News from September 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: COLUMBUS - The Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Cincinnati Field Division, announced today that they will conduct an independent review of the facts and circumstances...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: ANCHORAGE - The BLM-Alaska Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will meet at the Office of Aviation Services located at 4405 Lear Court, Anchorage, Alaska. The meeting starts at 9:00 a.m. on both September 29 & 30 in training room #109. The council will accept comments from the public on Monday, September 29 from 3:10-4:00 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Mary Moran, 51, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute fentanyl, was sentenced to one year in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina - United States Attorney Bill Nettles announced today that Horance Antonio Taylor, a/k/a “Bloody Horace," (24) of Columbia was sentenced to fourteen years in prison for dealing drugs and using firearms in connection with his drug dealing.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that MICHAEL A. LUCARELLI, the former Director of Market Intelligence at Lippert/Heilshorn & Associates, Inc. (“LHA"), an investor relations firm, pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to insider trading.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On Sept. 24, 2014, Anthony Long, 42, of Chatsworth, Ga., was sentenced to serve 168 months in prison by the Honorable Harry S. Mattice Jr., U.S. District Judge. Long pleaded guilty in May 2014 to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Upon his release from prison, he will be subject to three years of supervised release by the U.S. Probation Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Sept. 18, 2014, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 30 defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. Today DEA and ATF agents and officers of the Puerto Rico Police (PRPD), executed the arrest warrants.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A federal grand jury today indicted the former chief executive officer of an Orange County medical device and eye care company on insider trading charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident was sentenced in federal court today in connection with his plea of guilty to filing a false income tax return, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: National Park ServiceNews Release. -Sept. 24, 2014. Caleb Kesler, Chief Ranger, MOCA/TUZI, 928-567-3322 x227. Montezuma Castle to Host Weekly Native American Flute Circles Beginning October 5. CAMP VERDE, Ariz. -Beginning Sunday, October 5, the National Park Service will partner with Western National...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 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 Jeffrey Emil Groover, 53, formerly of Delray Beach, was sentenced today before U.S. District Judge Dimitrouleas to 13 years and seven months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today the sentencing of the former Director of the Bureau of Auditing and Compliance Services for the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - Edward L. Stanton III, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, and Christopher A. Henry, Special Agent in Charge, IRS-Criminal Investigation, announced today that Cheryl Wright, 30, of Memphis, Tenn., was sentenced by United States District Judge John T. Fowlkes, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - David Downing, Assistant Special Agent in Charge with the Drug Enforcement (DEA), and Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas; along with 20th Judicial Prosecuting Attorney Cody Hiland; and Van Buren County Sheriff Scott Bradley announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Son Thach, 55, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones III to conspiracy to defraud the IRS of approximately $1 million in employment taxes between 2006 and 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite announced that ANDREA BIRDOW, 22, of Sherman, Texas, pleaded guilty today to conspiring with her boyfriend, TAUREAN JACKSON, to trafficking of a minor from the Dallas, Texas-area into the New Orleans area for the purposes of that minor engaging in prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - A national of Eritrea and citizen of the United Kingdom pled guilty today to smuggling undocumented immigrants from Eritrea and Ethiopia into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that MICHAEL LYNN CARTER, age 61, of Madill, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 96 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release for Possession of Certain Material Involving the Sexual Exploitation of Minors, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2252(a)(4)(B) and 2252(b)(2).
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: CELEBRATE NATIONAL PUBLIC LANDS DAY, SEPT 27.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined seven House and Senate Democrats in releasing a new report that found that hundreds of tobacco advertisements and images glorifying smoking and e-cigarettes appear in magazines with large teen readerships.
