News from August 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Timothy J. Jackson, 56, of New Cumberland, West Virginia, was convicted of possessing a stolen firearm, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Three Tax Return Preparers Charged with Conspiracy and Preparing False Tax Returns at Tax Preparation Business with Multiple Locations in Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) today announced the launch of The Center for Changing Our Campus Culture (www.changingourcampus.org ), a new comprehensive online clearinghouse on sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking on campus.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Cox Enterprises Inc. doing business as The Atlanta Journal Constitution
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Two men jailed for looting Civil War artifacts from federal lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - James Jariv, 64, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced in federal court in Las Vegas today to ten years in prison for his role in illegal schemes to generate fraudulent biodiesel credits and to export biodiesel without providing biodiesel credits to the United States. Jariv was also ordered to make restitution in the amount of $6,345,830.91 and to forfeit between $4 to $6 million in cash and other assets.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: DUBUQUE, IOWA - Seven United States Attorneys’ Offices joined together in a multi-state conference with the Iowa Organization for Victim Assistance to host a three day conference in Dubuque beginning today. Over 100 victim service professionals and law enforcement officers are participating in the summit, which focuses on “excellence in victim services.".
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: A Delaware County, Iowa, man pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids to one count of harboring, encouraging, and inducing an alien to reside in the United States in violation of law, for the purpose of commercial advantage or personal financial gain.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and United States Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that Arthur McKinnis, age 25, Narcisse Trotter, age 44, and Aaronisha Lewis, age 26, all of New Orleans, were sentenced today for their roles in a heroin conspiracy. McKinnis...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement after the Senate voted to confirm the nomination of Denise Turner Roth to be Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA)...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: I want to take a few minutes today to celebrate the upcoming 80th anniversary of an extraordinary moment in our great nation’s history: the creation of the Social Security program on August 14th, 1935. I am proud to be joined today by every one of my colleagues from this side of the aisle in the introduction of a resolution honoring this historic anniversary.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH- A resident of Fayetteville, Georgia, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Erik Pittman and Jeremy Blanchard, both 35 and from Memphis, Tennessee, and Corey Taylor, 25, of Richmond, were indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and aiding in the preparation of 19 false and fraudulent U.S. individual tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that IRWIN LIPKIN, the former Controller at Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (“BLMIS"), was sentenced today to six months in prison for fraud and other offenses set forth in a two-count Superseding Information...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Memphis, TN - A father and two sons were indicted on multiple charges this week for their alleged roles in a scheme that defrauded victims of more than $18 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: WILMINGTON - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that yesterday in federal court, TERRY LAMONT SPELLER, 37, of Winterville, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to Health Care Fraud and Engaging in Monetary Transactions Involving Criminally Derived Property.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a bipartisan staff report examining the April 15, 2015 Capitol airspace security breach in which Doug Hughes landed a gyrocopter...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JAHVAR HOOKS, age 31, of New Orleans, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty a one-count superseding Indictment charging him with maliciously conveying false information in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 844(e).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced that Mohamed Alam, 62, of North Andover, Massachusetts, was sentenced today to one year probation in U.S. District Court after pleading guilty to Causing Misbranded Drugs to be Introduced into Interstate Commerce. Alam was also ordered to pay a $1000 fine and a money forfeiture of $18,737.00.
