News from July 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Andre Eugene Favreau (30, Temple Terrace) with receipt of child pornography. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge John E. Steele has sentenced Kevin Charles Kaszynski to 5 years and 10 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography. He pleaded guilty on Jan. 27, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. - A supervisory postal inspector working at the San Jose Processing and Distribution Center pleaded guilty today to possession of stolen U.S. mail and possession with intent to distribute marijuana, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: WALNUT GROVE, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation will open the Delta Cross Channel Gates on Friday, July 24, at about 12 p.m. The gates will remain open until further notice. Please be advised that the decision to open or close the gates can be made on short notice based on requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that EDWIN MEJIA was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 44 months in prison for his participation in a scheme to cash more than $400,000 in fraudulently obtained federal tax refund checks issued in other...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Nikki Autry, a former Habersham County deputy sheriff and special agent of the Mountain Judicial Circuit Criminal Investigation and Suppression Team (“NCIS"), has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of providing false information in a search warrant affidavit and providing the same false information to obtain an arrest warrant. Providing false evidence to a judge to obtain a warrant is a federal civil rights violation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: Case Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy C. Lynch, who handled the case, stated on March 19, 2012, Woods was riding in a vehicle that Buffalo Police attempted to pull over. Rather than comply with the police request, the vehicle led the officers were on a pursuit. The defendant eventually got out of the vehicle...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: Today, a federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment against 46-year-old San Antonio businessman Elpidio Gongora (aka “Pete Gongora") and three other individuals for their roles in a scheme to defraud personal injury clients. Gongora also faces charges relating to evading payment of more than...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - An indictment was unsealed today charging a Louisiana woman with offenses related to her sex trafficking of a minor, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney J. Walter Green of the Middle District of Louisiana and Special Agent in Charge Michael J. Anderson of the FBI New Orleans Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Brazilian national charged with defrauding investors in Massachusetts and elsewhere of more than $12 million was arrested yesterday in Boca Raton, Florida, after evading arrest for more than two weeks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Middlesex County doctor with practices in Jersey City, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 21 months in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for test referrals as part of a long-running and elaborate scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: The complaint states that during an interview with law enforcement, Sasiadek admitted to occasionally viewing and saving child pornography on his desk-top computer. The defendant also stated that officers might find some old child pornography on the computer and that he deleted a lot of child pornography from the computer many years ago.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that OSCAR EDUARDO PENA-TABORA, age 39, a citizen of Honduras, pled guilty today to a one-count Bill of Information for illegal reentry of removed alien.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, the House of Representatives passed by a vote of 403-0 a bipartisan bill introduced by Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, to strengthen equal employment protections for federal workers. The bill, the Federal Employee...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: MEXICO CITY - Law enforcement officials from the United States and Mexico began a three-day training exercise July 20 focused on the global threat of intellectual property rights violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Carl Taylor, 64, and Patsy Taylor, 52, of Charleston were each sentenced yesterday to federal prison for illegal firearm possession. On January 4, 2013, Carl Taylor received a package of 100 oxycodone pills. Just weeks earlier Carl...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade has scheduled a markup on Thursday, July 23, 2015, at 1:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider the following three bills...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today discussed ways to promote broadband infrastructure investment in an environment with ever-growing demand for fixed and mobile broadband access.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote this afternoon on Rep. David McKinley’s (R-WV) H.R. 1734, the Improving Coal Combustion Residuals Regulation Act of 2015. The bipartisan legislation is the culmination of a multi-year, multi-Congress effort to improve options for...
