News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Justin Chee, 24, a member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Kirtland, N.M., was sentenced this morning to 30 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for his statutory rape conviction. Chee will be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas man who attempted to rob a bank in Carrollton, Texas, last summer, and who led police on a vehicular chase, wrecked that vehicle and then entered a store to avoid apprehension, was sentenced this morning in federal court in Dallas, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Middletown, Conn. man appeared today in federal court on charges related to a scheme to defraud the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Connecticut of millions of dollars in tobacco tax revenue.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Monty Stokes, Special Agent in Charge, United States Department of Veteran Affairs, Office of Inspector General (VA-OIG), announce the charges filed against Timothy Rouch, 47, Port St. Lucie, the former Chief of Prosthetics...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Milton man was sentenced late yesterday in federal court on bank and wire fraud charges in connection with a property flipping program which involved sham purchasers buying multiple properties which were ultimately the subject of foreclosure.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Kelly R. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce that Jacqueline...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A plastic surgeon with a practice in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, has surrendered to face charges that he fraudulently diverted millions in corporate earnings for his personal use, costing the United States nearly $3 million in tax revenue, U.S Attorney Paul Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - The former owner of Hampton Pipe and Tobacco, Jayson Mickle, along with nine others, were arrested yesterday and charged in a multi-count indictment relating to the distribution of controlled substance analogues, aka “Spice," among other charges.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: SALEM, MA - Join the Essex county sailing community as we mark the end of the sailing season with Salem's first annual Downrigging Weekend on November 1-2nd, 2014. The two-day event features half-price public sails on the schooners THOMAS LANNON, ARDELLE, and FAME and downrigging demonstrations aboard...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: South Bend, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By EPA 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 DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Worked as ‘Casher’ for Organization that Allegedly Capitalized on.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha, South Kingstown Police Chief Vincent Vespia, Jr. and Narragansett Police Chief Dean F. Hoxsie announced that Damon Graham, 34, formerly...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder recognized 278 department employees earlier this week, including six from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, for their distinguished public service at the 62nd Annual Attorney General’s Awards Ceremony. Held Wednesday at DAR Constitution Hall, this annual ceremony recognized both department employees and others for their outstanding dedication to carrying out the Department of Justice’s missions.
By DOE 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: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Rafael Cantin-Echevarria, 36, a citizen of Cuba who had been living in Stafford, Virginia, was sentenced on Oct. 15, 2014 to serve 70 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for illegally reentering the United States following removal by Senior United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
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 Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Superintendent John J. Donahue announced today that the park will host the annual "Octivites"program at Millbrook Village on the New Jersey side of the park on Saturday, Oct. 25, beginning at 10:00 am and continuing until 3:00 pm.
