News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A man from Los Angeles, California, pleaded guilty today to a federal methamphetamine charge, announced United States Attorney Booth Goodwin. Terry Cunningham, 32, entered his guilty plea in federal court in Charleston, West Virginia, to distribution of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Two Monmouth County men were sentenced to prison today for their roles in a large-scale drug trafficking organization that distributed heroin in Ocean and Monmouth counties, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: Get out of the house this winter on a ranger-led program or hike at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. For information on the programs at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, call the information desk at 219-395-1882 or check the park's website at www.nps.gov/indu.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Tiffany H. Lee, who is handling the case, stated that Cortese used the internet and a smart phone to persuade a 12 year old minor to engage in sexually explicit activity. This activity included engaging in sexually explicit chats, attempting to have the minor send sexually explicit images of themselves and to receive and distribute images of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: An Avon Lake man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for fraudulently obtaining more than $10.6 million in loan proceeds, bribing the chief operating officer of the credit union to receive those loans, and laundering the proceeds, conduct which contributed to the collapse of the St. Paul Croatian Federal Credit Union, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jalil Ibn Ameer Aziz, 19, a U.S. citizen and resident of Harrisburg, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Scranton on charges of conspiring and attempting to provide material support to the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Mexican national pleaded guilty to charges that he reentered the United States illegally at least three times.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the indictment of LEVI DAVID LINDEMANN, 39, for stealing more than $2.5 million from investment advisory clients. LINDEMANN is charged with mail fraud and money laundering. He is expected to make an initial appearance before Magistrate Judge Hildy Bowbeer in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: Everyone expects objects at the atomic scale to follow the weird rules of quantum mechanics. But in the past few years, scientists at NIST and elsewhere have shown that comparatively large mechanical objects can be coaxed into exhibiting a surprising variety of quantum properties.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth R. Moellering, who handled the case, stated that the defendant made false statements on his application for a U.S. passport on Aug. 29, 2008. Abdus failed to disclose the fact that he had previously entered the U.S. in 1993 using a different name and had claimed asylum under that alias. Fingerprints confirm that it was the defendant who entered using the alias in 1993.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. --- Free transportation, parking and guided tours to Biscayne and Everglades National Parks are provided as part of the special Homestead National Parks Trolley service for the holiday season. The trolley runs each day from December 26 through 31, 2015, in addition to every weekend through May 1, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- Federal officials today announced arrests and charges in a stolen identity tax-refund scheme believed to involve more than $1 million in false claims and run by an IRS employee who was supposed to be assisting taxpayers experiencing problems resulting from identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: Jose Alberto Guadalupe-Ascencion, 30, of Norristown, PA, was charged today by Indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about Dec. 3, 2015, Guadalupe-Ascencion, an alien, and native and citizen of Mexico, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about Dec. 3, 2010, Feb. 2, 2012, June 6, 2012, and Sept. 23, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: LEESBURG, Va. - The national touring exhibit developed by the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and the DEA Educational Foundation, Drugs: Costs and Consequences, formerly known as Target America, opens on Jan. 12, 2016 at 750 Miller Drive, SE, Suite F-1 in Leesburg, Virginia, and will be open Tuesday through...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Dorchester man was arraigned in U.S. District Court in Worcester yesterday in connection with selling weapons that were stolen from the U.S. Army Reserve Center in Worcester (Worcester Armory) and for making false statements to federal agents.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A physician’s assistant was sentenced to prison, and a doctor admitted taking bribes in connection with a long-running and elaborate test referral scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that U.S. District Court Judge Roberto Lange awarded the United States of America $279,184.00 against John Dewayne Ford for submitting multiple false-unemployment claims to the United States Railroad Retirement Board.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A citizen of Mexico has pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal immigration laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: Oil paintings by landscape painter Robin Wessman will be on exhibition at the Salt Pond classroom throughout the month of January. The exhibit is part of the series, "Perspectives: Seeing Cape Cod National Seashore through Art.".
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: Two Randolph County residents were indicted on December 8, 2015, for a methamphetamine offense, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James L. Porter, announced today.
