News from July 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Yardley, Pennsylvania, man was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for using his position at a Freehold, New Jersey, office equipment leasing company to defraud clients out of more than $600,000, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: Suit Alleges Defendant Repeatedly Performed Renovation Work in Residential Buildings in Violation of Public Health Regulations Under the Toxic Substances Control Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Chairman Jason Chaffetz along with 20 members of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee joined together in calling upon President Obama to remove Internal Revenue Service(IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen from office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - William John Shoemaker has been ordered to prison following his conviction on one count of willfully failing to truthfully account for and to pay federal tax withholdings to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Lucy Cruz, special agent in charge of IRS - Criminal Investigation (CI). Shoemaker pleaded guilty March 2, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - John Daniel Barnett, 39, and Kaylei Oressa Wilson, 26, both of Petersburg, West Virginia, were convicted today of heroin trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: A Cleveland Heights man was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for conspiring to defraud states out of more than $1.1 million in unemployment insurance benefits, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte sentenced Jasonn A. Williams, age 36, of Jamaica, New York, today to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to pass counterfeit $100 bills and conspiring to commit money laundering. Judge Messitte also entered an order that Williams pay restitution of $18,600 and forfeit $22,462.88.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Zareena Investments Inc. doing business as Super Cleaners
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced the guilty pleas of four (4) defendants in federal court.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, introduced legislation that would provide the private sector and our federal government with critical data to help support our nation’s economic growth. The Quarterly Financial...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.- Tenacious. Diligent. Innovative. These attributes are only a few of the reasons why Eric Graff, Lead Helitack and paramedic at Grand Canyon National Park, received the inaugural Tom Clausing Aviation All Risk Programs Award.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that STANLEY RAY MIXON, age 39, of Haworth, Oklahoma, pled guilty to USE OF TELEPHONE TO MAKE BOMB THREAT, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 844(e), punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment, up to a $250,000.00 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal jury convicted former letter carrier Takisha Cole, age 33, of Washington, D.C. late on Friday, July 24, 2015 of possession with intent to distribute marijuana, use of a communications device to facilitate drug trafficking and bribery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - United States District Judge William B. Shubb sentenced Joe L. Regalado, 41, of Stockton, to one and one half years in prison for trafficking in counterfeit goods, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that BRIAN FANELLI, the former Chief of the Mount Pleasant, New York, Police Department, pled guilty today to one count of possession of child pornography. FANELLI, who was arrested in January 2014, entered his plea before United States District Judge Kenneth M. Karas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that Luke Xavier Lore, 47, formerly of Saint Louis, Missouri, was indicted on July 22, 2015, by a federal grand jury in the United States District Court in East Saint Louis, Illinois. Lore was charged...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to calls by Republicans to remove IRS Commissioner John Koskinen...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - United States District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill sentenced Stephen Stinson, 45, of Fresno, today to 10 years in prison for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Jimmy Gil, aka Joselin Jimelet Gil Sanchez, aka Joselin Gil, aka Gilberto Sanchez, 35, of Shafter, was sentenced today to five years in prison for conspiring with Jose Luis Montoya-Salazar, (Montoya), 42, of Mexico City, and Luis Ricardo Eslava-(Eslava), 42, of Sinaloa, Mexico, to import, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Francesca Daniele, age 48, of LaPlata, Maryland, today on wire fraud charges in connection with the misuse of her government credit card.
