News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that John Casey, 46, formerly of Greece, NY, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography before U.S. District Court Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Demario Robbins, 24, of North Tonawanda, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2015
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i -Help protect the native Hawaiian rainforest at the summit of Kīlauea by volunteering for "Stewardship at the Summit" programs in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, now through June 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2015
News Release: A Broward resident who operated various tax preparation businesses was sentenced to 70 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $279,903.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2015
News Release: The Third Annual Frederick County Outdoor School Reunion will be held at Camp Greentop in Catoctin Mountain Park on Saturday, April 11 from 9 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. The Reunion celebrates memories of the Frederick County Outdoor School Program that operated at Camp Greentop from 1957 until 1996. The residential...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2015
News Release: A California man, previously convicted by a jury in the Southern District of Illinois of Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with Intent to DistributeMethamphetamine, Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine, and Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime, was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont has stated that Roy “Opie" McAllister II, 39, of Montgomery, Vermont has been sentenced to prison for his role in a cross-border marijuana trafficking conspiracy. In September 2014, McAllister was convicted of two counts of tax filing ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that John Ways, Jr., age 48, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced to 15 years in prison by Senior United States District Court Judge Joseph F. Bataillon. In August of 2014 Ways was found guilty by a jury of conspiracy to sell drug paraphernalia, conspiracy...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 27, 2015
News Release: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Since 2013, 294 workers have been killed by falls, the leading cause of death in the construction trade. These incidents can often be prevented when employers use proper safety protections. Unfortunately for its employees, Great White Construction Inc. has repeatedly put the safety of its workers at risk, the U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors found.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2015
News Release: A former firefighter for the Church Road Fire Protection District in Centreville, Illinois, Derrick N. Henry, 45, of Alorton, Illinois, was sentenced on March 26, 2015, in United States District Court in East St. Louis to 37 months in federal prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, a...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2015
News Release: The following programs are being offered at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore this April. Please see the individual program descriptions listed below. For more information on any of the programs at the national lakeshore, contact Ryan Koepke at 219-395-1882 or check the park’s website at www.nps.gov/indu. All programs are free.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 27, 2015 - House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01) issued the following statement this evening on the Obama Administration’s release of its first Report on the Implementation of the National Ocean Policy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2015
News Release: Former New York City Police Officer Rex Maralit and his brother Wilfredo Maralit, a Customs and Border Protection Officer assigned to Los Angeles International Airport, were sentenced earlier today at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn to three years’ imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2015
News Release: DAYTON - A federal grand jury has charged Timothy Hock, 50, currently of Chicago, Illinois, with embezzlement from a bankruptcy state and tax evasion in an indictment returned in Dayton.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorneys Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Criminal Information was filed today in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg charging Dylan Blum, age 22, of Harrisburg, with the December 9, 2014 robbery of the Mid Penn Bank, North Front Street, Harrisburg.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Acting Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta of the Civil Rights Division, U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton today announced the indictment of a Madison police officer for using unreasonable force against a man he was attempting to question in February.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Gary Clark Steciuk, age 39, of Buffalo Grove, Illinois and Heber Springs, Arkansas, today to 105 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for mail fraud in connection with a six year scheme to defraud his clients of their retirement funds. Judge Hollander also entered an order that Steciuk pay restitution of $2,386,025.07, the amount stolen from at least 18 victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2015
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Matthew D. Rust, 33, Madison, Wis., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Madison to possessing a firearm in the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, a federal facility.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 27, 2015
News Release: Each workday, I get up at 4 a.m. to make the drive from Gettysburg, Pa., to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md., or to an event or meeting in the D.C. area. I have been making the commute for more than 20 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Joseph Pasquale (38, Worcester, MA) with one count of mortgage fraud conspiracy involving bank fraud and two counts of bank fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of 30 years’ imprisonment for each count. The indictment also notifies Pasquale that the United States is seeking a money judgment for the proceeds of the mortgage fraud conspiracy.
