News from September 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, September 4, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LYNN A. SCHEUFLER, 36, formerly of Woodstock, Conn., and currently residing in Vermont, was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Jasper County, Mo., man who contacted a child victim on Facebook pleaded guilty in federal court today to producing child pornography. Ian Holman, 33, of Jasper County...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: The owner and office manager of Shorts Electric, an Odessa company the provided oilfield and residential electric services, are in federal custody charged in connection with an estimated $400,000 bank fraud scheme announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, Special Agent in Charge Laurie L. Younger, FDIC Office of Inspector General, Dallas Region, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist, El Paso Division.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a statement following reports of a cyber breach on the Department of Health and Human Services’ Healthcare.gov website...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: Yaser Khalil Masso, 71, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today to 21 months in prison and was ordered to pay $429,070 in restitution, including interest to the IRS for under-reporting the income that he earned from his detective agency. Masso filed materially false tax returns for tax years 2006 through...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI- Nyah Henry, 25, of St. Thomas was arrested Wednesday for possession of cocaine and marijuana with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of the Ivanna Eudora Kean High School, announced United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe. Henry appeared today in United States District Court before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller and was released on conditions, including a $25,000 unsecured bond.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Sept. 4, 2014, Wendi Henry, 45, of Blount County was sentenced to serve 216 months in prison by the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, Chief U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A federal jury returned guilty verdicts today against former Virginia Governor Robert F. McDonnell and former First Lady Maureen G. McDonnell for participating in a scheme to violate federal public corruption laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: TULSA, Okla - The results of the September 2014 Federal Grand Jury were announced today by Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: Had Been Removed Five Times. ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jesus Vasquez-Loyola (28, of Valatie, NY) was sentenced today to serve 14 months in prison by Chief United States District Court Judge Gary L. Sharpe announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Andres Salinas, 19, of Albuquerque, N.M., was arrested yesterday by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) on federal child pornography charges. Salinas made his initial appearance in federal court earlier today, and remains in custody pending a detention hearing scheduled for tomorrow morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Edward Alan Vadney (23, Winter Haven) pleaded guilty today to attempted sexual enticement of a minor. Vadney faces a mandatory minimum of 10 years, up to a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. He also faces a mandatory minimum...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former FBI special agent and his wife today admitted colluding to hide her income as part-owner of a retail pharmacy in Piscataway, New Jersey, from the Internal Revenue Service - instead using the cash to pay for home renovations and other personal expenses, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: - Formerly convicted of facilitation to murder, promoting contraband and trafficking in a controlled substance.
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: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Gooding Vincent, 38, of Syracuse, NY, and Eugene Cooper, 38, of Buffalo, NY, who were convicted of using paper as money, were sentenced to two years probation by Magistrate Judge H. Kenneth Schroeder, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated Chief Judge Christina Reiss, of the United States District Court, sentenced Terrence Chenault (a.k.a. “Stucky"), 31, of Rutland, Vermont to 87 months imprisonment for conspiring to distribute heroin and crack cocaine in the Rutland...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: On Friday, August 15th, Kenai Fjords National Park staff received numerous reports that water from Bear Glacier Lagoon had breached the moraine separating the lagoon from the mouth of Resurrection Bay, also referred to as the Harding Gateway. Subsequent reports indicated that water levels peaked in the...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: BILLINGS - A 22-year-old Billings man was sentenced today for breaking into Walgreens and stealing hundreds of prescription pills. Travis John Bell was sentencing in connection with his April guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute oxycodone. Bell was sentenced to 48 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release. In addition, Bell was ordered to pay $19,997.75 in restitution to Walgreens.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Georgia man pleaded guilty in federal court today to a wire fraud scheme in which he used the identity information of deceased persons to obtain more than $2.3 million in tax refunds from several states.
