News from January 2015
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: The U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, chaired by U.S. Rep, Bill Shuster (R-PA), and the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, chaired by U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK), will hold a joint hearing next week to examine the impacts on state and local governments of a proposed rule to expand federal regulation of waters under the Clean Water Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that Tavaris Delino Battle, 30, of Elm City, Tony Marichal Sharp, 31, of Sharpsburg, Byron Dale Whitaker, 23, of Sharpsburg, Gregory Devonte Robertson, 20, of Rocky Mount, Natalie Baker Lynch, 33, of Roanoke Rapids, Tremayne A. Lynch, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Elmar Rakhamimov, a/k/a “Eric Rakhamimov," age 42, of Owings Mills, Maryland, and his brother, Salim Yusufov, age 43, of Reisterstown, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to a conspiracy to traffic over $6.6 million in contraband cigarettes. Rakhamimov also pleaded guilty to trafficking in contraband cigarettes and distribution of oxycodone. Yusufov also pleaded guilty to health care fraud and to receipt and delivery of misbranded drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Somerville man was sentenced today for leading an armed robbery conspiracy and possessing an illegal firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Travis Lamont Phelps, age 46, of Greenbelt, Maryland today to 25 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for misuse of a social security account number and aggravated identity theft. Judge Chasanow also ordered Phelps to pay restitution of $5,480.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Monmouth County doctor with practices in Colts Neck, New Jersey, and Staten Island, New York, today admitted accepting bribes in exchange for test referrals as part of a long-running and elaborate scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: In Midland and Odessa this morning, authorities arrested 23 individuals on federal drug and firearms charges announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, El Paso Division, and Midland Police Chief Price Robinson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: A grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Kison Robertson, 23, of Cleveland, with escape from Oriana Halfway House, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: In Midland today, U.S. District Judge Robert A. Junell sentenced 25-year-old Jordan Reese Brashear of Odessa, to 33 months in federal prison for robbing a local credit union ATM announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist, El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, PR -This morning, federal agents in coordination with Colombian law enforcement authorities simultaneously executed arrest warrants in Puerto Rico, Florida, and Colombia, dismantling an international drug trafficking and money laundering organization responsible for the importation of multi-kilogram...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON- In support of the Administration’s effort to double renewable energy generation for a second time by 2020, the Energy Department announced more than $59 million in funding to support solar energy innovation today. The Department is making $45 million in funding available to quickly move innovative...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WILLIAM DONG, 23, of Fairfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: Renata Nicole Annese stole over $800,000.00 in a credit card fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Delbert Daniel George, 31, of Lapwai, Idaho, was sentenced today to 57 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for making false statements to a federal official and failing to appear in court, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Visiting U.S. District Judge Fremming Nielsen ordered George to spend 36 months in prison for lying to federal agents and a consecutive 21 months for George’s failure to appear for sentencing on that charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - A Fort Worth man convicted for running a fraudulent oil and gas Ponzi scheme was sentenced today, announced Acting U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a man residing at the Winner Work Release Program in Winner, South Dakota, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Criminal Trespass.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: LEXINGTON, KY - A Lexington, Ky., man, who previously admitted to leading a conspiracy to use stolen identities to file false federal income tax returns, has been sentenced to 175 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Convinced Victims to Give Him Over $1.9 Million from Retirement Savings, Lines of Credit and Refinanced Mortgages in the False Promise of Receiving Higher Investment Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: TALLAHASSEE - James Corder, 54, a former captain with the Gadsden County Sheriff’s Office, has been convicted on charges of violating the civil rights of an arrestee, obstruction of justice, and making false statements in a federal investigation. The convictions were announced by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
