News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton. Jr. today sentenced Matthew C. Graziotti (43, Edgewater) to 210 years in federal prison for producing, distributing, and possessing child pornography. The Court also ordered him to serve a lifetime of supervision following his release from prison and to forfeit the electronic devices that he had used to commit the crimes. Graziotti pleaded guilty on Oct. 30, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Two West Virginia residents were convicted of tax fraud today in federal court, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Leonard E. Williams, 52, of Sacramento, was sentenced today to over seven years and three months in prison for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and two counts of money laundering, in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Williams was found guilty on July 24, 2014, by a federal jury after a six-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Demarco R. Bradberry, 37, of Detroit, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, and was subsequently sentenced to 66 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: A promising new technology sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for economically capturing 90 percent of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted from a coal-burning power plant has begun pilot-scale testing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Olusegun Adebiyi, age 42, of Lanham, Maryland, today to 39 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft arising from a fraud scheme to obtain precious metals using stolen personal information of two victims. Judge Chasanow also entered an order that Adebiyi pay $122,500 in restitution.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: A new publication from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides guidance for organizations to improve security as employees move to mobile devices such as phones and tablets for their work and their applications ("mobile apps").
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana announced that RACE ADDINGTON, 49, of Houston, Texas, was charged today in a two-count Bill of Information with making false statements to agencies or departments of the United States in relation to the veracity of blowout preventer testing on an offshore oil and gas platform located at Ship Shoal 225 located on a federal mineral lease in the Gulf of Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. Follow @SDILNews. Kevin D. Dowell, 38, of St. Louis, Missouri, pled guilty to failure to surrender for service of a sentence the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on Friday, Jan. 23, SCOTT MYRIE, also known as “Venom," 27, of Bedford Hills, N.Y., was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Composite Engineering Inc., a Sacramento-based subsidiary of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions that manufactures remote-controlled subscale aircraft for the U.S. military, has agreed to pay the United States $2 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting inflated costs in connection with a 2007 contract, United States Attorney Benjamin Wagner announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that James Craig Lebo, 46, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced on Jan. 23, 2015, in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 60 months in prison by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard, for possessing child pornography. Jones was also ordered to complete a ten-year term of supervised release after serving his prison sentence. Jones will also be required to register as a sex offender for the remainder of his life.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Devon Holmes, a 26 year-old New York City man, was sentenced today to five years imprisonment by Judge William K. Sessions III in federal district court in Burlington. Holmes pleaded guilty to causing a young local woman to buy two handguns for him from a South Burlington, Vermont, firearms dealer in 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: Contact: Steve Young. An alien who illegally reentered the United States after being deported and used fraudulent document to obtain employment was sentenced today to two years in federal prison. Jaime Rodriguez-Andres, also known as Alejandro Govea-Salvador, age 41, a Mexican citizen living in Waterloo...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: Jackson, Tenn. -Edward L. Stanton III, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee; A. Todd McCall, Special Agent in Charge of the Memphis Division of the FBI; Steve Isbell, Chief of Police for the Dyersburg Police Department; and Jeff Box, Sheriff of Dyer County, announced today the ...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: MOSS POINT, Miss. - Two temporary workers hired to cut and weld pipes at the Omega Protein plant in Moss Point on July 28, 2014, had no idea and had no training to know that the storage tank beneath them contained explosive methane and hydrogen sulfide gases. One of the two men found out later as he lay in a hospital with a fractured skull, internal injuries and broken bones. The second, a 25-year-old man named Jerry Taylor, died when the tank exploded.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that an Anchorage, Alaska man was sentenced in Federal Court in Anchorage on two counts of child sexual exploitation crimes. Kevin Callander was convicted of producing child pornography depicting a 10 year old girl. Callander’s victimization...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Emilio Padilla, 24, of Taumalipas, Mexico, two counts of being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A federal jury sitting in McAllen convicted Padilla on Oct. 24, 2014, following a two-day trial and less than an hour of deliberation.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: Glacier National Park, Flathead National Forest and Montana West Economic Development/Montana Procurement Technical Assistance Center are hosting a public workshop on government contracting on Thursday, February 5, 10 a.m. -12 p.m. at Flathead Valley Community College.
