News from September 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LANDERS WILSON, 43, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A 51-year-old Brockton man who stabbed and killed a 21-year-old on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation was sentenced to more than 17 years in federal prison. Great Falls United States District Court Brian Morris sentenced David Lewis, to 210 months in prison, followed by a term of 5 years supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has indicted Philip A. Ruiz, 24, of Lockport, NY, on a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000. Assistant U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: HELENA-Assistant United States Attorney Joseph E. Thaggard was inducted today in London, England, into the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers. Thaggard was inducted during the group's annual meeting, which was held in London this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce that husband and wife Richard S. Krugman, 61, and Tamara B. Giordano, 53, of Palm Beach County, were charged today with bankruptcy fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 152(1).
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: Consider that one-third of the land in America is ours-public land where we can all hike, bike, climb, swim, explore, picnic or just plain relax. There is a special joy in getting our hands dirty when it helps keep our land beautiful. National Public Lands Day is an opportunity to spruce up these lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON-The Department of Justice announced today that it filed a motion to show cause why Bayer Corporation should not be held in civil contempt for violating a court order in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The court order, entered in 2007 in United States v. Bayer Corporation...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: Families and individuals of all ages are invited to the Paradise area of Mount Rainier National Park for a special "star viewing party" on Saturday September 20. The event starts at 9:30 PM in the plaza in front of the Jackson Visitor Center at Paradise. If the sky remains clear, the event will last...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: Urbana, Ill. -- Five men who were arrested yesterday on gun charges made their initial court appearances this afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge David G. Bernthal, as announced by U.S. Attorney Jim Lewis, Central District of Illinois. A federal grand jury returned the indictments earlier this week but the charges remained sealed pending their arrests and court appearances.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Nathaniel A. McNeil, 46, of Pensacola, Florida, was sentenced today to 68 months in prison, followed by a three year termof supervised release, for engaging in a life insurance scheme with at least 1,249 victims. McNeil was also ordered to pay $32,835 in restitution to identified victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Donnell Young, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announce that defendant Stevens Nore, 33, of Port Saint Lucie, was sentenced today before U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra to 84 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $2,761,397 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has indicted Philip A. Ruiz, 24, of Lockport, NY, on a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: On Saturday, September 6, Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area held its annual Volunteer and Partner Appreciation Luncheon at the Montague Grange Hall #140 in Montague, NJ. "We are very grateful for all of the work accomplished by our volunteers and partner organizations. There are just some things the park would not be able to do without their valuable knowledge and assistance," said Superintendent John J. Donahue of the volunteer corps.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. On Sept. 11, 2014, Rusty J. Smith, 35, of Cobden, Illinois, pled guilty to a one-count indictment charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, the United States Attorney...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: BALTIMORE -The signature event of the weeklong Star-Spangled 200th Anniversary will commence "by dawn's early light," promptly Sunday at 8:30 a.m., with a 100-round artillery barrage by the Third U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) signifying the conclusion of the 25-hour bombardment of Fort McHenry on Sept. 14, 1814. As the gun smoke clears, the 30-by-42 Star-Spangled Banner will be raised over Fort McHenry, unfurling its glorious colors to the city of Baltimore.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: CDAYTON, OHIO - Neil Richard Moore, 59, of Trotwood, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to one count of assault with a dangerous weapon. Moore admitted to shooting an individual at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Dayton on May 5, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Claudius Kai Kpakima, 35 of Silver Spring, Md., was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for a federal offense stemming from the embezzlement of more than $245,000 from his employer, a visa processing company, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Andrew G. McCabe, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Bryan Porter, Commonwealth’s Attorney for the City of Alexandria, Va.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: FAIR HAVEN, Vt. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, and the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Ras Foster, 25, of Brooklyn, New York and Keisha Richards, 21, of Fair Haven, Vermont have...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Deandre Shaheed, 19, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison after earlier pleading guilty to second-degree murder while armed in the slaying of a man who was on his way home from work, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
