News from February 2015

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Jeremy “Jerry" Clark, a former member of the DeKalb County Zoning Board of Appeals, has pleaded guilty to a federal bribery charge. Clark accepted money in exchange for his vote allowing a business to operate as a late-night dance club.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Heather Lynn Carter, a/k/a “Hunnilyn," age 30, of Columbia, Maryland, to 63 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to participate in a racketeering conspiracy, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, in connection with her membership in the Bloods gang operating primarily out of Howard County, Maryland.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - James Nelson, 31, of Washington, D.C., has pled guilty to various crimes committed in a far-reaching identity theft and tax fraud scheme in which he and others filed fraudulent federal income tax returns seeking more than $1.1 million in refunds, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida -United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Adam Parrish (35, Naples) has pleaded guilty to an Information charging him with seven counts of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, three counts of aggravated identify theft, and three counts of improper use of a DEA...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: Allegedly filed and cashed at least 698 fraudulent income tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Dallas man was sentenced Tuesday to 170 months in prison for transporting a minor to Bossier City, La., for prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The owner of a Glendora egg donation and surrogacy company pleaded guilty late this afternoon to a federal wire fraud charge and admitted defrauding would-be parents, egg donors and surrogates over the course of more than three years.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that LAVERNE ROSE, age 69, of New Orleans, pled guilty yesterday to theft of government funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Heather Lynn Carter, a/k/a “Hunnilyn," age 30, of Columbia, Maryland, to 63 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to participate in a racketeering conspiracy, and possession of a firearm ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: (HARTFORD, Conn. - United States Attorney Deirdre M. Daly, Chief State’s Attorney Kevin T. Kane, Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Feb. 18, 2015, Jackie Pieter Boer, age 67, of Eugene, Oregon, was sentenced to nine months imprisonment by Judge Robert W. Pratt, for failing to file a tax return for the year 1984, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Carmen Dozier, 38, of Middletown Springs, pleaded not guilty today in United States District Court in Burlington to federal fraud charges. U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy released Dozier on conditions pending trial, which has not been scheduled.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: Defendant was One of 29 Defendants Charged with Trafficking Drugs in San Juan County in February 2014 as a Result of Multi-Agency Investigation.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Viviane Cazeau (36, Massachusetts) has pleaded guilty to bank fraud. She faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging a West Virginia man with fabricating his own death in an effort to desert from the U.S. Coast Guard, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DERRICK MORGAN, age 37, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to bank robbery and use of a dangerous weapon in commission of same.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today announced witnesses for the Committee’s first hearing of the 114th Congress on the “Agricultural Act of 2014 Implementation after One Year and Farm Credit Administration Nominations."

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: Cranston Police, DEA Investigation Results In The Discovery And Dismantling.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. United States Attorney Deirdre M. Daly, Chief State’s Attorney Kevin T. Kane, Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ASA BOYD, 35, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm.