News from July 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: WACO, Texas - A federal district judge sentenced four Aryan (AB) members and associates to federal
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JAMES WOOLF, age 41, a resident of Atlanta, Georgia, pled guilty before United States District Judge Martin L. C. Feldman to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fifty grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Criminal Information was filed in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg charging the former president of the United Government Security Officers of America (UGSOA) Local 304 with stealing almost $67,000 in union funds during an eleven month period that he held the office.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held the hearing, "Stopping an Avian Influenza Threat to Animal and Public Health ". Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del), as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - United States Attorney John W. Huber, who became U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah in mid-June after being nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate, has announced his new office leadership team. The changes are effective immediately.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Harrisburg man was indicted by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg on charges of committing 14 bank robberies in 4 central Pennsylvania counties from November 2014 through February 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Liberty, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for receiving child pornography over the Internet. Tracy J. Yost, 44, of Liberty, was sentenced by U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: A resident of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, and the owner of two automotive businesses pleaded guilty today for his involvement in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite Jr. of the Eastern District of Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Fayette County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of distribution of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: The Ring Collected More Than $1 Million By Impersonating FBI and IRS Officials.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Antonio Lamar Cooper, age 28, and Juwan Armarni Watkins, age 22, both of Washington, D.C., yesterday to 241 months in prison, and 210 months in prison, respectively, for interfering with interstate commerce by the armed robbery of employees...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney John J. Field, who handled the matter, stated that Gilbert applied for a passport in 2007 using the name and identification of another individual, Lena B.W. Years later, in May 2014, Lena B.W. applied for a passport for herself. Lena B.W.’s application triggered a review of the 2007 application that defendant had submitted, and resulted in defendant’s fraud being discovered.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: Good morning. I want to welcome and thank our witnesses for being with us today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Silas Lee Sneed, age 25, of Chicago, Illinois, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg. The indictment charges Sneed with three counts of robbery and one count of use of a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: Nathan Paulsen, 28, from Ida Grove, Iowa, has been charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. The charges are contained in an Indictment filed on June 17, 2015, in United States District Court in Sioux City.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: Scam synergy: One ruse to arrange fake timeshare sales, another to “help" timeshare-fraud victims get their money back.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Tyler Brookin-Jones, 24, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg. The indictment charges Brookin-Jones with distribution of a controlled substance and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA), offered an amendment to the Every Child Achieves Act, the bipartisan bill she worked on with Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) to fix the broken No Child Left Behind law, to help...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced that Todd Burke, 52, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was sentenced today to 28 months in prison by the United States District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced today that, STEPHEN A. LAROQUE, 51, of Kinston, North Carolina, was sentenced to 24 months imprisonment followed by 2 years of supervised release. The sentence relates to his theft and embezzlement of hundreds of thousands of dollars from...
