News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Regan Christopher Tsoi-A-Sue, age 29, of Washington, D.C., today to 30 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft arising from a scheme to fraudulently obtain money from customer bank accounts. Judge Grimm also entered an order that Tsoi-A-Sue pay restitution of $87,350.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: Beginning next month, qualified veterans charged with committing misdemeanors while on Fort Hood will be eligible to participate in a pilot program designed to provide an alternative to a federal conviction announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In an effort to break the Obama administration’s stonewall on providing information about its unlawful payments to insurance companies, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) recently wrote to Secretary...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Sayreville, New Jersey, man was convicted today by a federal jury for his role in a conspiracy to import heroin from India into the United States, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An Orange County man who allegedly bilked distressed homeowners with false promises that he could help them avoid foreclosure by obtaining modifications to their mortgages - or even completely eliminating their loans - was arrested this morning on federal fraud charges by Special Agents with the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael J. Adler, who is handling the case, stated that according to the complaint, on Nov. 24, 2015, U.S. Probation Officers attempted to search the defendant’s Niagara Falls residence. An officer approached Giwa on the porch and directed the defendant to put his hands behind...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: Salvador Machuca-Chavez, 51, of Mexico, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on December 9, 2015, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Machuca-Chavez was arrested in Rawlins, Wyoming. He received time served, plus ten days, was ordered to...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: Sixteen Named in Racketeering Indictment Alleging Money Laundering Schemes Orchestrated by Former President of Orange County Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 29-year-old Dayton, Texas man has been convicted of two counts of kidnapping in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: The agreement requires the Chesapeake, Virginia-based Dollar Tree to develop and implement a comprehensive safety and health program consistent with OSHA's Safety and Health Program Management Guidelines. Dollar Tree operates stores nationwide, including 2,400 stores included in this agreement. The company's...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Four more individuals involved in an extensive a-PVP (alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone) distribution conspiracy centered in northeast Tennessee, southwest Virginia and western North Carolina have been sentenced to serve time in federal prison by the Honorable Pamela L. Reeves, U.S. District Court Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Edison Norberto Sanchez, 39, of Orlando, Florida, was sentenced this morning in federal court for his participation in a scheme to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Sanchez pled guilty to the conspiracy...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 2015 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced a conditional commitment for a $70 million loan guarantee to help build a cellulosic biorefinery in central Georgia. USDA is providing the loan guarantee conditional commitment, an important milestone in the ongoing development of the project, through its Biorefinery Assistance Program.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 2015 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the availability of $17.6 million in funding to support research and outreach activities that will help growers, producers, and processors find innovative ways to improve organic agriculture. The grants are being funded through ...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: Funding Also Available for Six Other Habitats on Privately-Owned Land WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 2015 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the availability of $40 million to help ranchers and other partners in 11 western states restore and protect sagebrush habitat for greater sage-grouse on ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: A California man pleaded guilty today to two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit international money laundering in connection with an international “pump and dump” scheme involving stocks traded on the over-the-counter (OTC) market. Assistant Attorney General ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: An Army sergeant was sentenced to 24 months in prison today for his role in a conspiracy to commit bribery in connection with supply contracts while serving in Afghanistan. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney John E. Kuhn Jr. of the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: Three Co-Conspirators Have Already Pleaded Guilty; Five Expected to Go to Trial in May 2016 Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame, 20, of Eagan, Minnesota, was charged by criminal complaint with conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), announced Assistant Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that Cornèr Banca SA (Cornèr) and Bank Coop AG (Bank Coop) reached resolutions under the department’s Swiss Bank Program. The Swiss Bank Program, which was announced on Aug. 29, 2013, provides a path for Swiss banks to resolve potential criminal liabilities in ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: 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, announced Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman of the District of New Jersey and Special Agent in Charge Richard M. Frankel of the FBI’s Newark Division.
