News from May 2015
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, and Phillip Coyne, Special Agent in Charge for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, today...
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2015
News Release: A Uniontown man was sentenced to nearly three years in prison for his role in a conspiracy to hire undocumented workers at a chain of restaurants in Stark and Summit counties and pay them less than minimum wage and sometimes only in tips, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The remaining three of the 27 defendants charged in connection with an investigation into drug trafficking and illegal firearm possession in Catawba County were sentenced today, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Daniel James Owen, 28, of Fresno, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii to 10 years in prison for possessing child pornography, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that it filed charges today against Amy C. Fletcher, of Derby Line, Vermont, alleging fraud and a false tax filing. According to the charge, while working for Derby Line Ambulance during 2009-2012, Fletcher diverted money from the company to pay personal expenses, and also filed a false personal tax return in 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the guilty plea of MICHAEL RONALD GARANT, 42, for acting as a straw purchaser of three firearms for Ray Kmetz. GARANT pleaded guilty to making a false statement during the purchase of a firearm. GARANT pleaded guilty today before Judge Joan N. Ericksen in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Terrell Montaie, 31, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release, United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced. United States District Judge Thomas E. Johnston imposed the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Raul Caraveo, age 43, Pamila Lucero, age 40, Sabrina Caraveo, age 31, Eugene Chavez, age 43, Carolina Aragon, age 58, and Christina Portillos, age 35, all from Colorado, were charged for conspiracy to file false IRS refunds, United States Attorney John Walsh and IRS Criminal Investigation Acting...
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Sherise Lanelle Woolridge, 33, of Atwater, pleaded guilty today to mail fraud and aggravated identity theft for a scheme to obtain student aid grant funds and loans, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2015
News Release: DENVER -- Keith A. Schwartz, age 47, of Silverthorne, Colorado, was sentenced last week by Senior U.S. District Court Judge John L. Kane to serve 180 months (15 years) in federal prison for conspiracy, distribution of a controlled substance and money laundering, United States Attorney John Walsh announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury today indicted Michael Andrew Davila, age 26, of Berwyn Heights, Maryland, Elsie Liseth Pazmino, age 28, also of Berwyn Heights, and John David Hamlett, age 32, of Laurel, Maryland, for conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of a minor, sex trafficking of a minor, and transportation of a minor for prostitution.
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andrew Slavitt pressing the agency to further clarify guidance for how federal funds...
By Interior Newswire | May 4, 2015
News Release: Teachers as well as those who simply love history are invited to attend the 18th annual Eisenhower Academy held at historic Gettysburg College July 26 -31. The Academy offers a unique opportunity to explore and assess 1950s Cold War America and the Eisenhower presidency. The week long institute focuses on the policies, events, crises, and life style of America in the 1950s.
By DOL Newswire | May 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has entered into an alliance with the National Center for Transgender Equality to provide NCTE affiliates and others with information and resources to help foster safer and more healthful American workplaces.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that David Varner, 56, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to maintaining a drug involved premises before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $500,000 fine.
By DOL Newswire | May 4, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, New York - An electric technician at the Republic Steel Corp. steel manufacturing plant in Blasdell was removing wiring from a fan motor in an overhead crane on Oct. 16, 2014, when an ungrounded electrical conductor touched a grounded surface causing an arc flash. The electric technician sustained third degree burns on her hand and first degree burns on her face.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2015
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Cedric Malachi Jones, 33, of South Ozone Park, New York, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for cocaine trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The remaining three of the 27 defendants charged in connection with an investigation into drug trafficking and illegal firearm possession in Catawba County were sentenced today, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Luis Oppenheimer, 27, of Springfield, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute heroin, and possession with intent to distribute and distribution of heroin. U.S. District Judge Mark G. Mastroianni scheduled sentencing for Aug. 20, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2015
News Release: Plea Agreement Requires Sentence within the Range of Ten to Fifteen Years.
