News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew sentenced a Miami couple today for their roles in operating a sham clinic. Gladys Fuertes (41) was sentenced to 19 years and 6 months in federal prison for engaging in a conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, healthcare fraud, aggravated identity theft...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: Hackers Targeted International Financial System. Earlier today at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Qendrim Dobruna, a member of an international cybercrime syndicate, was sentenced to 50 months’ imprisonment and restitution in the amount of $14 million for his role in hacking into the computer systems...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Warren, New Jersey man was charged in a Criminal Information with committing 14 bank robberies and two robberies of businesses over a period of a year in five states. The charges were filed in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Midwest Manufacturing and Distributing Inc., doing business as Midwest Metal Forming
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., June 29, 2015 - Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement on the Supreme Court ruling on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Mercury and Air Toxics Standard.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: The United States Department of Agriculture and the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply of Brazil today issued the following joint statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, man was arrested at his home this morning for allegedly conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman of the District of New Jersey, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, and Special Agent in Charge Richard M. Frankel of the FBI’s Newark Division announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Michael Thompson, 27, of Dexter, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A Woodcock, Jr., to 82 months in prison and three years of supervised release for pharmacy robbery. He was also ordered to pay $5,178.58 in restitution. He pleaded guilty to the charge on December 9, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: Due to special resource management concerns, Fivemile Wash is closed to hiking and canyoneering from the head of the wash to two miles downstream in the drainage. This closure will remain in effect until Aug. 31, 2015. This closure is in accordance with 36 CFR 1.5 (a)(1).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- Federal authorities today arrested a South Carolina attorney on fraud and money laundering charges as part of a scheme that involved submitting false invoices for furnishings and equipment for a University of Alabama sorority house and receiving payment without providing the furnishings...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A former director of the Montgomery County Conservation District appeared in federal court here Monday on bank fraud and wire fraud charges, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita woman was sentenced Monday to five years on federal probation for her role in a scheme to steal mail from postal boxes and cash counterfeit checks, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. She and the other defendants also were ordered to pay more than $27,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Clifton Jackson, 46, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted following a jury trial of 58 felony counts including conspiracy to unlawfully use Social Security numbers, conspiracy for the filing of false tax returns, filing false tax returns...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Philadelphia man today admitted trying to deliver 1.7 kilograms of pure methamphetamine in Elizabeth, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Diana Yates of Sherwood, Oregon and Dan Heine, of Naples, Florida, with one count of conspiring to defraud The Bank of Oswego. The grand jury also charged Heine and Yates with 26 counts of false entries in bank records. Both were arrested...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Tracy Anderson, 43, of Tonawanda, NY, who was convicted of unlawfully receiving supplemental security income, was sentenced to three years probation by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The defendant was also ordered to pay $11,726 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - United States District Judge William B. Shubb sentenced Ricky Lamont Flemings, 31, of Antelope, to two years in prison for two counts of mail fraud, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Two defendants pleaded guilty on June 26, 2015, in U.S. District Court before Senior Judge Charles R. Simpson III, to a single charge of bank robbery by force or violence announced Acting United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: In El Paso this morning, 30-year-old Timothy Keith McCullouch, Jr., a former El Paso County Juvenile Probation Officer, who is also a Folk Nation/Gangster Disciples member, was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for federal sex trafficking violations announced Acting United States Attorney Richard...
