News from June 2015
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Twenty-seven criminal foreign fugitives with active Interpol alerts were arrested across the United States this week by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Nicholas Rivera, age 41, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty today to felony drug trafficking before United States District Court Chief Judge Christopher C. Conner in Harrisburg. Rivera pled guilty to a superseding information that charged him with distribution and possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Wildwood, New Jersey, man today admitted defrauding a financial institution as part of a mortgage fraud scam that used phony documents and “straw buyers" to make illegal profits on over-developed condominiums in the Wildwood area, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following reaction to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit exigent ruling...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: In a separate prosecution, Texas man is sentenced to more than three years for tax fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced that Carlos Peres-Ovando, of Honduras, pled guilty today in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to illegally reentering the United States after having been previously deported. Peres-Ovando was sentenced to time served and will once again face deportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former bank director was sentenced in federal court to 144 months of imprisonment to be followed by five years of supervised release, and $9,934,159.41 in restitution, on his conviction on nine counts of misapplication and theft of funds by a bank director, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Following an investigation of firearms trafficking in Baltimore City, a federal grand jury has indicted five defendants in three separate cases, on firearms related charges including: unlawful possession of an unregistered firearm; possession of a firearm and/or ammunition by an...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today issued the following statement regarding yesterday’s announcement that the integrity of four million government employee records had been compromised by a recent data breach.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: Agents recovered high-purity methamphetamine, cocaine and crack cocaine.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: “The announcement that up to four million federal workers may have had their personal information stolen in this cyber breach represents the latest failure to protect American data against cyber threats.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - After four days of trial, Jeffrey Brian Cohen, age 39, of Reisterstown, Maryland, pleaded guilty late today, to wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, making false statements to an insurance regulator, and obstruction of justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Andre J. Anderson, 34, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison for cocaine trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) today issued the following statement applauding the Republican Study Committee’s commitment to increased research funding at the National Institutes of Health. The RSC, led...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Misty Maciejewski, 35, of Northfield, has pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to health care fraud, that involved the theft of more than $29,000 from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs Health Administration, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, chaired by U.S. Rep. Bob Gibbs (R-OH), will hold a hearing next week on implementation of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 (WRRDA), legislation that made reforms to accelerate the project delivery process, promote fiscal responsibility, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: A Jefferson County man was convicted on June 2, 2015, on methamphetamine related charges following a two day jury trial, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: MISSOULA - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Montana announces that Mark Irvin Roberts, 50, of Newport, Washington, was sentenced on June 4, 2015, to over six years in prison and to forfeit more than $278,000 in connection with his federal conviction for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Multiple individuals have been arrested pursuant to a federal indictment stemming from a methamphetamine manufacturing operation based in Pleasants County, West Virginia, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Aaron J. Mango and Scott S. Allen, Jr., who are handling the case, stated that on Sept. 20, 2007, the defendant knowingly possessed over 600 images of child pornography which were stored on his personal computer. Paden obtained these images over the internet. Some of the images depicted prepubescent minors or minors less than 12 years of age.
