News from September 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: The former head of a Cleveland-area anti-poverty agency pleaded guilty to accepting more than $23,000 in cash, home renovations and other things of value in exchange for steering work to specific contractors, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - John A. Crowe, 54, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today for distributing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Crowe will serve a prison term of ten years followed by a five-year term of supervised release. He will be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence. Crowe also was ordered to pay $500.00 in restitution to the victim depicted in the image at issue in the crime of conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced that James F. King, Sr., (age: 40), of Keshena, located on the Menominee Indian Reservation, in the State of Wisconsin, was sentenced on July 28, 2014, in United States District Court to 87 months of imprisonment, followed by a term of 10 years on supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: Today, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee John Conyers Jr. (MI-13), Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11) and Congressman Wm. Lacy Clay (MO-01) released the following joint statement after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced commencement of a separate, new civil rights “pattern and practice" investigation into the Ferguson, Missouri Police Department for possible discriminatory misconduct...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that in separate and unrelated cases, Amanda Elliott, 35, of Ellington, N.Y., and Tamara Elliott, 30, of Falconer, N.Y., who were convicted of misappropriation of postal service funds by postal service employee, were sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Vernon Mason Saulque, age 32, of Nespelem, Washington, was sentenced on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014, after having previously pleaded guilty on May 21, 2014, to four counts of Assault With a Dangerous...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement today after the Department of Health and Human Services reported that hackers infiltrated Healthcare.gov...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, chaired by U.S. Rep. Tom Petri (R-WI), will hold a hearing next week on the federal environmental review and permitting process for surface transportation infrastructure projects.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: Company owner sentenced to 30 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On September 4, 2014, Richard Walsh Curtis, 44 years, of Coos Bay, Oregon, was sentenced by U.S. District Chief Judge Ann Aiken to 27 months in federal prison for unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition. Upon his release from prison, Curtis will be on supervised release for three years.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: Upcoming Webinars. September 10: Live Webinar on Sandia Modeling Tool. Webinar Sponsors: Office of Indian Energy, Tribal Energy Program, and Western Area Power Administration. The Energy Department's Office of Indian Energy, Tribal Energy Program, and Western Area Power Administration will present the...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: ABILENE, Texas - A Trent, Texas, man appeared in federal court in Abilene, Texas, today and pleaded guilty, before U.S. Magistrate Judge E. Scott Frost, to a federal indictment charging one count of video voyeurism, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Mexican national Horacio Sierra Campos, 25, charging him with conspiracy to cultivate marijuana, cultivation of marijuana, and depredation of public lands and resources, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Jimmy Gil, 34, of Shafter, Jose Luis Montoya-Salazar, (Montoya), 42, of Mexico City, and Luis Ricardo Eslava-Corral (Eslava), 42, of Sinaloa, Mexico, charging them with conspiring to import, distribute, and possess with...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Richard Lara, 22, of Providence, R.I., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence yesterday to participating in a scheme in which personal identifying information of more than 1,200 individuals was stolen, many of which were used to file fraudulent tax returns with the IRS totaling more than $1.8 million dollars. Julian Balbi, 22, of Providence, a co-defendant in this matter, pleaded guilty on June 5, 2014, to participating in the scheme with Lara.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the filing of federal charges against individuals in 18 separate cases. These individuals have been charged with stealing more than $1 million in federal benefits to which they were not entitled. The penalty for stealing federal benefits...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today charging Steven Christopher Montes, 25, of Visalia, with three counts of sexual exploitation of minors, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Westmoreland County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: NEWARK N.J. - The former senior vice president of marketing at A&P, a U.S. supermarket and liquor store chain, was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud A&P by selling for personal gain event tickets that were intended for A&P’s use, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
