News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: SAN JOSE - Victor Manuel Rodriguez, a/k/a "Silencer," was sentenced today to 38 years in prison for Racketeering Conspiracy, including conspiracy to commit murder, Possession/Use of a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence, Use of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence Resulting in Murder, and Distribution of Methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has indicted Georgina Fisher, also known as Georgina Baratta, 44, of Niagara Falls, NY, on charges of causing a financial institution to fail to file transaction reports. The charges carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that Senior U.S. District Judge James J. Brady has sentenced RAM ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, LLC, RAYMOND MARCEL, JR., and CYRIL D. ROBICHEAUX, for their roles in a criminal scheme to violate the federal environmental laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Two Stockton residents were indicted today for a conspiracy to fraudulently obtain tax refunds, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jervis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Monroe County man pleaded guilty today in United States District Court in Scranton, before Senior United States District Judge Edwin M. Kosik, to heroin trafficking and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury today returned an indictment in U.S. District Court charging Stephanie Laverne Washington, 46, and Carolyn Badley-Pinson, 56, both of Cleveland, with bank fraud, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL J. MITROW, Jr., pled guilty today to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for defrauding his former employer, a New Jersey-based pharmaceutical marketing agency (the “Marketing Agency"), and co-defendant...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - JACK FRISON, SR. was sentenced to twenty-four months of imprisonment on multiple charges relating to his involvement in the sale of counterfeit goods and DVDs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: Contact: Steve Young. Two men who conspired to distribute methamphetamine were each sentenced Jan. 26, 2015, to more than 11 years in federal prison. Isaias Vasquez-Amaya, age 31, of Crystal, Minnesota, received the prison term after a Nov. 13, 2014, guilty plea, and Jose Nicolas Vasquez-Mendez...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - On Jan. 28, 2015, Willard John, 36, of Cibecue, Arizona, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Judge James A. Teilborg to life imprisonment. On July 11, 2014, John was found guilty by a jury of second degree murder.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: To understand diseases like Parkinson's, the tiniest of puzzles may hold big answers. That's why a team including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have determined* how two potentially key pieces of the Parkinson's puzzle fit together, in an effort to reveal how the still poorly understood illness develops and affects its victims.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, led by U.S. Sens. Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), 26 Democratic senators reaffirmed their support for updating overtime rules to ensure more middle-class workers are paid fairly...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: Dear Commissioner Koskinen: In recent days, you have threatened that the 2015 tax filing season will be “miserable" due to the Internal Revenue Service’s tightened budget and decision “to do less with less" in light of the recent three percent reduction in your agency’s annual budget. In a January 13...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, issued the following statement regarding the completion of the FCC’s Spectrum Auction, which was created under the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Economic Policy, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent letters to Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citibank, and Goldman Sachs requesting information...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: (BOSTON - New England Field Division Acting Special Agent in Charge Michael J. Ferguson and U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz announced that the United States reached a civil settlement yesterday with Performance Nutrition, a Seekonk, Mass.-based business that sells nutritional supplements online and in retail stores in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island, in connection with civil drug diversion allegations.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla - A second explosion in four months at the Indianhead Biomass Services plant in St. Augustine has left two laborers severely burned. An inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found that two men in their 50s attempted to shut down...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that MECHELLE STANTON WOODS, age 44, of Laplace, was sentenced today for her role in a conspiracy to defraud the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (“GCCF") in the aftermath of the BP oil spill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - A 20-year-old Mesquite, Texas, man appeared in federal court today before Chief U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis and pleaded guilty to one count of production of child pornography, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
