News from May 2015
By US DOT Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) issued the following statement in response to the Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General’s announcement that it is moving forward with an audit of PHMSA’s pipeline and hazardous materials safety program...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Ventress, Alabama, man was sentenced today to 210 months in prison for conspiring to defraud financial institutions and launder stolen funds as part of a $15 million mortgage fraud scam that used phony documents and “straw buyers" to make illegal profits on overbuilt condos, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today, the U.S. Attorney’s Office reached a non-prosecution agreement with HSV Entertainment LLC. The agreement provides that the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina will close its criminal investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a St. Louis, Mo., man and a Berkeley, Mo., woman have been convicted by a federal trial jury of their roles in a drug-trafficking conspiracy after the man suffered a heroin overdose in a Columbia, Mo., hotel room.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Wilfred T. Azar, III, age 53, formerly of Queenstown, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to securities fraud and filing a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced David Wendel Thompson (49, Seffner) to 15 years in federal prison for online enticement of a minor. The Court also sentenced him to 10 years of supervision following his release following his release from prison. Thompson pleaded guilty on Oct. 20, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: BART GUTEKUNST, 63, of Weston, and a former managing partner and principal of New Stream Capital, LLC, a Ridgefield-based hedge fund, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for engaging in a scheme to deceive investors in order to obtain and maintain investments.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Marcia Dawn Lowery, 41, of Parker, Florida, was sentenced to four and a half months in federal prison by United States District Judge Richard Smoak for impersonating a federal law enforcement officer. The sentence was announced by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Niesha Nicole Jackson, 35, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Kimberly Mueller to 15 years and seven months in prison for bank fraud and failure to appear for sentencing, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Jackson had failed to appear for sentencing on the bank fraud conviction in 2011 and had been living as a fugitive until April 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that James Humphrey, Jr., 41, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute over 500 grams of cocaine before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years, a maximum of 40 years and a $5,000,000 fine.
By US DOT Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: SEATTLE - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $150,000 civil penalty against Ameriflight LLC of Burbank, Calif., for allegedly operating a Beech BE-99 when it was not in compliance with Federal Aviation Regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Topeka, Kansas man who was pulled over by Nevada Highway Patrol Officers in 2013, and found to be in possession of 24 pounds of methamphetamine and 74 pounds of marijuana, was sentenced today to 365 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden, for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Frank A. Bilan, 66, of Lodi, was arrested today on a three-count indictment charging him with one count of corrupt endeavor to obstruct and impede the administration of the internal revenue laws and two counts of failing to file tax returns, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: A 32-count federal indictment was filed charging three Cleveland women for their roles in a $165,000 conspiracy to pass fraudulent checks and then withdrew the money, sometimes at a Cleveland casino, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - TODD SCOTT, St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Matthew Edward Baumrucker, age 31, of Spokane, Washington was sentenced today after having previously pled guilty on January 8, 2015 to being a Previously Convicted Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
By Commerce Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - A group of House and Senate lawmakers today asked the Interior Department to limit the unnecessary releases of natural gas from oil and gas wells on public lands in light of a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report finding that federal officials have not improved natural gas capture standards despite two previous reports urging reforms.
By Commerce Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: What is the optimal energy efficiency design for a new single-family house? Two economists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) took a crack at answering this important question, and their multifaceted answer should help to inform home-buying decisions to get the biggest combined economic, energy and environmental "bang for the buck."
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Albert Hewins, 30, an inmate in FCI Elkton, with possessing contraband in prison, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: Jemez Springs, NM- When the Valles Caldera National Preserve opens the summer season May 15, visitors will be greeted with expanded public access plus a more streamlined and cost-effective fee system. The new format, approved by the Valles Caldera Trust Board of Trustees last December, features an entrance...
