News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Jan. 29, 2015 - Brice N. Marchbanks a/k/a Bear, 32, of Nashville, Tennessee, was sentenced yesterday to more than 20 years in federal prison for his role as the leader of a long- running, violent crime and drug distribution conspiracy, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the ...
By Commerce 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 DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: Raleigh - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court yesterday, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced TINA LURETHA TYREE JOHNSON, 46, of Rocky Mount, North Carolina to 30 months imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release. On July 18, 2013, JOHNSON pled guilty to Tax Fraud and Aiding and Abetting in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 287 and 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: More Than 30 Defendants Charged and Convicted During Investigation.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) released the following statement following today’s Senate bipartisan passage of legislation to approve construction of the Keystone XL pipeline project...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: GREAT FALLS - The former Finance Manager of the Rocky Boy Health Board Clinic in Box Elder, Theodora Ann Morsette, 60, was convicted of three felony counts of embezzlement and theft for taking over $156,000 in federal monies provided to the tribe for the operation and services of the Clinic. Judge Brian Morris of Great Falls set sentencing for April 20, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - David Nixon, 50, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged today by superseding indictment with 84 counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of materially false income tax returns, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that the former branch manager of a Fulton, Mo., company has abeen sentenced in federal court for a $576,000 mortgage fraud and embezzlement scheme at the title company where she was employed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Jesse Dunn, 56, of Houston, is set to appear in federal court following the return of an eight-count indictment alleging a fraud scheme in connection with a major disaster, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury convicted Howard James Clem IV, a/k/a “Jamie," age 33, of Pasadena, Maryland, late yesterday for conspiracy to distribute and receive child pornography, and for receipt and possession of child pornography. U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis ordered that Clem be immediately taken into custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015. Follow @SDILNews. The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced that Abbe L. Terry, 51, of East Alton, Illinois, and Jacklyn McCormack, 26, of Belleville...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander, sentenced Tony Derrell Bunch, age 32, of Baltimore, today to 110 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury today returned an indictment charging Paula Laverne Gist, 67, of Warrensville Heights, with theft of public money, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: LITTLE ROCK - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and David Downing, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock District Office of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), announced that on Jan. 28, 2015, Amjad Kattom, 37, and Fadi Qtouf...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that PAUL E. GARDNER, age 57, a resident of New Orleans, pled guilty today to wire fraud regarding an embezzlement scheme which took place during GARDNER’s employment with Clovelly Oil Co., L.L.C. (“Clovelly Oil").
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO ― A northwest suburban man was sentenced today for engaging in a lengthy investment fraud scheme in which he and a co-defendant swindled approximately $105 million from 455 investors who invested in funds they purported to operate. The defendant, DANIEL SPITZER, pleaded guilty to 10 counts of...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, took to the Senate floor and urged his colleagues in Congress to quickly pass a clean, full fiscal-year appropriation bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today applauded the efforts of Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) upon the release of the “Innovation for Healthier Americans" Report.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today applauded the efforts of Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) upon the release of the “Innovation for Healthier Americans" Report.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2015
News Release: In El Paso today, U.S. District Judge Philip R. Martinez sentenced Thomas Gregory Harris of Friendswood, TX, to two years in federal prison for his scheme to defraud the Small Business Administration (SBA) with respect to “Section 8(a) program" contracts 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.
