News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that the owner of a Kansas City, Mo., scrap metal business has been sentenced in federal court for tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Jeffrey Poole, age 40, of Parkton, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to bank fraud and aggravated identity theft arising from a seven year scheme to access a client’s bank account.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 36 months imprisonment, followed by eight years supervised release, on his conviction of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia has initiated a review of local courthouses in the Northern District of Georgia to determine if they are in compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 (the “ADA"). This initiative is being conducted in accordance with the federal government’s congressionally-mandated responsibility to review compliance with the ADA.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: SEATTLE - North America's second-largest freight railroad, Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC, must reinstate a train conductor and pay the man $536,063 in back pay, damages and attorney's fees after a federal investigation found the rail operator retaliated against its employee after reporting a knee injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that LUIS FERNANDO MARTINEZ, 40, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today delivered the following remarks on the House floor in opposition to H.R. 160, the repeal of the Medical Device Tax established under the Affordable Care Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that two York men were sentenced yesterday to federal prison for their involvement in the importation and distribution of cocaine and heroin into York County.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: Employer Name and Location: Frame carpentry contractor Express Construction 3 Corp. is located at 64 Wright Street, 2nd Floor, in Newark, New Jersey. The investigation was conducted at The Mews at Liberty Village, a residential construction project in Coopersburg, Pennsylvania.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $66,000 civil penalty against Centurion Air Cargo, Inc., of Miami, Fla., for allegedly operating an aircraft that was not in compliance with Federal Aviation Regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney George C. Burgasser, who is handling the case, stated that as a member of the Schuele Boys Gang, the defendant purchased cocaine from co-defendant Michael Robertson. Johnson then repackaged the cocaine into smaller amounts for re-sale in the Buffalo area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HUMBERTO SOTO, 27, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in Bridgeport to 84 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for planning to conduct an armed robbery of narcotics stash house.
By State Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today in an appearance on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom," U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Secretary of State John Kerry is letting previous U.S. demands in Iran nuclear negotiations “erode" as a June 30 deadline nears for concluding a final agreement with Iran.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for his role in 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 | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Norbulk Shipping UK LTD, a company based in Glasgow, United Kingdom, and operator of the vessel M/V Murcia Carrier, pleaded guilty today to failing to maintain an accurate oil record book and providing false statements to the U.S. Coast Guard concerning the vessel’s garbage record book, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and the U.S. Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York, Gracia L. Mayard, a Queens doctor, was sentenced to 54 months in prison and $20,000 forfeiture by United States District Judge Joseph F. Bianco. Mayard pleaded guilty to conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone, a highly addictive prescription pain killer, on Sept. 16, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: A Palm Beach County businessman pled guilty for participating in a four million dollar commodities fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Tara Noelle Rivera, 30, of Nampa, Idaho, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for distribution of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Rivera to serve three years of supervised release following her release from prison. Rivera pleaded guilty on March 31, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), and William J. Bratton, the Commissioner of the New York City Police (NYPD), today announced the unsealing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Potosi, Mo., man and a Neosho, Mo., man have been indicted by a federal grand jury in separate and unrelated cases related to child pornography and exploitation.
