7 million. The defendant, ROBERT J. LUNN, was found guilty of five counts of bank fraud by a federal jury that began deliberating yesterday following a trial that began Oct. 7.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Luis Anibal Salazar Garcia, the primary money broker for a Colombian-based international money laundering organization, was sentenced today to 92 months in prison at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn. Ten co-defendants were sentenced last month to sentences ranging from 28 to 64 months’ imprisonment.
