News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - ―Twin brothers Pedro and Margarito Flores, regarded as Chicago’s most significant drug traffickers who rose from street level dealers to the highest echelons of the Mexico-based Sinaloa Cartel and a rival cartel before they began providing unparalleled cooperation to the Drug Enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A tax preparer in Johnson County was sentenced Tuesday to 78 months in federal prison for filing false tax returns that cost a Kansas company more than $744,000, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: Contact: Steve Young. A former postal services employee who stole mail pled guilty Jan. 23, 2015, in federal court in Sioux City. Danny D. Miller, 55, from Ventura, Iowa, was convicted of theft of mail by a postal services employee. At the plea hearing, Miller admitted that from about May 2013 through...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: Washington - Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.) announced subcommittee members to its three subcommittees for the 114th Congress; Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management, and the Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management. The Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of the Full Committee are also ex-officio members of every Subcommittee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: Defendant Ordered to Pay $365,827.00 in Restitution to U.S. Postal Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: RALEIGH - 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, 35, of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Deborah Williamson, 37, a former resident of Wheelock who now lives in Florida, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Brattleboro to four months of imprisonment following her guilty plea to a charge of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JOSE EDGARDO CANALES-MADRID, age 25, a citizen of Honduras, was charged today in a one-count Bill of Information with illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: Superintendent David Hallac announced today that between February 1 and March 30, 2015, weather and conditions permitting, National Park Service fire management staff, as part of the Outer Banks Group Fire Management Plan, will conduct prescribed burning on sections of Bodie Island within Cape Hatteras...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Valorie Shaw pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco today to conspiracy to file false claims, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County business owner has been sentenced in federal court to four years probation, which will include one year of home confinement, and ordered to pay a $45,000 fine, on his conviction of conspiracy and tax evasion, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: The House of Representatives is taking action this week to strengthen support for victims of youth sex trafficking. Congress has been debating a number of bipartisan proposals that would enhance existing aid for runaway and homeless youth and improve identification and assessment of child sex trafficking ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Frank Currington, formerly of Pittsburgh, Pa. was sentenced to 60 months in prison for conspiring to distribute over 100 grams of heroin, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: For the first time in half a century, NIST's 4.45-million newton (equivalent to one million pounds-force) deadweight machine - the largest in the world - is being disassembled for cleaning, restoration, and recalibration. The first stage of the process, dismantling the top half of the three-story stack of weights, is now complete and the individual pieces are being cleaned in preparation for recalibration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the former owner of a Kansas City, Mo., clinic was sentenced in federal court today for a $3 million Medicare fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: Chief Ranger Holly Rife and Law Enforcement Ranger John Kempisty have retired from the National Park Service effective Dec. 31, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: Operation Homeless. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that three men have been sentenced for their roles in a bank fraud conspiracy that used homeless men to cash counterfeit payroll checks at banks in the Kansas City area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Jan. 22, 2015, Peter Ron Acuna, 26, of Tucson, Ariz., a member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Rosemary Marquez to 70 months of imprisonment, to be followed by a three year term of supervised release. Acuna pleaded guilty on April 23, 2014 to assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: ROCKFORD - A former Sycamore, Ill. resident pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to possessing child pornography. MICHAEL PODOLSKY, 27, now of Elkader, Iowa, admitted in the written plea agreement that on and prior to July 12, 2013, he owned and was in possession of a computer at his home in Sycamore that contained more than 600 images of children engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - The grand jury returned indictments charging 13 people in connection with four separate tax fraud schemes, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez.
