News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - An Olathe man was indicted Thursday on federal charges of devising a fraud scheme that cost a Turkish investor millions of dollars, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Rep. Mike Bishop (R-MI) issued the following statements today after the House passed bipartisan legislation extending the Federal Perkins Loan Program, which expired earlier this year...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Pennsylvania Resident Charged with Providing Material Support to ISIL.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Desrick Gordon (23, St. Vincent and the Grenadines) guilty of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine and possession with the intent to distribute 5 kilograms...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging Javier Haro, 34, of Modesto, with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Husband and wife conspired to defraud federal contract programs for disadvantaged and disabled veteran-owned small businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Mufid A. Elfgeeh, 31, of Rochester, New York, pleaded guilty today to attempting to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization, before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford of the Western District of New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that Bordier & Cie Switzerland (Bordier), PBZ Verwaltungs AG (PBZ) and PostFinance AG reached resolutions under the department’s Swiss Bank Program. These banks collectively will pay penalties of more than $15 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: A Brooklyn, New York tax return preparer pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York to one count of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division Will Work with the Department of Labor and U.S. Attorneys for Broader Look at Environmental and Workplace Safety Crimes In an effort to prevent and deter crimes that put the lives and the health of workers at risk, the Departments of Justice ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: The U.S. Departments of Justice, Homeland Security and Labor announced today the selection of six new Anti-Trafficking Coordination Teams. These teams will lead Phase II of the ACTeam Initiative, an interagency effort to streamline federal criminal investigations and prosecutions of human trafficking offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: A Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, resident was arrested today on charges of conspiring and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Jalil Ibn Ameer Aziz, 19, a U.S. citizen, is charged in a two-count criminal complaint that was unsealed today in the U.S. District ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Tammy Dickinson of the Western District of Missouri announced today that a Seattle man became the sixth defendant convicted in federal court for his role in one of the largest software piracy schemes ever prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: A Portland, Oregon, resident was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday for one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, 12 counts of wire fraud, 12 counts of filing false claims for tax refunds, four counts of theft of government funds and one count of aggravated identity theft, announced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Eighteen Others Previously Sentenced to Prison for Illegal Activity on Child Pornography Websites Based on Tor Network A New York man was sentenced to six years in federal prison today for receiving and accessing child pornography in connection with his use of a website based on the Tor network.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: A former tax return preparer and resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today to one count of theft of public funds and one count of aggravated identity theft, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U. S. Attorney Kenneth ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Enrique Marquez Jr., 24, of Riverside, California, a longtime friend of Syed Rizwan Farook, the male shooter in the San Bernardino, California, terrorist attack, was charged today with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists based upon his role in terrorist plotting with Farook in 2011 and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice, including lawyers and senior leaders from the Civil Rights Division, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of Illinois, completed two days of introductory meetings in Chicago today following last week’s announcement of a pattern or practice investigation into ...
By Fed Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: The federal banking agencies approved a notice requesting comment on the fourth and final set of regulatory categories as part of their review to identify outdated or unnecessary regulations applied to insured depository institutions.
