News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: OAKLAND - Akysha Rockwell pleaded guilty in federal court today for her role in a false tax refund scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez.
By State Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following major fraud and bribery charges against former employees of two prominent USAID contractors, International Relief and Development (IRD) and the Louis Berger Group, Inc. (LBG), U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is asking the Obama ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: (BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Barry Diaz -, 32, of Stamford, Connecticut, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Richard Hollern Sentenced for Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Sixty alleged members and associates of the Mexico-based Sinaloa Cartel - including the highest ranking leaders, lieutenants and operators of multiple distribution cells - are charged in 14 indictments unsealed today with trafficking huge quantities of methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and marijuana to points around the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - John Winton Harris, 31, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to 21 years and 10 months in prison for possessing more than 163 grams of crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Defrauded Investors out of Over Thirty-Million Dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Kenneth Narzikul, 60, of Media, PA, was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for committing major fraud against the United States, obstructing a federal audit, and making false claims to the government, in connection with defense contracts to manufacture components for military helicopters.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, announced the sentencing of Pedro Rodríguez-Colondres to 18 months in prison by United States District Court Judge Francisco A. Besosa. Rodríguez-Colondres pled guilty to Theft of Government Funds in violation of 18 USC 641. As part of the sentencing the defendant was ordered to pay the US Department of Veteran’s Affairs $550,849.92 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Steven Phelps (40, Sarasota) to 15 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 24, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Kyle, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession of Firearms by a Prohibited Person.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: DENVER -- As part of a landmark settlement agreement announced by Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell in November 2014, the Bureau of Land Management today canceled 17 of the 19 leases on top of the Roan Plateau. The settlement agreement included refunding approximately $47.6 million in bonus bids...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person and Possession of a Stolen Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Roger Dale Young Lied About His Income and Resources So That He Would Receive a Larger Disability Check Each Month.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that Christopher Shawn Warnock (43, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography over the Internet. He faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 5 years, up to 20 years, in federal prison, and a potential...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Kevin Feldis announced today that Samuel Peguero, aka “Niño", a citizen of the Dominican Republic residing in Alaska, was sentenced to 13 months imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for his role in a $25 million tax fraud and drug conspiracy.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following statement in response to USTR’s review of the progress Bangladesh has made in implementing the Action Plan laid out in June 2013, when President Obama suspended the country’s Generalized System of Preferences...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The U.S. Department of Justice is now accepting applications from individuals and organizations interested in serving as the federal monitor of the Newark Police Department (NPD), U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Vanita Gupta announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Larry J. Wszalek for the Department of Justice's Tax Division, U.S. Attorney S. Amanda Marshall for the District of Oregon and Chief Richard Weber for the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) announced that Jheraun Dunlap, Ernest Bagsby, Jermaine Moore and Brandi McCall pleaded guilty today to a $1 million federal tax refund fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Antwon Scott (39, Largo) to 15 years in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. The Court also ordered Scott to forfeit the firearm and ammunition involved in the offense. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 31, 2014.
