News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Enrique Hernandez (34, Miami) today pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank and mail fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison. As part of the plea, Hernandez has agreed to make full restitution in the amount of $899,700, the approximate losses resulting from his role in the conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 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 Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the arrest of STEVEN RAWLINS, a former outside consultant to two healthcare...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis today sentenced John Dewey Todd (61, Fernandina Beach) to 19 years and 7 months in federal prison for producing and receiving child pornography over the Internet. The Court also ordered him to serve a 10-year term of supervision upon his release from prison and to register as a sex offender. Todd pleaded guilty to the offenses on Sept. 25, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: A Cedar Rapids man who sold heroin that caused a heroin overdose death was sentenced today to more than 30 years in federal prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) heard from inspectors general Tuesday how the independent watchdogs overseeing federal agencies can perform their work more effectively. Four inspectors general testified about their difficulty in getting information from agencies, about threats to their independence, and about the difficulties caused by long-term vacancies in inspector general posts.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) delivered remarks at a HELP Committee hearing: Recalibrating Regulation of Colleges and Universities: A Report from the Task Force on Government Regulation of Higher Education.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Reckay Haith, 26, of Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to six years in prison for prostituting and trafficking a 16-year-old girl and two adults between June 2014 and August 2014, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Andrew G. McCabe, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOE Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee, today issued the following opening statement at the hearing on the Interior Department’s $13.2 billion budget proposal.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Feb. 19, 2015, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 25 defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances in the municipality of Yauco, PR, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury today indicted a Dutch national on federal computer hacking and identity theft charges related to the theft of digital versions of three motion pictures.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today that Edwin Rigoberto Mayorga-Fajardo, 42, resident of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty yesterday to possession with attempt to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment against Sean Aude Gallman, age 38, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, and his brother Eric Maurice Gallman, age 41, of Huntersville, North Carolina, late yesterday, adding conspiracy to commit wire fraud, mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering charges arising from a scheme in which they filed 30 fraudulent tax returns seeking refunds of over $204 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A total of 12 drug traffickers have been handed federal prison sentences for their convictions related to a far-reaching drug trafficking conspiracy, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON- On Thursday, February 26th, The House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Healthcare, Benefits, and Administrative Rules will hold a hearing titled “From Healthcare Enrollment to Tax Filing: A PPACA Update".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Darlene Ford, 59, of Monroe, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 6½ years in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, for conspiring to manufacture marijuana, maintaining a drug involved premises, and aiding and abetting a felon in possession of a firearm. Ford was found guilty after a jury trial on February 6, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Royal Gorge Field Office is seeking public comments on two proposed carbon dioxide wells near Gardner.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Travis Cole Maxfield, 28, of Altamont, Illinois, pled guilty today to all charges against him in an indictment returned by a Federal Grand Jury in November 2014. All offenses relate to the production...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that STEPHEN GOODRICH, 57, of Rocky Hill, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today expressed shock and disbelief at Interior Secretary Sally Jewell’s continued failure to protect the health and safety of the people of King Cove, Alaska. Jewell blocked a land exchange in 2013 that would have provided community residents with reliable access to medical care in emergency situations, and has done nothing since to find an alternative.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Victor L. Coley, 52, of Upper Marlboro, Md., was found guilty by a jury today of four counts of assault with intent to kill while armed and other offenses for a broad daylight shooting that took place outside a shoe store in Northeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
