News from August 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: GREENVILLE, N.C. - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced today that a jury convicted Donald Jerome Parkeralso known as “DP", 27of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, of two counts of distributing a quantity of cocaine (crack) and two counts of distributing 28 grams or more of cocaine (crack). The jury returned its verdict following a trial in federal court before Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Cherry Creek, South Dakota, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact by Force was sentenced on Aug. 24, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Holyoke man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Springfield for distributing heroin at a strip mall in Holyoke and outside a bank in Springfield.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The head of a Mexican drug trafficking (DTO) responsible for producing and distributing vast quantities of heroin into the United States was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr., announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Carlos Ramon Castro-Rocha, a/k/a “Cuate," 41, of Sinaloa, Mexico, was handed down a 135-month sentence, followed by a five-year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal grand jury today indicted a Honduran man on charges he knowingly transported illegal aliens within the United States for personal financial gain, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Special Agent in Charge Raymond R. Parmer Jr. of the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite announced that TRACY C. HARTMAN, 49, of Slidell, was charged today in a Bill of Information with one count of making false statements.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the Department of Energy Inspector General report that found, “Solyndra may have provided the Department of Energy with false and misleading information during the application process for a $535 million loan guarantee." The Energy and Commerce Committee conducted an 18-month investigation into the failed loan guarantee.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the Department of Energy Inspector General report that found, “Solyndra may have provided the Department of Energy with false and misleading information during the application process for a $535 million loan guarantee." The Energy and Commerce Committee conducted an 18-month investigation into the failed loan guarantee.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review the Draft Environmental Assessment analyzing the impacts of approving an exchange of up to 2,000 acre-feet of Level 2 refuge water for groundwater that will also result in up to 2,000 acre-feet of Incremental Level 4 refuge water for the fall of 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: A North Miami resident was sentenced to 31 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $18,469 for his participation in a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: DETROIT - United States Attorneys and leaders of federal law enforcement agencies from across six states will be meeting in Detroit on Aug. 26, 2015, to share strategies to combat the heroin and prescription pill epidemic across the region.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Timothy Brown, age 51, of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, Taz G. Bibey, age 19, of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and Andrew T. Davis, age 26, of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, each entered a guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: In Austin today, 57-year-old former Internal Revenue Service employee Kenneth Goheen of Austin was sentenced to two years plus one day in federal prison for his role in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Samuel Perez, a New Jersey businessman, has been sentenced to three years, ten months in federal prison for falsifying over $6 million in accounts receivables and invoices that he sold to an Atlanta, Georgia, financing company.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that two men involved in gang-related narcotics trafficking in Hartford were sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: Coach charged by state and federal prosecutors for allegations of inappropriate behavior.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Quest Diagnostics Inc. and Quest Diagnostics Clinical Laboratories Inc. (collectively “Quest Diagnostics") have paid the United States $1,79 million to settle claims that it violated the False Claims Act, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: GREENBELT, Md. - U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced Joshua Scott Schellhase, age 31, of Leonardtown, Maryland today to six years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for distribution of heroin. A close friend of Schellhase died as a result of using the heroin distributed by Schellhase.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that four more co-defendants have pleaded guilty in federal court to aiding and abetting a fraudulent tax return preparation scheme that claimed nearly $340,000 in fraudulent income tax refunds.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2015
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is encouraging interested artists to grab a camera, sketch pad, paints or any other artistic tool and prepare to capture the beautiful landscapes found at Canyons of the Ancients National Monument for the Artists-in-Residence program. Proposals for the 2015...
