News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that nine more defendants were sentenced for their roles in a bogus lottery scam that targeted elderly victims around the country, by notifying them that they had won a lottery or sweepstakes, but needed to pay fees or taxes...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DARNELL REED, age 40, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to two counts of criminal copyright infringement.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will be hosting the Fifteenth Annual Spring Planting Festival on Saturday April 25; beginning this year we have "changed up" the program to include a number of traditional musical groups and renamed the event the Spring Planting and Music Festival. This is a wonderful opportunity to visit historical farms and see how families lived and played in the early 1900s.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester tax preparer was found guilty today by a federal jury of filing false tax returns with the IRS, following a four-day trial in U.S. District Court in Worcester.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - On Thursday, April 2, the United States Attorney’s Office, in partnership with the United States Department of Justice, the Matthew Shepard Foundation, the Napa Valley Criminal Justice Training Center, the Central California Intelligence Center, and the Sacramento State Pride Center participated in events commemorating the 5th anniversary of the passage of the landmark Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Michael Paul, Jr., 45, of Saco, Maine, was sentenced on Tuesday in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to one year and one day in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for money laundering conspiracy. He pled guilty to the charge on April 1, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: Allegedly Conspired to Defraud Employees of Health and Welfare Benefits, Embezzled From Employee Benefits Plans and Evaded Payment of Taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: DAYTON, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged Dennis S. Hunter, 51, and Sivan D. Hunter, 45, both of Dayton, with conspiracy to distribute marijuana and money laundering in an indictment returned in Dayton.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A suspended Chicago pharmacist today admitted to illegally obtaining counterfeit Viagra and Cialis from China and illegally dispensing the bogus medications at his north side pharmacy. The defendant, MICHAEL MARKIEWICZ, who owns Belmont Pharmacy, 6148 West Belmont, pled guilty to trafficking counterfeit Viagra from his pharmacy between 2010 and 2012. United States District Court Judge John Z. Lee scheduled sentencing for July 8, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: National Park Week 2015 Encourages Everyone To Find Your Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - Senior U.S. District Judge Wm. Terrell Hodges has sentenced James Bryan Swoll, a/k/a “Squid," (37, Ocala) to 10 years in federal prison for distributing five kilograms or more of cocaine and money laundering. He was also ordered to forfeit $350,000 worth of real property that was traceable to the offenses. Swoll pleaded guilty in November 2014.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: Upcoming Webinars. April 7: Live Webinar on Zero Energy Buildings: What Are They and How Do We Build Them?. Webinar Sponsor: Better Buildings. The Energy Department will present a live webinar titled "Zero Energy Buildings: What Are They and How Do We Build them?" on Tuesday, April 7, from 3:00 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Plotted To Construct An Explosive Device For Use In A Terrorist Attack On U.S. Soil.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A doctor with an office in North Arlington, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for test referrals as part of a long-running scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president, and numerous associates, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia, April 1, 2015-In April, four West Virginia forests will be added to a growing list of forests included in the Old Growth Forest Network. The first West Virginia forest to be dedicated into the network will be an old growth forest located in the federally protected New River...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: Large amount of construction equipment allegedly stolen and transported across state lines.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Seven defendants have been charged in a scheme to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks to a procurement official at a subsidiary of the Boeing Company that supplies satellites and satellite parts to federal government entities, including NASA.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Following an arrest in May, 2014 of fifteen individuals in South Africa, Canada, California, Wisconsin, and Indiana, ADEKUNLE ADEFILA, a Nigerian living in Canada, has been extradited to face charges in the Southern District of Mississippi, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Raymond Parmer, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in New Orleans.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: The Preserving Employee Wellness Programs Act, introduced by Senate and House leaders last month to provide legal certainty for employers offering innovative employee wellness programs, is receiving broad support from business leaders and health care industry experts.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Washington, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
