News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: Jackson, Miss -Otis McGee, 31, of Choctaw, Mississippi, pled guilty on Jan. 29, 2015, before U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate, to one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today. The crime occurred on the Tribal lands of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. McGee will be sentenced on April 26, 2015 and faces a maximum penalty of ten years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska-U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that the lead defendant of a drug conspiracy involving nine individuals pled guilty in federal court today. Six of the eight other co-conspirators have previously pled guilty to federal drug charges or been sentenced for their roles in the conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: Felicia Anne Straub, 42, of Easton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to six years in prison for three counts of wire fraud, one count of aggravated identity theft, and one count of tax evasion. Between September 5, 2006 and Dec. 26, 2010, Straub was the office manager of Financial Adjuster’s, Inc. She embezzled FAI funds of at least $459,332 and used the money to pay for personal purchases of goods and services and to pay her husband’s personal credit card bills.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney=s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that twelve individuals previously charged either by indictment or information have all been sentenced in federal court in Scranton. The federal charges involved conspiracy to commit bank fraud, money laundering, and the manufacture of marijuana in Northeastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The last of the defendants, Antonio Figueredo was sentenced on Jan. 26, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - The former chief executive officer of the bankrupt Sentinel Management Group, Inc., was sentenced today to 14 years, and the firm’s former head trader was sentenced to eight years, in federal prison for defrauding hundreds of victims, including customers of Sentinel’s own clients, of more than...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Philip DeBartolo, 30, of Scituate, was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of 12 firearms, and manufacturing and distributing marijuana, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Daniel J. Kumor, Special Agent in Charge of the Boston Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite, DEA Special Agent in Charge Raymond “Keith" Brown, FBI Special Agent in Charge Michael Anderson, Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro, New Orleans Police Superintendent Michael Harrison, and Louisiana State Probation and Parole District Administrator Frank Palestina announce the results of Operation “Wild Wild East.".
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: A new computer-based fire-dynamics study by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has helped to clarify the circumstances and violent fire behavior of a lethal 2011 blaze in a San Francisco hillside home. The fire in the multi-story, single-family dwelling claimed the lives of two firefighters.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Philip DeBartolo, 30, of Scituate, was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of 12 firearms, and manufacturing and distributing marijuana, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Daniel J. Kumor, Special Agent in Charge of the Boston Field Divisionof the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOL Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: Jan. 30, 2015BOS 2015-020. NEW YORK - About a year ago, New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Medical Center in Northern Manhattan replaced linen laundry bags with thin plastic bags that broke and needlessly exposed workers to laundry contaminated with blood, bodily fluids and other infectious materials.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: Grand Canyon, Arizona. - Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015 Grand Canyon National Park will open the permit lottery for 2016 Noncommerical River Trip launch dates. Applications will be accepted online through noon Mountain Standard Time on Feb. 24, 2015. A nonrefundable fee of $25 is required to enter the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: CINCINNATI - Stewart M. Kidwell, 37, of Blanchester, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 30 years in prison for production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U. S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a licensed pharmacist was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for attempting to weaponize the lethal toxins Ricin and Abrin and for possessing a prohibited flask intending to use it to manufacture illegal narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Michael Hayes, 24, of Bolton, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy S. Hillman to 40 months in prison and eight years of supervised release for possession of child pornography. The court scheduled a hearing in March 2015 on the issue of restitution. Hayes pleaded guilty to the charge in September 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A former JetBlue Airways employee was sentenced yesterday for smuggling thousands of dollars of what he believed to be drug money past security checkpoints at Logan International Airport.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: HOMESTEAD, FLORIDA -The first annual Homestead Eco-Fair will take place on Saturday, February 7, 2015 from 12:00 noon to 3:00 p.m. at Losner Park in downtown Homestead. It will be a perfect day to enjoy several free activities with the family.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a dispatcher with the Shreveport Fire Department was sentenced to 25 months in prison for possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Leslie R. Caldwell, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, announced that MAXIM CHUKHAREV was sentenced today to three years in prison for conspiring to operate an unlicensed money...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On Jan. 28, 2015 a Federal Grand Jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a six count indictment charging nine individuals for the murder of Lieutenant Osvaldo Albarati-Casañas, a Federal Bureau of Prisons Correctional Officer, announced United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, Rosa Emilia Rodríguez Vélez.
