News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Daniel J. Kumor, Special Agent in Charge of the ATF Boston Field Division, today announced that a federal grand jury in Bridgeport returned an indictment today charging LARRY TALLEDO-TORREJON, 29, a citizen of Peru last residing in Stamford, with orchestrating a murder for hire scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Winter is here and the holiday season is soon upon us. Do you need a place to bring your holiday guests? Perhaps you still have holiday shopping to do. Consider visiting Fossil Butte National Monument's visitor center. Over 300 fossils are on display, including a 13-foot crocodile and the world's oldest...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Paul Guzock, 58, of Middleport, NY, who was convicted of maintaining a premises for the purpose of manufacturing, distributing and using marijuana and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, was sentenced to 30 months in prison by Senior U.S. District Court Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Defendant Claimed More Than $678,000 In False Refunds From The IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Thomas Anthony George, 65, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 384 months in prison for two counts of using a firearm during the commission of armed bank robberies. George was also ordered to pay full restitution in the amount of $182,104.48.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - 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: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that MIGUEL MENDEZ-GUSMAN, age 36, a citizen of El Salvador, pled guilty today to a one-count Indictment for false claim to United States citizenship.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mandan, North Dakota, woman convicted of Larceny was sentenced on Dec. 14, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Cross Lanes woman was sentenced today in federal court in Charleston, West Virginia, to three years and four months in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine with her husband, announced United States Attorney Booth Goodwin. Sherri Little, 41, previously pleaded guilty in...
By State Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Representatives Nita Lowey (D-NY), Peter Roskam (R-IL), Eliot Engel (D-NY), and Ed Royce (R-CA) today introduced a resolution (H.R. 567 ) expressing opposition to new guidelines issued by the European Commission to start labeling certain Israeli products imported into European Union (EU) countries as “product from the West Bank (Israeli settlement)" and issued the following joint statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -- 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 A. Polite, Jr. for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - An Oak Bluffs man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to stealing $160,025 in Social Security benefits and falsifying his 2010 tax return.
By State Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement on today’s announcement of a signed peace deal in Libya...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Experience the wilder side of Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve during a special ranger-led, Tamiami Trail Triathlon of paddling, hiking and biking. Normally the Tamiami Trail Triathlon is completed at National Park Service sites along the Tamiami Trail (U.S. Highway 41) on your...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement on the Cybersecurity Act of 2015, legislation included in the omnibus spending bill to be considered tomorrow...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: California Man Charged with Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Terrorism and Being ‘Straw Purchaser’ of Assault Rifles Ultimately Used in San Bernardino, California, Attack.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the arrest of STUART SCHLESINGER for defrauding his clients by failing to pay them millions...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Maryville, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for a murder-for-hire scheme in which she negotiated with an undercover federal agent and, without realizing it, her intended victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that yesterday a federal Grand Jury in Harrisburg charged Jeshua Paonessa-Velez, age 24, a York City resident with bank fraud and identity theft. Paonessa-Velez is not in custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Roman Palma-Flores, aka Ivan Ubence Cantarero-Hernandez, 43, of Honduras, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on Dec. 17, 2015, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Palma-Flores was arrested in Buffalo, Wyoming. He received...
