News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - William Conner, 61, of Philadelphia, PA, pleaded guilty today to receiving kickbacks and making false statements to law enforcement officials in connection with unnecessary ambulance transportation services. Conner faces a maximum possible sentence of 20 years in prison, three years of...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that John W. Shelton, 47, of Daniels, West Virginia, was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: BILLINGS - A Minnesota man was sentenced to 7 years in prison after stealing firearms from The Fort store in Big Timer. Guy, George Parenteau, 57, a convicted felon from the State of Minnesota, received 84 months in prison followed by 3 years supervised release in connection to his September 2014 guilty plea to being a felon in possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - OLUFUNSHO ADESHINA, of St. Louis, Missouri, has been charged in a criminal complaint in U.S. District Court alleging his participation in a stolen identity tax fraud scheme. IRS Criminal Investigators discovered tax refunds purportedly due to various individuals being deposited in numerous...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: At least 35 Properties throughout Minnesota went into Foreclosure as a Result of Scheme.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - U.S. Ambassador to Argentina Noah B. Mamet and Argentina’s Administrator for Administración Federal de Ingresos Públicos (AFIP) Ricardo Echegaray participated in a signing ceremony Wednesday establishing a trade transparency unit.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Secretary Kerry, welcome back. You continue to represent our country with passion and dedication, and I thank you for your tireless efforts. Since you were sworn in two years ago, you have worked diligently on both Middle East Peace and Iranian nuclear negotiations; faced nonstop crisis in Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine; and consistently worked to counter terrorism and advocate for human rights and humanitarian needs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Kenez K. Parks, 28, of Mt. Vernon, Illinois, was sentenced to 162 months in federal prison, to be followed by three years’ supervised release, and fined $150, on crack cocaine charges, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Cape Girardeau, MO - DAVID HILTON RUSH and JOHN LYN RUSH were sentenced Tuesday for illegally dealing in firearms. David Rush was sentenced to 36 months in prison and John Rush was sentenced to 36 months. Both men appeared before United States District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: DENVER - U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael J. Watanabe today ordered Thaddeus Cheyenne Murphy, age 44, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, to be held in custody without bond pending a resolution of his case. The U.S. Magistrate Judge ordered Murphy to be held because he was deemed both a danger to the community and a risk of flight. The U.S. District Court will next schedule a serious of hearing dates, that should be available later in the week.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Joe Gordon, age 30, of Fort Smith, was sentenced today to 130 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for the Distribution of Methamphetamine. The Honorable P. K. Holmes, III presided over the sentencing in the United States District Court in Fort Smith.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Two Defendants Allegedly Planned To Travel To Syria In Order To Join ISIL; One Defendant Arrested While Boarding A Flight To Turkey.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Defrauded Employer of $1,531,124.00 During Five-Year Period.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Employer name: William Trahant, Jr. Construction, Inc., roofing contractor, Lynn, Mass.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 60 months in prison for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of 100 grams or more of heroin, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By State Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following statement prior to Secretary of State John F. Kerry’s testimony at a committee hearing on the Fiscal Year 2016 international affairs budget...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, and U.S. Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), ranking member of the Committee on Homeland Security, announced the creation of a bipartisan Task Force on Combating Terrorist and Foreign Fighter Travel in...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Randolph Ingram, 55, of Detroit; and Rachel Jade Corrigan, 26, of Huntington, West Virginia, pleaded guilty to heroin charges.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Secretary Kerry, welcome back. You continue to represent our country with passion and dedication, and I thank you for your tireless efforts. Since you were sworn in two years ago, you have worked diligently on both Middle East Peace and Iranian nuclear negotiations; faced nonstop crisis in Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine; and consistently worked to counter terrorism and advocate for human rights and humanitarian needs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.) House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.), today introduced the Nuclear Terrorism Conventions Implementation and Safety of Maritime Navigation Act (H.R. 1056).
