News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Nevada, Mo., couple was sentenced in federal court today for Social Security fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: Fresno, California -Miguel Marquez, 30, of Bakersfield, was sentenced today to 14 years and eight months in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill also ordered Marquez to forfeit over $30,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting a Federal Officer was sentenced on March 2, 2015, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney Kenyen Brown announces that Vincent Cole, a 26 year old, Mobile, Alabama resident, was sentenced today to 121 months incarceration for pointing a firearm in the face of a Mobile citizen and forcing that citizen to give Mr. Cole his 1993 customized Chevrolet Suburban and other items.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Recovery Home Care Inc., Recovery Home Care Services Inc. (collectively Recovery Home Care) and National Home Care Holdings LLC have agreed to pay $1.1 million to resolve allegations that the Recovery Home Care entities violated the False Claims Act by improperly paying doctors for referrals...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: Urbana, Ill. B Two men with prior felony convictions that designated them as career offenders, cousins Jermaine R. Speed and Rico J. Speed were sentenced today to 18 years in federal prison, and a third man, Charles D. Nance, was sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison, for illegal possession of firearms ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger announced the sentencing of ROBERT DAVID BOEDIGHEIMER, 52, to five years in prison. BOEDIGHEIMER was convicted by a jury on June 17, 2014, after a 12-day trial, of using his law firm to launder drug money, lying to investigators, and encouraging his brother-in-law to also lie to federal investigators. The defendant was sentenced on March 9, 2015, before Judge Ann D. Montgomery in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: The Obed Wild and Scenic River continues to host a preschool story time event every Friday morning, beginning at 10:30 a.m. (ET). Story time should last for about 30 minutes. The event takes place at the Obed visitor center, located at 208 North Maiden Street in downtown Wartburg. All preschool children...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Miguel Marquez, 30, of Bakersfield, was sentenced today to 14 years and eight months in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill also ordered Marquez to forfeit over $30,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that on Friday, March 6, 2015, PABLO E. PAZ, 45, of New Orleans, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit theft of government funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Four individuals, including a Pennsylvania man, were convicted of drug trafficking near protected locations in Clarksburg, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Damion Richards, 34, and Delroy Williams, 38, both of Brooklyn, New York, were arraigned today on charges of money laundering and conspiring to distribute oxycodone. A federal grand jury sitting in Burlington handed down the three-count indictment.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman, and Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, called attention to a new Social Security Administration (SSA) Office of the Inspector General Report (OIG) report that 6.5 million people who have active Social Security numbers, according to SSA’s own records, exceed 112 years of age and are likely deceased.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that 3 New York City men pleaded guilty today in United States District Court in Harrisburg, before Senior U.S. District Court Judge William J. Caldwell to charges they possessed 62 counterfeit credit cards.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: The Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy today announced the appointment of David Mohler as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Clean Coal and Carbon Management.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for two counts of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of Children.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Mucahid Calisir, age 29, a Turkish citizen who had been residing in Millsboro, Delaware; and Darya Tarasova, age 26, a Russian citizen who had been residing in Cambridge, Maryland, pleaded guilty to marriage fraud and passport fraud; and co-defendant Evgeniya Yarina, age 27, a Russian...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - After a five-day jury trial, a federal jury on March 6, 2015 convicted St. Croix resident Ketisha Isles, 23,of Conspiracy to Interfere with Commerce by Robbery and Interference with Commerce by Robbery, announced United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent-in-Charge Carlos Cases, and Virgin Islands Police Commissioner Delroy Richards.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Martin Rojas-Cuamba (Rojas), 46, of Escondido, was sentenced today to 364 days in custody for smuggling cash proceeds from the cultivation of marijuana in Tulare, Kern, and San Diego Counties, U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill also ordered the forfeiture of $53,750 in drug proceeds that was seized from Rojas’ residence.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), sent letters to Secretaries Anthony Foxx and John Kerry, urging them to protect U.S. jobs and immediately act to restore a fair, competitive balance between U.S. air carriers and...
