News from September 2014
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, a bipartisan group of members of Congress highlighted a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on federal agencies’ efforts to consolidate their data centers and achieve cost savings.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2014
News Release: A Miami man was arrested today on health care fraud and money laundering charges in connection with an alleged $24 million scheme to defraud Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Richard A. Lazzara today sentenced Gerald Robinson (41, Orlando) to ten years and one month in federal prison for conspiring with others to distribute cocaine. He pleaded guilty on May 30, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced Robert James Mercer (46, Tampa) to five years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The Court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $130,000, which represents the proceeds of the conspiracy. Mercer pleaded guilty on June 19, 2014. He was sentenced on Sept. 23, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Anthony Fields, 49, Phillip Bush, 53, and Yolanda Michelle Winston, 45, all of Chicago, Ill., were sentenced yesterday to federal prison terms for their convictions on fraud and conspiracy charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, Sept. 26, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ARACELYS PICHARDO, 26, of Jersey City, New Jersey, waived her right to indictment and pleaded guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident has been sentenced in federal court to three years of probation, six months home confinement, and 100 hours of community service, on his conviction of failing to file a report of currency received by a non-financial business, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal grand jury today indicted two men in unrelated child exploitation cases that both involved production of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr., and Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Raymond R. Parmer Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Nancy Cedeno, 40, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer, to conspiring to commit wire fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Louis Martin, age 51, of Waldorf, Maryland, today to 210 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for illegal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. A federal jury convicted Martin on April 9, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2014
News Release: PHOENIX - On Sept. 25, 2014, the final defendant was sentenced in connection with Operation Push the Pawn - an investigation of a Phoenix area drug rip crew conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Drug Enforcement Administration, Internal Revenue Service and the Phoenix...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2014
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Baldwin Nnamdi Chukweum Osuji, age 26, of Lanham, Maryland, today to 45 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and for aggravated identity theft. Judge Motz also ordered Osuji to pay restitution of $128,256.21.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2014
News Release: On Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014, the Bureau of Land Management, The Peregrine Fund and partners will release three California condors in the BLM-managed Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in Arizona. The location where the condors will be released is remote, so the BLM Arizona invites members of the public...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2014
News Release: Attempted Robbery Results In Death Of Relative.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Joshua Abeyta, 21, of Rio Rancho, N.M., pleaded guilty today to two bank robbery charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2014
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Nashville, Tennessee District Office and other DEA offices throughout Tennessee, are partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, to hold its ninth and final National Prescription...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Kenneth J. Enrico has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for posing as a mortgage broker to defraud over 300 borrowers nationwide out of $1.2 million in application fees for loans that he could not close.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - After deliberating eight hours, over two days, a federal jury of five men and seven women found Michael P. Bernick guilty of nine counts of misapplication of funds by a bank director, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
