News from April 2015
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -The Bureau of Land Management today released the Proposed Resource Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement for the approximately one million-acre Grand Junction Field Office in northwestern Colorado. The Grand Junction Field Office includes some of the public’s most diverse landscapes and provides some of the nation’s premier recreational opportunities.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Dell Schanze, age 45, of American Fork, Utah, pled guilty to using an aircraft to harass wildlife and pursuing a migratory bird in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City Friday afternoon. There was no plea agreement, and federal prosecutors made no concessions to Schanze as a part of his guilty plea to both counts of the Misdemeanor Information.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: In Midland, a federal jury convicted four Odessa residents for their role in a Permian Basin drug distribution scheme involving firearms and resulting in murder announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist and Odessa Police Chief Timothy Burton.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on April 10, 2015, James Kim Gatluak, 26, of Omaha, was sentenced to seven years (84 months) in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Following the prison term, Gatluak will serve two years on supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: In Del Rio this morning, 62-year-old Val Verde County Precinct 1 Commissioner Ramiro Ramon surrendered to authorities based on federal charges alleging that he accepted bribes totaling more than $68,000 in exchange for actions performed in his official capacity. That announcement was made today by Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs and IRS-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge William Cotter.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that, on April 10, 2015, Lee Jay Manning, 28, of Barre, Vermont, was sentenced to 76 months in federal prison after his guilty plea to charges that he used a handgun to rob a Cumberland Farms convenience store in Barre on Feb. 12, 2014. Chief U.S. District Court Judge Christina Reiss also ordered that Manning serve three years of supervised release following his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: DENVER -- John Walsh, United States Attorney for the District of Colorado, today announced the recovery of more than $66,000 to settle allegations that Slawson Exploration Company violated the Federal False Claims Act by failing to properly value gas produced from Indian leases and pay royalties to the Department of the Interior’s Office of Natural Resources Revenue (“ONRR").
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Matthew Cruz, 22, of Rochester, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession of child pornography. The charge carries a maximum of 20 and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JASON C. DOYLE, age 38, of New Orleans, was charged today in a Bill of Information with one count of Wire Fraud and one count of Failing to Pay Over Taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Thomas Silber, 51, of Yardley, PA, was sentenced yesterday to 14 years in prison for knowingly receiving, and attempting to receive, visual depictions, that is, DVD movies, depicting child pornography. Between February 2007 and October 2010, Silber received 10 DVD movies, using the internet...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Lisa Kay Balderrama, age 50, of Cortez, Colorado, was sentenced earlier this week by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Marcia S. Krieger to serve 12 months in federal prison for filing a false tax return, United States Attorney John Walsh and IRS Criminal Investigation Acting Special Agent in...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston woman was sentenced today for taking more than $220,000 in Social Security payments to which she was not entitled and failing to pay taxes on that income.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Ralph Howell, age 48, and Eddie Rodgriguez-Melendez, age 35, both of Harrisburg, were sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner in Harrisburg, for drug related offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Michael Eugene Simpson, age 35, of Aurora, Colorado, was found guilty yesterday of gun and drug charges, following a three day jury trial before U.S. District Court Judge Philip A. Brimmer, United States Attorney John Walsh and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Luke Franey announced. The jury deliberated for approximately five hours before reaching their verdicts.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - The former Chief Executive Officer and Vice President of Sales of Acclarent, Inc., a medical device company, were charged in an indictment unsealed today with conspiracy, securities fraud, wire fraud and violations of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment against the owner of Alpha Diagnostics, Rafael Chikvashvili, age 67, of Baltimore, Maryland, adding four counts of health care fraud resulting in serious bodily harm and death, as well as conspiracy and wire fraud, related...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Marzett Jordan, 45, of Philadelphia, Mississippi, was sentenced on April 2, 2015 by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate to six months in federal prison for making false statements, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Jerome R. McDuffie, Acting Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation. The government and Jordan also agreed to a substitute of assets settlement of $130,000 which was paid by Jordan to the U.S. Department of Treasury.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: An Ypsilanti man was sentenced yesterday for his involvement in a scheme to defraud the Internal Revenue Service, announced United States Attorney Barbara L McQuade.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: Federal Jury Convicted Defendant of Drug Trafficking Charges Arising out of Seizure of 20 Pounds of Methamphetamine and 700 Grams of Cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2015
News Release: Court Orders Man Held Without Bond Pending Trial.
