News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Orlando residents Shawn Lamonte Robinson (42) and Corey Jamaal Woodard (37) guilty of conspiracy to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine, and aiding and abetting an attempt to possess with intent...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, senior Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, applauded the World Trade Organization decision today, a decision that awarded a complete win for the United States in its challenge to restrictions Argentina imposed on imports of more than 600 products exported by American companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Charles Weber, 59, of Snyder, NY, with making and subscribing a false tax return. The charges carry a maximum penalty of three years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By State Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: HERSHEY, Pennsylvania - Appearing on Bloomberg Television with Peter Cook from the Senate-House Republican retreat today, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) discussed some of the major issues facing Congress in the year ahead including Iran nuclear discussions, an authorization for the use of military ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County man pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of receipt of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: (BOSTON - A Miami man operating throughout South Florida was sentenced on January 9, 2015, for his role in an oxycodone distribution conspiracy involving thousands of oxycodone pills and stolen identities of Puerto Rican residents.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.) released the following statement after General Services Administration (GSA) Administrator, Dan Tangherlini, announced he will be leaving the agency next month...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss - Jamie Jackson, 44, of Mendenhall, was convicted by a federal jury on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015, of six counts of theft of government funds and six counts of wire fraud for carrying out a scheme to defraud the Army out of recruitment incentive payments, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Kevin Feldis announced today that an Anchorage woman has been sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary Scriven today sentenced Mario Manzur Reyes (31, Tampa) and Santos Rene Herrera-Cruz (50, Tampa) for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. Reyes was sentenced to five years and ten months in federal prison. Herrera-Cruz was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. Both pleaded guilty in September 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Orlando residents Shawn Lamonte Robinson (42) and Corey Jamaal Woodard (37) guilty of conspiracy to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine, and aiding and abetting an attempt to possess with intent...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Trails and Rails Program Expands to San Jose.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON ---- The former Executive Director of International Adoption Guides Inc. (IAG), an adoption agency, pleaded guilty yesterday to making false and fraudulent statements to the Council on Accreditation with respect to IAG’s accreditation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Anthony Stoner, 29, of Gillette, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on Jan. 14, 2015, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine and for possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Stoner was...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: SPOKANE - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Gabriel Joseph Andrew, age 28, of Wellpinit, Washington, was sentenced today after having previously pleaded guilty on September 4, 2014 to one count of Assault Resulting in Substantial Bodily Injury...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge Harvey E. Schlesinger has sentenced Mark Steven Szekely (54, Ponte Vedra) to nine years in federal prison for wire fraud. The Court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $454,972.65, the traceable proceeds of the offense, and ordered him to pay restitution to his victims in the same amount. Szekely pleaded guilty on Oct. 14, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. Yellowstone National Park. P.O. Box 168. Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190. Jan. 15, 2015 15-003. Al Nash. (307) 344-2015. YELL_Public_Affairs@nps.gov. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK NEWS RELEASE. Yellowstone Begins Bison Capture Operations. Yellowstone...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson today made the following statement after the introduction of the “Free Trade with Cuba Act" in the U.S. House of Representatives. Peterson is an original co-sponsor of the legislation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that GENORD PERRY, age 36, of Hammond, was charged today in a five-count Indictment for violations of the Federal Controlled Substances Act and the Federal Gun Control Act. Specifically, PERRY was charged with three counts of distributing a quantity of heroin...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: REAL ESTATE SCAM, FALSELY OBTAINING $3.5 MILLION.
