News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A member of a large-scale drug trafficking organization today admitted conspiring to distribute heroin in Ocean and Monmouth counties and elsewhere in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Luis Alcalar Vasquez, a/k/a Noberto DeRivas, a/k/a Abraham Rivas-Rios, 43, of Texas and Mexico, who was convicted of possession of 15 or more unauthorized access devices, was sentenced to 72 months in prison and ordered to pay $77,577.90 in restitution by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today made the following statement regarding President Barack Obama’s announcement on plans for the U.S. security presence in Afghanistan.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that James Darnell Walker, 31, of Charleston, pleaded guilty to distribution of heroin. Walker admitted that he sold heroin to a confidential informant working with law enforcement in Charleston on Sept. 23, Sept. 30, and Oct. 11, 2014. On Sept. 1, 2014, Walker was also found to have 600 individual packages of heroin in his possession that he intended to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JAMES ROSEMOND, a/k/a “Jimmy the Henchman," was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to life plus twenty years in prison for offenses arising from his role in ordering a crew of men to murder Lowell...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the owner of a Grandview, Mo., lawn care company pleaded guilty in federal court today to a $3 million extortion and money laundering scheme that began when a cocaine deal went awry.
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and a former Chairman of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, today was joined by Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA), Western Hemisphere Subcommittee Chairman Jeff Duncan (R-SC),...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (OGR) will hold a hearing tomorrow that will examine recent and longstanding problems at the U.S. Secret Service (USSS), including a recent March 4th incident at the White House.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Amaury Jimenez Brito (37, Fort Myers) to 21 months in federal prison for conspiracy to defraud the United States with false claims and theft of government property. The Court also ordered Brito to pay $7,924 in restitution to the IRS. He pleaded guilty to the charges on November 6, 2014.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following response to the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General’s Memorandum for Secretary Johnson regarding an Investigation into Employee Complaints about Management of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ EB-5 program.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) delivered remarks at a committee hearing on Continuing America’s Leadership: Advancing Research and Development for Patients. In her remarks, Murray highlighted how advances in...
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Dupree, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Aiding and Abetting was sentenced on March 23, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Huntley, Ill., concrete contractor was charged today by a federal grand jury in a twenty-seven count indictment. THOMAS MANNING, 58, president of T. Manning Concrete, Inc., located in Huntley, was charged with five counts of mail fraud, five counts of causing false statements to be made...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Miguel Calixto, 28, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, was sentenced to 10 years in prison by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Stroudsburg woman pleaded guilty today in Scranton before Senior United States District Judge Edwin M. Kosik, to a charge involving the use of her residence for methamphetamine trafficking.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: LONDON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the City of London Police signed an official memorandum of understanding Tuesday to further strengthen collaboration on cases involving intellectual property crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: Charleston, W. Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that William Leon Sales, 37, of Dunbar, West Virginia was sentenced by United States District Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr., to 46 months in prison for a federal drug offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Victor Corral, 25, of El Paso, Texas, was sentenced this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 27 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for transporting illegal aliens into Doña Ana County, N.M.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Miguel Angel Tinajero-Martinez, 25, a Mexican national illegally in the United States, was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 51 months in federal prison for his methamphetamine and cocaine trafficking convictions. He will be deported after he completes his prison sentence.
