News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, Jan. 12, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M, Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARIA ROSA ESTEVES, 41, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement on the FY2015 Homeland Security Appropriations Act and immigration-related policy riders.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement on the House Republicans' Homeland Security funding bill for FY2015...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Richard Arthur Evans, M.D., 70, and David D. Devido, R.Ph., 76, both of Houston, have been charged in a 24-count indictment alleging a conspiracy to commit distribution of controlled substances, mail fraud, health care fraud and money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson along...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Alfonso Castellon, 41, of Bakersfield, was sentenced today to two and a half years in prison by Senior United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii for counterfeiting U.S. currency and possessing images for counterfeiting purposes, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: Robbed Over a Dozen Convenience Stores, Gas Stations and Restaurants in Five Months,.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - The Director of Technical and Development Operations at a South Boston-based media technology company was charged today in connection with his alleged theft of nearly one million dollars’ worth of iPads and other Apple products from his employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: ROCKFORD - A former Sandwich, Ill. business owner pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to a charge of making a false statement to a financial institution. The defendant, STEVEN J. MOORHOUSE, 62, was President and majority owner of Jefsco Manufacturing Co., Inc., a manufacturing business.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Victor D. Rome, 39, from the Pensacola area, was sentenced in federal court today on drug trafficking conspiracy charges. Rome was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge M. Casey Rodgers to 280 months’ imprisonment and 10 years of supervision upon his release. The sentence was announced today by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - A.D. Wright, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces that a federal jury has found Richard (45, Viera) guilty of attempting to help distribute one kilogram...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Crystal Graham, 42, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today to 12 months in prison and was ordered to pay restitution of $266,243 to the IRS for filing false claims with the United States through federal income tax returns she prepared. Graham pleaded guilty on Sept. 22, 2014, to 11 counts of filing false claims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Hutchinson woman pleaded guilty Monday to filing a false tax return and violating a federal law prohibiting her from having a gun, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: In celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday, Jan. 19, 2015, Yosemite National Park will waive all entrance fees. The fee free day is available to all visitors in honor of Dr. King's life and legacy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Joey Jamal Braggs, also known as “Fresh," 30, of Huntington, West Virginia, was sentenced to 12 months and one day in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - David Arreola Villareal, 29, of Michoacàn, Mexico, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to manufacture, distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana grown on public land and possessing a firearm in furtherance of the conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and incoming Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today issued the following response to the president’s announcement on data security at the Federal Trade Commission...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Gary R. Latray, 54, of Syracuse, NY, pleaded guilty to aggravated bank robbery before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan) becomes the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture Nutrition and Forestry, there is widespread support from Kansas and national agriculture leaders for Roberts’ chairmanship.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A Naperville man who worked for a U.S. military contractor pleaded guilty today to stealing U.S. military computer and communications equipment worth more than $332,000 from a military air base in Afghanistan and later selling and shipping almost half of the high-end equipment to vendors in the United States for re-sale.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Benjamin K. Bray, age 30, of Davidsonville, Maryland, to eight years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and oxycodone and to being a felon in possession of an explosive device.
