News from September 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Northern District of Florida. Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014. Follow @NDFLNews. GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA -Senior U.S. District Court Judge Roger Vinson sentenced Joshua Sipe, 30, of Newberry, Florida, to a mandatory minimum term of 15 years as an Armed Career Criminal...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA -United States Attorney Walt Green announced that Chief U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced JOHNATHAN E. WILLIAMS, age 34, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to serve sixty three (63) months in federal prison as a result of a multi-year fraud scheme. The defendant was also ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 32-year-old Orange, Texas man has pleaded guilty to child pornography charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom of Kansas has been appointed to serve a two-year term on the committee that advises U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
By State Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following statement at a hearing of the Committee at which Secretary of State John F. Kerry testified on the ISIS threat...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: Fabio Rondon-Jose, a/k/a “Cesar Rodriguez," a/k/a “Noel Rodriguez Mendoza," 46, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about Aug. 21, 2014, Rondon-Jose, an alien, and native and citizen of the Dominican Republic, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about Nov. 30, 2005.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Donnica Crossland, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty today to making false statements to federal agents in connection with an investigation of student aid fraud. Her daughter, Jamanda Crossland, pleaded guilty today to making false statements on student financial aid applications.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Utah. Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014. Defendant Solicited More Than $7 Million From 50 Victims Or More. SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury returned a 38-count indictment Wednesday afternoon charging Randy Olshen, age 51, of Newport Beach, Calif....
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: The Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site and its partnering organizations.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: LAS VEGAS - Former Las Vegas physician Vinay Bararia, 44, was sentenced today to 44 months in prison and three years of supervised release for unlawfully selling hydrocodone and oxycodone to an undercover DEA agent in a hospital parking lot, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Raymondville, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment against LARRY D. BUTLER, age 49, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The indictment charges the defendant with wire fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343, false...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: Dr. Steven Collins Charged In Three Count Indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Zhou Wang Ni, 48, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of harboring illegal aliens for commercial gain, was sentenced two years probation by U.S. District Court Judge David G. Larimer. The defendant was also placed on 3 months of home detention and was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today changed a sentence of probation to one year and day in prison for a Birmingham Police officer convicted of using excessive force when he beat a handcuffed defendant in 2007, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - DWAYNE L. ROUSH, a physician from Yukon, Oklahoma, who is practicing in Purcell, Oklahoma, was sentenced yesterday to serve 36 months of probation and ordered to pay $340,652.53 in restitution to the IRS for to failing to file a federal tax return for 2011, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. In addition, Roush was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine and perform 200 hours of community service.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Thomas W. McCabe, 37, and Leah McCabe, 35, of Lockport NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Chief Judge William M. Skretny today to conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, a $5,000,000 fine, or both.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: Philadelphia: The house where General George Washington and British General William Howe stayed -at different times -will be open for the Revolutionary Germantown Festival, October 4, 2014 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.The site is otherwise closed to visitors in the fall and winter.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Memphis, Tenn., truck driver was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a cargo theft scheme that included a theft in West Plains, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROBERT KELLY, the Chief Executive Officer of Wwebnet, Inc. (“Wwebnet"), a software development company, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 27 months in prison in connection with his role in...
