News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 25-year-old Beaumont, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for a fatal carjacking in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former resident of Bergen County, New Jersey, today admitted that he conspired to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, and Special Agent in Charge Richard M. Frankel of the FBI’s Newark Division announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Dwayne Parker, age 31, a federal prisoner formally housed at the Federal Correctional Institute, Schuylkill was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton, for possession of a prohibited object in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Ledale Johnson (51, Bradenton) has pleaded guilty to knowingly filing a false income tax return on behalf of another and aggravated identity theft. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison on the tax return count, to be followed by a consecutive two-year term for the aggravated identity theft count.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senator Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, the Ranking Member of the Finance Committee Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy Subcommittee, along with five Senate Democrats, today introduced a bill to protect Americans who receive Social Security from having their benefits taken away to pay outstanding federal debts, such as student loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: Memorandum of Understanding for the Investigation and Potential Prosecution of Civil Rights Violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U. S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Michael J. Ronga (44, Cape Coral) to six years in federal prison for deprivation of civil rights under color of law and obstruction of justice. Ronga was convicted by a federal jury on Sept. 1, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: In Austin this afternoon, 54-year-old Mexican businessman Francisco Colorado Cessa faces up to 20 years in federal prison after a jury convicted him of scheming to launder millions of dollars in Los Zetas drug distribution proceeds through purchasing, training, breeding and racing American quarter horses...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-In response to today’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Office of Inspector General (IG) report, Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz sent a letter to OPM Acting Director Beth Cobert, reiterating his call for Chief Information Officer Donna Seymour to be removed.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today charging a former Educational Achievement Authority (“EAA") principal and an after-school tutoring vendor with conspiracy and bribery charges, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida- United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the arrest and filing of a criminal complaint charging Hamid Mohamed Ahmed Ali Rehaif (25, Melbourne, and a citizen of the United Arab Emirates) with possession of ammunition by an unlawful or illegal alien. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: Dec. 10, 2015 BOS 2015-221. Employer name: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Connecticut Health Care System, 950 Campbell Ave., West Haven, CT 06516. Notices issued: On Dec. 1, 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued notices to the medical center...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a 13-count indictment today against Juan Carranza, 23; Jose Carranza-Pompa, 57; Lorenzo Carranza-Pompa, 48; and Maria Carranza, 44, all of Modesto, charging them with a conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine;...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A federal jury, today, returned guilty verdicts on all counts against Rahim Henderson, 38, of Philadelphia, PA, in connection with a counterfeit credit card manufacturing operation. Henderson, a former Philadelphia Police Officer, was convicted of conspiracy, wire fraud, access device fraud, and multiple counts of aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT/LAFAYETTE/ALEXANDRIA/LAKE CHARLES/MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Louisiana collected $10,649,919 through civil, criminal and asset forfeiture actions in Fiscal Year 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: Defendant Arrested Soon After the Crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Adesola Vanzant, 21, of Tacoma Park, Maryland, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for unlawful possession of stolen firearms, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 58-year-old resident of McAllen has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of receipt of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Maximiliano Cantu pleaded guilty Oct. 28, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. -At approximately 6 am on Sunday, December 6, the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a call reporting CPR in progress in Bright Angel Campground near Phantom Ranch. Park rangers and other emergency personnel responded to the scene and continued CPR, however all efforts to resuscitate the hiker were unsuccessful.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: Faces up to Five Years in Prison.
