News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A North Bergen, New Jersey, man today admitted paying cash bribes to a West New York, New Jersey, fire official to eliminate millions of dollars in outstanding fines and penalties on buildings with fire code violations, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Fritzroy Brown, 38, of Philadelphia, PA, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit health care fraud, false statements in a health care matter, and theft of government property. He faces a maximum possible statutory sentence of 25 years in prison, three years of supervised release, a $750,000 fine, and a $300 special assessment. U.S. District Court Judge William H. Yohn, Jr. scheduled a sentencing hearing for Sept. 10, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Matthew Ireland, 36, of Manchester, New Hampshire, appeared in United States District Court today and entered a guilty plea to one count of bank robbery announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Monroe woman was sentenced Monday to 12 months in prison for illegally taking more than $135,000 in Social Security payments that were for her mother who had died.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A heroin supplier to the Grape Street Crips street gang today admitted conspiring to distribute hundreds of grams of heroin in and around Newark, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: A Westlake police officer was indicted in federal court for excessive use of force on an arrested suspect and subsequently attempting to cover up the incident, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Two principals of a Pennsylvania construction company working on a project at the Ft. Dix military base in Burlington County, New Jersey, were sentenced today for separate charges concerning employee extortion, the hired assault of a site manager and bribes to secure federally subsidized construction projects, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Mark Edward Rowley, 62, of Dauphin Island, Alabama was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge William H. Steele to 33 months imprisonment for wire fraud. The judge ordered that Rowley make restitution in the amount of $252,148.74 to victims of his crime and that he pay a $100 mandatory special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Luis Alexander Garcia, 18, of Santa Ana, Calif., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a methamphetamine trafficking charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: Posing as a Teen, 35-year-old Man Sought Sexually Explicit Photos.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Wen Ping Chen, 30, of Rio Rancho, N.M., and his brother Wen Qiu Chen, 31, of Santa Fe, N.M., were each sentenced this afternoon to two years of probation for harboring illegal aliens and violating the federal minimum and overtime wage laws. Ping Chen and Qui Chen were also ordered to forfeit...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has posted the second video designed to further enhance airport safety. Entitled “The 2015 Wildlife Hazard Management and Strike Reporting Update," the video outlines the benefits of wildlife hazard strike reporting and how airport operators use the information to reduce wildlife strikes at airports.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Federal charges have been filed against the former CEO and former President of Chase Power Development alleging conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, mail fraud and wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA -- Larry James Carter, 38, of Brunswick, Georgia, was sentenced last week by United States Chief District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood to 235 months in federal prison for his role in a cocaine trafficking organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: ROCKFORD - Two area men were charged by a federal grand jury in separate cases on child pornography charges. ZACHARY RODRIGUEZ, 24, of Loves Park, Ill., was indicted on June 16, 2015, on one count of using a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct in November 2014. Rodriguez appeared in federal court on June 23, 2015, and pled not guilty.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has named experts in business continuity planning and the post-disaster recovery of telecommunication networks to serve as NIST Disaster Resilience Fellows.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Independence, Mo., man and a Kansas City, Mo., man were sentenced in federal court today for their roles in a $1.2 million arson and insurance fraud conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation has selected New Mexico State University to be the lead subject matter expert to perform the first Reclamation dam inspection using an unmanned aircraft system. This aeronautical research project will occur at Elephant Butte Dam in New Mexico. Reclamation is providing New Mexico State $35,000 to assist in the project.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Jersey City, New Jersey, man today admitted conspiring to traffic turtle species designated as threatened under New Jersey state law, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- Federal prosecutors have charged a McCalla woman, already serving time for attempting to defraud the Gulf Coast oil spill claims fund, with food stamp fraud and evading income taxes, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Veronica Hyman-Pillot, and U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of Inspector General, Investigations, Special Agent in Charge Karen Citizen-Wilcox.
