News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Simi Valley man was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to child pornography charges and admitting he used social media to solicit girls in the Philippines and Vietnam to send him sexually explicit images of themselves.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Texas man who was arrested with dozens of counterfeit credit cards pleaded guilty Monday to federal bank fraud and wire fraud charges, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2015
News Release: Waves, NC - Around 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 27, 2015, the National Park Service (NPS) received a report from the Dare County Sheriff’s Office 911 Center that multiple Dare County EMS units from the Tri-Villages were responding to an injured person on the beach near Waves, NC.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 Today’s terrorist attacks in France, Tunisia and Kuwait are a reminder of the evolving global terrorist threats. We stand in support of the people of those countries and mourn the loss of those killed.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 For the Sixth year in a row, the Department of Homeland Security has earned top scores on the Small Business Administration’s Annual Small Business Procurement Scorecard. The DHS Small Business Program continues to be one of the Department’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that Ersparniskasse Schaffhausen AG (EKS) has reached a resolution under the department’s Swiss Bank Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: On Wednesday, a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh returned a multi-count indictment against Yoandy Perez Llanes, a foreign national residing outside of the United States. Llanes was charged in a 21-count indictment with a scheme to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and the U.S. Treasury, using ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch released the following statement today after the Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges: “Today, the Supreme Court of the United States has recognized the equality, dignity and essential humanity of our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters and reaffirmed this country’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: A Jamaican man was sentenced today in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after he pleaded guilty to his role in an international lottery scheme against elderly victims in the United States. Damion Bryan Barrett, 28, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge William J. Zloch of the Southern District of Florida ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: The former Executive Vice President and President of Global Business Operations for Qualcomm Inc., was sentenced today to 18 months in prison and fined $500,000 for his role in a three-year insider trading scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: Calumite Company LLC, a manufacturer of an additive used in the production of glass, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Hammond, Indiana, in connection with its September 2014 plea of guilty to two Clean Air Act false statement violations. The company was sentenced to pay a $325,000 fine, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury in San Francisco returned an indictment against a Northern California real estate investor for his role in bid-rigging and fraud conspiracies at public foreclosure auctions in Northern California, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: Corporation Previously Paid More Than $80 million to Resolve Criminal and Civil Investigations The former president and CEO of OtisMed Corporation was sentenced today to serve two years in prison for intentionally distributing a medical device used in knee replacement surgery after its application for marketing clearance had been rejected by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: District Court Ruled that the Fruits of FISA Surveillance Were Admissible in this Case Agron Hasbajrami, 31, an Albanian citizen and resident of Brooklyn, New York, pleaded guilty today to attempting and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists before U.S. District Judge John Gleeson of the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: A former state representative and Pikeville, Kentucky, coal operator, Wendell Keith Hall, has been convicted by a jury of bribing a federal mine official.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: A federal judge in Boston formally sentenced Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev on June 24, for his role in using weapons of mass destruction at the 2013 Boston Marathon. U.S. District Judge George A. O’Toole of the District of Massachusetts imposed a sentence of death and multiple consecutive life sentences. U.S. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: A Tennessee man pleaded guilty to Hobbs Act robbery and use of a handgun in a crime of violence, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney David Rivera of the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: A Douglas, Massachusetts, dentist was sentenced today to serve 16 months in prison for tax evasion in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division. George Fenzell was indicted in February ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: Kyle Allen Smith, 21, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, was sentenced today to 40 months in federal prison for possession of ricin by the Chief District Judge William C. Griesbach of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin and U.S. Attorney James L. Santelle of the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: Evelyn Langford 49, of Copperas Cove, Texas, was sentenced today to 22 months in prison and ordered to pay $260,000 in restitution for her convictions for wire fraud and bribery, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag of the Northern District of California, Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson of the FBI’s San Francisco Division and Special Agent in Charge Paul Delacourt of the FBI’s Honolulu Division.
