News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Senior United States District Judge John Antoon, II has sentenced Stephen B. Deluca (58, Deland) to six years and six months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud. The Court also sentenced him to serve three years of supervision after his release, and ordered him to pay $18,701,804 in restitution. A federal jury found Deluca guilty in March 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: (Richmond, CA) - On Saturday, May 9th at 11 AM, the National Park Service will welcome author Heidi Gurcke Donald to speak about her new book, We Were Not the Enemy, at Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: Today in San Antonio, United States District Judge Royce C. Lamberth sentenced 45-year-old Lebanese-born Wissam “Sam" Allouche to five years in federal prison for knowingly lying to federal authorities on his U.S. citizenship petition about his relationship with the Amal militia. That announcement was made today by Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that two Luzerne County residents pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton, to participating in a two-year conspiracy to distribute alpha-pvp, commonly known as “bath salts," in Luzerne County.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A Houston man entered a plea of guilty in Corpus Christi federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to harbor and transport illegal aliens, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Homero Gonzalez-Carranza, 30, pleaded guilty to being a boss in this conspiracy which existed from January 2007 until January 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Walter Eric Holmes, 44, of Quincy was sentenced by United States District Judge Mark Walker to 180 months in prison for distributing cocaine and crack cocaine. The sentence was announced by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida. Holmes, who pled guilty earlier this year, had a lengthy history of convictions, including seven drug felony offenses and an aggravated battery involving a shooting.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON-The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today issued a draft guide to help communities plan for and act to keep windstorms, floods, earthquakes, sea-level rise, industrial mishaps and other hazards from inflicting disastrous consequences.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton today sentenced Olivia Bolles a/k/a “MDpro" (32, Newark, Delaware) to five years in federal prison for the illegal distribution of controlled substances. She pleaded guilty on Jan. 20, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: Transported cocaine and heroin to the Norfolk area.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: Effective today, Kelly T. Currie will serve as the acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. In that capacity, he is responsible for overseeing all federal criminal and civil investigations and cases in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island, as well as Nassau and Suffolk Counties...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Anthony Banks, age 39, New York, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones III in Harrisburg to 21 months imprisonment for bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: Drug Trafficking Organization Allegedly Distributed Quantities of Marijuana from El Paso, Texas to Roswell, New Mexico and Lubbock, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - The Medical Center of Central Georgia (MCCG) has agreed to pay $20 million to settle allegations that the hospital violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare for more expensive inpatient services that should have been billed as less costly outpatient or observation services, the United States Attorney’s Office announced today. MCCG is located in Macon, Georgia, and is the second largest hospital in the state.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Rocio Contreras-Loya, 40, of Sante Fe Springs, California, was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Contreras-Loya to serve three years of supervised release, to pay $15,443.80 in restitution, and to forfeit $26,777.13 in cash proceeds of the charged offenses. Contreras-Loya pleaded guilty on Jan. 30, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge John Antoon, II has sentenced John Anderson Butler, Jr. (55, Daytona Beach) and Victor A. Rhynes (55, Rockledge) for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine. Butler was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison and Rhynes was sentenced to 13 years and 4 months’ imprisonment. Butler pleaded guilty on Dec. 30, 2014, and Rhynes pleaded guilty on Jan. 28, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Barry Eugene Dragovich, 37, of Morgantown, West Virginia was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for repeatedly possessing and attempting to use counterfeit U.S. currency, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Middlesex County, New Jersey, lawyer and certified public accountant was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for conspiring with a New Jersey mortgage broker to extort and defraud victims by falsely representing to them that they were the subjects of criminal investigations, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), announced today that Dennis Sica pleaded guilty today in White Plains federal court to participating in a...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- The former financial officer of two non-profit health clinics in Alabama for the poor and homeless pleaded guilty today to multiple federal charges related to a scheme to defraud millions of dollars from the clinics and the federal government health agencies that provide most of their funding.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: RIFLE, Colo. - Despite rainy conditions, more than 30 volunteers removed more than six tons of garbage, including 70 tires and 31 gallons of used motor oil, from public land north of Rifle on April 25 as part of an annual clean-up.
