News from September 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Washington County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of wire fraud and filing false tax returns, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An Irvine man has been sentenced to serve 15 months in federal prison for selling stolen hospital supplies over the Internet, including on eBay and Alibaba.com.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: National Parks Travelers Club Flat Hat Award.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Wire Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault by Strangulation and Suffocation, Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, and Assault Resulting in Substantial Bodily Injury to an Intimate Partner.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. -A Ville Platte man was sentenced last week to 105 months in prison for participating in the armed robbery of a St. Landry Parish casino and truck stop, U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The owner of a New Jersey-based insurance adjusting company today admitted his role in a scheme to defraud the New Jersey Turnpike Authority (NJTA) and various insurance companies of at least $900,000, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - An Ohio man who distributed heroin in Parkersburg, West Virginia in 2013 was sentenced today to seven years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Booth Goodwin. Marion Alonvo Felder, 30, of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, previously pleaded guilty in May of 2014 to distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Edward Brown, 51, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to bank robbery before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By State Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on military action against ISIL targets in Syria...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a man and a woman from Minneapolis, Minnesota, have been indicted by a federal grand jury for Sex Trafficking by Force, Fraud and Coercion.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: LEXINGTON, KY -A former Lexington attorney was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for wire fraud, mail fraud, tax fraud, obstruction of justice, and distribution of synthetic marijuana.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: A lightning strike ignited the Redwood Fire after storms moved through the area on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014. The 2-3 acre fire is located west of Big Baldy, near the Redwood Mountain Grove, at approximately 6,000 feet in elevation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: Woman Embezzled More Than $370,000 from Local Credit Union.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rep. Sandy Levin and Sen. Carl Levin, both D-Mich., authors of legislation to close the corporate inversion tax loophole, today welcomed the Treasury Department’s announcement of rules changes to address inversions...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. sentenced Liliam Patricia Urbina (46, Sanford) today to one year in federal prison for embezzlement from programs receiving federal funds. As part of her sentence, the Court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $80,168.16, the funds Urbina obtained through the offense. She pleaded guilty on June 3, 2014.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today sent a letter to Gina McCarthy, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), regarding the increasingly negative agricultural and economic impacts that are the result of the Agency's inappropriately calculated risks and benefits analysis for certain pesticides.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: Defendant, a Career Offender, had Two Prior Federal Drug Trafficking Convictions.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents from the HSI Attaché Office for the Southern Cone of the Americas began a four-day investigative training program on cross-border crimes Tuesday for Uruguayan and Paraguayan law enforcement officials.
