News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Billy Joe Moreno, 43, of Corpus Christi, has pleaded guilty to distribution of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Donna L. Jennings, 44, of Winchester, pleaded guilty today to charges relating to embezzling over $1 million from Winchester Community Federal Credit Union.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: One Defendant was Implicated in Earlier Case - Committed Fraud After Judicial Order.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a 17 year veteran police officer with the Fairview Township Police Department was arrested today by federal authorities on corruption charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: A Westlake cardiologist was sentenced to 20 years in prison for performing unnecessary catheterizations, tests, stent insertions and causing unnecessary coronary artery bypass surgeries as part of a scheme to overbill Medicare and other insurers, law enforcement officials said.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: GRAND COULEE, Washington - The Bureau of Reclamation has released an Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the construction of a new Fire Station at the Grand Coulee Power Office.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - On the first anniversary of the enactment of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA), Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, called on agencies across the federal government to improve implementation of the landmark information technology (IT) law.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: A former bank vice president was sentenced to 30 months in prison, in connection with the Rothstein case.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: A Dania Beach businessman pled guilty to trafficking in elephant ivory.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Chiedu “George" Chukwuka has been sentenced in connection with his lead role in a mortgage fraud ring that spanned five years and caused millions in losses. Chukwuka, along with his co-defendants and other co-conspirators, engaged in a massive property-flipping scheme resulting in over $5.8 million in actual losses to financial institutions between 2006 and 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the arrest and filing of a criminal complaint charging David Kneitel (56, Tampa) with possession of child pornography. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: Defendant Fondled Victim While She Was Sleeping.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: Head of Mexican Cartel Imported Tens of Thousands of Kilograms of Cocaine into the United States Secreted Inside Commercial Rail Cars and Tractor Trailers.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: YAKIMA, Washington - Due to the Roza Irrigation District canceling its initiative for the Kachess Emergency Temporary Floating Pumping Plant (KETFPP) Project, the Bureau of Reclamation has ceased work for this project. This includes the analysis of impacts and review of public comments.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. sentenced Jerry Lee Grier, Jr., 38, of Charlotte to 12 years in prison in connection with his scheme to defraud Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (Wells Fargo) and for violating the terms of his supervised release, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released an Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact that will allow the Klamath Irrigation District. to replace the C Canal Flume, located approximately seven miles southeast of the city of Klamath Falls. The flume is an elevated...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: A grand jury returned a 15-count superseding indictment charging Robert B. Ray, 52, of Lorain, with producing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, receiving, and possessing child pornography, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On Dec. 17, 2015, Craig A. Tripp, 62, of Avoca, Iowa, was sentenced by Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to three months imprisonment and fined $15,000 for filing a false 2009 tax return, announced Acting United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. In addition...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Chinese national pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with supplying Iran with pressure transducers which could be used to make nuclear weapons-grade uranium.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to the arrest and resignation of former hedge fund manager and Turing CEO Martin Shkreli...
