News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - The United States Attorney's Office announced today that Bellante Properties, of Lehigh County, PA, and its owners Vincent Fantozzi and Bernard Fantozzi, will pay the government $19,120 to resolve allegations surrounding federally-funded rental assistance payments it received. According...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Forty Individuals Arrested and Indicted for Social Security Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Jan. 13, 2015, Austin Michael Stallard, 19, of Kingsport, Tenn., was sentenced by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 121 months in federal prison for his role in an a-PVP (alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone) distribution conspiracy centered in and around...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement regarding a new report from the Inclusive Prosperity Commission laying out concrete policy proposals to promote broadly shared prosperity in the United States. The commission was convened 18 months ago by the Center on American Progress.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015. Follow @SDILNews. Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Jan. 15, 2015, Tina L. White, 46, of Haverhill, FL was sentenced in the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Defendants Trafficked Women And A Minor Girl From Mexico And Forced Them To Work In Prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Savannah, GA: Eric Arrana-Garcia, 39, a citizen of Mexico who previously lived in Blackshear, Georgia, was sentenced last week by United States District Judge William T. Moore, Jr. to 18 years in prison for his role in a meth conspiracy operating in southeast Georgia and elsewhere. Arrana-Garcia is the ...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Calling all youth! The National Park Service invites 18-25 year olds across the country to apply to participate in the 50th anniversary commemorative walking classroom that honors the events andpeople of the successful 1965 civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: (BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that April Kane, - 29, formerly of Bucksport, Maine was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Entrance fees to Glacier National Park, as well as other units of the National Park Service, will be waived on Monday, Jan. 19, in commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Qazi brothers, naturalized U.S. citizens originally from Pakistan, were charged today with additional terrorism violations and attempted murder of two Deputy U.S. Marshals while the brothers were in custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: BILLINGS - A Wheatland, Wyoming man who stole 688 pounds of explosives from the U.S. Forest Service has been sentenced to 36 months in prison followed by 3 years supervised release. Budd Nesius, 33, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Susan Waters after pleading guilty to possession of stolen explosives. In addition, Nesius was ordered to pay restitution to the U.S. Forest Service in the amount of $1,234.65.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: This week, Grand Teton National Park advanced a riverbank restoration project to remove approximately 13 tons of old angle iron beams from the Buffalo Fork of the Snake River. Motorists traveling Highway 26/287 past Moran Junction may see a piece of heavy equipment-a tracked excavator-along the riverbank as this restoration project continues.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that the current head of the Mexican drug trafficking organization, the Gulf Cartel, or Cartel del Golfo, has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges in the Eastern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former real estate title agent admitted yesterday to carrying out a mortgage fraud scheme in which she obtained seven loans, totaling more than $3.7 million, on two properties located in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey and Belvidere, New Jersey.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Marcellus Overton, 39, of Niagara Falls, NY, was arrested and charged with sex trafficking of a minor and transportation of a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity. The charges carry a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison and a maximum of life.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: ROSS, N.D. - For the eighth time, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Northern Excavating Co. for allowing its employees to work at great risk in trenches without cave-in protection and a safe means to exit the trench.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Brian P. Davis, age 50, of Dundalk, Maryland, today to 210 months in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for distribution of child pornography. Judge Quarles ordered that upon his release from prison, Davis must...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 28-year-old inmate at the United States Penitentiary Canaan in Waymart, Pennsylvania, who admitted to assaulting a fellow inmate with the intent to commit murder, was sentenced to the statutory maximum of 20 years in prison today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that yesterday a federal grand jury in Harrisburg, returned an indictment against Albert E. Martinez, age 34, a resident of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. The indictment charges Martinez with sex trafficking of a minor, transportation of an individual to engage in prostitution, and transportation of a minor with the intent to engage in sexual activity.
