News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 26 indictments charging 26 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Kency Aime (29, Biscayne Park) has pleaded guilty to one count of access device (debit card) fraud and nine counts of identity theft. He faces a maximum penalty of 55 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: A man who submitted a fraudulent insurance claim after deliberately setting fire to his vacant home pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Arnold Threet, age 50, of Baltimore today to 10 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for bank robbery. Chief Judge Blake also ordered Threet to pay restitution of $8,935.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md.-MedImmune, the global biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca, and the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced the signing of a five-year agreement to jointly support research that will help advance drug discovery...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Nicholas M. Skvarla, of Greece, NY, was found guilty of receipt and possession of child pornography by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara following a non-jury trial. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison and a maximum of 20 years and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JUAN RAMON ALVAREZ-MARTINEZ, a/k/a Juan Ramon-Alvarez, age 37, from Honduras, pled guilty yesterday to a one-count Indictment charging illegal reentry of removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas attorney was arrested this morning on felony charges, outlined in a federal indictment returned by a grand jury earlier this week and unsealed today, stemming from her work in representing aliens, that is, non-U.S. citizens, before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizen and Immigration Service (USCIS), announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Orlando Harvey, 24, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Bloomfield, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to a sexual abuse of a minor charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: Scheme Targeted Thousands of Investors Nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: EAST ST. LOUIS, IL - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge, James P. Shroba announced today that Frank R. Johnson, a/k/a “Mo," 45, of Elkville, IL, was sentenced for his involvement in a heroin conspiracy in the Southern District of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Wichita, Kan., attorney is among five defendants who have pleaded guilty in federal court this week to their roles in a multi-million dollar scheme to transport hundreds of thousands of cartons of contraband cigarettes from the Kansas City, Mo., area to the state of New York, where they were sold primarily on Indian reservations.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: A man who sold guns and heroin from the basement apartment of a home in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to six years in prison and three years of supervised release, announced Acting United States Attorney Annette L. Hayes. JORGE CARLOS CAMPS, 34, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, Feb. 20, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that BRIAN VANACORE, 49, of North Branford, GREG BODYTKO, 55, of Northford, were sentenced yesterday...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: On Feb. 20, 2015, Frank R. Johnson, a/k/a “Mo," 45, of Elkville, Ill., was sentenced for his involvement in a heroin conspiracy the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: DEFENDANT SENTENCED FOR THEFT OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY AND AGGRAVATED IDENTITY THEFT.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Economic Policy, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Commissioner J. Christopher Giancarlo of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: TYLER, Texas - U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that a former executive has been indicted for making false declarations before court in a civil trade secrets case in the Eastern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: Firearm Discharged during Robbery of Buckroe Beach Market and Osming Buffet.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of February 23. The committee will hear testimony from the heads of the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Health and Human Services on their 2016 budgets. Members will also discuss the future of the Internet, abusive patent demand letters, and drinking water systems in small communities.
