News from August 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that CHENG LE was found guilty of attempting to acquire ricin to use as a weapon, postal fraud, and identity theft. LE was convicted after a four-day jury trial before United States District Judge Alison J. Nathan.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement in anticipation of the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Saturday, August 29...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II and Acting Assistant Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division, Caroline D. Ciraolo, announced that F. William Messier, 71, of Brunswick, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby to...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: The Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability has released the Annual U.S. Transmission Data Review, its annual compilation of transmission-related data focusing on six areas: transmission infrastructure, reliability, utilization, constraints, planning, and economic congestion. This data...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - ANTHONY JORDAN, St. Louis, Missouri, was charged with multiple drug and weapons charges which resulted in the deaths of three area people.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. announced that Kim Duron Mulder, 56, formerly of East Grand Rapids, was sentenced today to ten years in prison. Mulder, the CEO of Kentwood Pharmacy, pled guilty to a conspiracy to commit health care fraud based on billing Medicare Part D Plans...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - This afternoon a federal jury sitting in Santa Fe, N.M., found Firas Abuzuhrieh, 38, of Albuquerque, N.M., guilty on federal synthetic drug trafficking charges after a four-day trial. The guilty verdict was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy of the DEA’s El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Jonathan Marshall Taylor, 46, of Gainesville, Florida with sex trafficking of a minor. Taylor was arraigned today in the U.S. District Court in Gainesville. The indictment was announced by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A Union County man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 25 years in federal prison for producing child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose of the Western District of North Carolina. Chad Landon Blume, 34, of Waxhaw, N.C., was also ordered to serve...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada -Launch ramp conditions at Lake Mead have improved significantly thanks to an ongoing $1.5 million construction project that began in late July.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Westchester businessman SELIM ZHERKA pled guilty today to conspiring to make false statements to a bank in order to receive millions of dollars in loans and to file materially false tax returns with the IRS. As part of his plea agreement, ZHERKA agreed to forfeit $5.23 million. ZHERKA entered his guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: A Cleveland man was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for multiple armed robberies of Family Dollar and Dollar General stores in Northeast Ohio, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of New Bedford, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Aug. 25, 2015, by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of distribution of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor and possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - Three Chicago-area men with prior felony convictions have been indicted on federal gun charges for illegally possessing semiautomatic weapons.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Aug. 26, 2015, Jenifer Tran, age 41, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey to time-served and three years of supervised release, with six months of home confinement, on a charge of making false statements during the purchase of firearms, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Tran was also ordered to pay $100 towards the Crime Victims Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH -A Pittsburgh resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute a quantity of crack cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Seven individuals were convicted in federal court this week for their role in a multi-state heroin trafficking operation, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: A grand jury returned a three-count indictment related to three bank robberies in Parma and Parma Heights, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: 400 felony charges include negligent homicide
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Penn Hills, PA, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine and 100 grams or more of heroin, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
