News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Kimberley Pinkney, a former inspector with the District of Columbia Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services (DCFEMS), pled guilty today to using her government-issued credit card to purchase over $11,000 in gasoline for her personal vehicle, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Robert C. Erickson, Deputy Inspector General of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: A Brownsville resident was convicted by a jury for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -Vincent Deleon, 32, of Bakersfield, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Lawrence J. O’Neil to five years and nine months in prison for possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Russian man known by the online nickname “Joga," pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to participating in a scheme to acquire more than $400,000 in consumer goods and stored value cards using stolen credit and debit card information.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that the Honorable Laurie Smith Camp sentenced LaTosha Bolton, age 48, of Omaha, Nebraska, to one year, three months imprisonment after a jury had previously found her guilty of theft of government property and mail fraud. Trial was held in October 2014. Ms. Bolton was also ordered to pay the Social Security Administration $124,960.90 and will serve a three-year term of supervised release after she completes her incarceration.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Joshua Moya, 33, of Albuquerque, N.M., entered a guilty plea this morning to defrauding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, more commonly known as the Food Stamp Program. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Moya will be sentenced to six months of imprisonment followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court. Moya also will be required to pay $2444.00 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted robbing the PNC Bank in Bloomfield, New Jersey, in June 2014, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: Criminal justice, cosmology and computer manufacturing may not look to have much in common, but these and many other disparate fields all depend on sensitive measurements of X-rays. Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new method* to reduce uncertainty in X-ray wavelength measurement that could provide improvements awaited for decades.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - The former recreation director for the City of Osawatomie is scheduled to appear in court this month on a federal indictment alleging he embezzled more than $125,000 from the city, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said Monday.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC -Superintendent Pat Kenney is pleased to announce the selection of Jill Jaworski as the new Chief of Visitor and Resource Protection at Cape Lookout National Seashore. Jill will be joining the staff in April 2015 from her current position at the Castillo de San Marcos National Monument and Fort Matanzas National Monument in Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Maxime Maiga, age 37, of Montgomery Village, Maryland, today to two years and a day followed by two years of supervised release for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Judge Grimm also entered an order that Maiga forfeit $11,000 and pay $400,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: Posed online as a teenage boy to blackmail teens.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: A Williamson County man was indicted on March 3, 2015, for methamphetamine-related offenses, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Government Accountability Office reported on poor-performing federal employees. The GAO found that it can take six months to a year to dismiss a poor-performing supervisor - who can then appeal. Although it is easier and takes far less time to dismiss poor-performing supervisors during their one-year probation periods, GAO concluded that agencies are not doing enough to evaluate and weed out poor performers during that period.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: Sailed Off With 9-year-old Son On Sailboat; Apprehended On Small Island In South Seas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Mark Allen Parks, Jr., age 34, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania was sentenced by Chief Judge Christopher C. Connor to 78 months in federal prison on drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Willie R. Wynn, 49, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to possession of heroin with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm while being a previously convicted felon. The drug ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: Dexter L. McClendon, 26, of Madison, IL, was sentenced Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois to 6 months in prison, followed by 12 months of home confinement on one count of Possession of a Weapon by a Prohibited Person, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX- Today, Adrianne Marta Frazer, 62, a chiropractor practicing in Scottsdale, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 30 months in prison and ordered to pay $703,478 in restitution to the federal government. Frazer was previously found guilty by a federal jury of five counts of filing false and fictitious claims for tax refunds.
