News from May 2015
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the conviction of KEVIN LOWE, the owner of “Astramed," a purported medical clinic with multiple locations in the Bronx, New York, and from which more than five million tablets of the prescription painkiller oxycodone were unlawfully distributed over a three-year period. LOWE was convicted yesterday following a two-week jury trial presided over by U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2015
News Release: Zion National Park is now accepting applications for the 2016 Artist-in-Residence program.
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today highlighted a new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) which found that an estimated $5.6 billion in potentially erroneous education credits were received by more than an estimated 3.6 million taxpayers on their 2012 tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A North Attleboro woman pleaded guilty today to stealing $32,439 in government benefits from a disabled man whose financial affairs she was managing.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2015
News Release: MILWAUKEE ? James C. Modzelewski, Special Agent in Charge of the St. Paul Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Edward A. Flynn, chief of the Milwaukee Police Department (MPD) and David Ford, president and general manager of Clear Channel Outdoor today announced a Tip Line and Billboard Campaign to encourage the citizens of Milwaukee to report firearm-related crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2015
News Release: Barela Prosecuted Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - On May 4, 2015, the U.S. Senate confirmed Willie E. May as the second Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and the 15th director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). May has been serving as acting director since June 2014. He has worked...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2015
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that MICHEL JUNIOR CASTRO, age 36, of Tamuning, was sentenced on April 29, 2015, before Senior Judge Alex R. Munson, in the District Court of Guam, to 174 months imprisonment and to three years supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that EDWARD MEMOLI, 66, of Unadilla, N.Y., was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 35 months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release, for his role in an extortion scheme. Judge Bryant also ordered MEMOLI to pay $26,000 in restitution to the victim of his scheme.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2015
News Release: On Saturday and Sunday, May 23rd and 24th, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park will present a special program, To Defend and Protect: Arming the American Soldier. This program will highlight Harpers Ferry's gun-making industry and the field use of those weapons. Park rangers and volunteers dressed in civilian and military costumes will staff five permanent and temporary exhibit areas. A special tour and historic weapons firing demonstration will be held each day.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - ALFRED BROWN admitted to filing a false 2009 tax return, which failed to disclose income he took from a Church and daycare center. In all, Brown admitted to avoiding more than $80,000 in income taxes for 2008, 2009 and 2010.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2015
News Release: James L. Santelle, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on May 5, 2015, a federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment against Justin K. Nalls (age: 27) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, charging him with robbery, brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Joplin, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today following a pursuit in which he rammed into a police vehicle.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2015
News Release: Washington -The National Park Service will begin repairs this week to the Kutz Bridge, which carries the eastbound leg of Independence Avenue SW over the Tidal Basin. The project is expected to last until early fall and will include repair to and repaving of the bridge surface;widening of the bridge's south sidewalk to meet Americans with Disabilities Act requirements;increasing safety for pedestrians and bicyclist using the bridge;and general maintenance.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Devon J. Ball, 29, of Columbus, Ohio, was convicted in federal court today of heroin and crack cocaine trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2015
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Troy Lawrence, 45, of Charleston, West Virginia, was sentenced to two years in federal prison for aggravated identity theft. In July of 2014, Lawrence pleaded guilty to aggravated identify theft admitting that he used a dead...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Rai Johnson, 35, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition, before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ELEHECER BALAGUER pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to aiming the beam of a laser pointer at commercial airliners in the vicinity of LaGuardia Airport on March 9, 2015. BALAGUER was arrested on March 16, 2015, and pled guilty today before United States District Judge Jed S. Rakoff to aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - An attorney specializing in real estate closings and a co-conspirator were charged today with depositing more than $1 million in fraudulently obtained IRS refund checks into several different bank accounts, including the attorney’s trust accounts, in an effort to launder the proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging Deonte Spicer, 28, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary Hazelton, with assaulting a fellow prisoner, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
