News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO " Two defendants were sentenced today to federal prison terms for an investment fraud scheme in which they swindled more than $30 million from more than 100 investors in a purported voice-over-internet telecommunications business. One defendant, GAIL HOWARD, was sentenced to seven years in prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Belvidere, New Jersey, man today admitted he concealed a mortgage fraud scheme carried out by his wife, a former real estate title agent, in which they obtained seven loans, totaling more than $3.7 million, on two properties located in Belvidere and Wood-Ridge, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Sioux City brothers have been sentenced to federal prison after they were convicted by a federal jury in Sioux City on Aug. 29, 2014, following a two and one-half day jury trial.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the House passed H.R. 33, the Protecting Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Responders Act, introduced by Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA), which would ensure that emergency-service volunteers are not counted as full-time employees under Obamacare’s employer mandate. Upon passage, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: $5.15 Billion Plus Interest Paid To Trust.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Andres Garay, 27, of Providence, faces between 5 - 40 years in federal prison when he is sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge William E. Smith on April 10, 2015, having pleaded guilty today to possessing with the intent to deliver more than 100 grams of heroin, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Providence Police Chief Colonel Hugh T. Clements, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Joplin, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for attempting to entice a minor for illicit sexual activity. Erik Leroy Clark, 35, of Joplin, was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Appear.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Income tax return preparer Simon Makangula has been ordered to prison for willfully aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false income tax return for a client, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Lucy Cruz, special agent in charge of Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI). Makangula pleaded guilty Oct. 15, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: On the heels of the Obama Administration’s recently announced goal to cut methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40 - 45 percent from 2012 levels by 2025, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Neil Kornze today visited oil and gas fields in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Jan. 22, 2015, Ryan Lynn Nelson, age 31, of Clinton, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 144 months in prison for distribution, receipt and possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Nelson was also...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - At the conclusion of a twelve-day trial in Pensacola before Senior United States District Judge Roger Vinson, five defendants were convicted yesterday of a federal tax fraud scheme. A federal jury convicted John David Castleberry, 64, and Teresa Haggerty, 61, both formerly of Pensacola...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Jeffrey L. Shipley, age 48, of Millersville, Maryland today to 20 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for stealing and destroying mail while employed as a postal employee. Judge Hollander also entered an order that Shipley pay $19,358.75 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Mervyn A. Phelan, Sr., age 74, of Newport Beach, California, today to five years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for a wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud and obstruction of justice from a $17.4 million investment fraud scheme. Judge Motz ordered Phelan to forfeit and pay restitution of $17,414,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Kotzebue, Alaska man was sentenced in Federal Court in Anchorage on two counts of child sexual exploitation crimes. Culum Campbell was convicted of receipt and possession of child pornography. Campbell was using a peer to peer network to traffic child pornography, and had both distributed and received videos of children being sexually exploited.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) continually works with the aviation and medical communities to maintain medical certification standards that are intended to ensure that pilots are qualified to safely fly. On March 2, the FAA willissue new medical guidance to Aviation Medical Examiners (AMEs) ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: A team of NIST scientists has devised and demonstrated a novel nanoscale memory technology for superconducting computing that could hasten the advent of an urgently awaited, low-energy alternative to power-hungry conventional data centers and supercomputers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JABAR GILLIAM was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 20 years in prison for trafficking a 16 year-old girl (the “Victim") from Maryland to the Bronx and forcing her to engage in prostitution. GILLIAM...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a La Plant, South Dakota, man and woman have been indicted by a federal grand jury for Incest.
