News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Cecile Roux, 38, of Harpswell, Maine, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to embezzling bank funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - The former treasurer of Greater Norris Baptist Church, located in Henderson County, Kentucky, was charged by grand jury indictment this week, with eleven counts of wire fraud announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa together with state law enforcement agency representatives will hold a press conference on November 24th to discuss a new program begun by the Eastern Iowa Heroin Initiative. Deaths from drug overdoses in the United...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: A federal jury today convicted Yujie Ding, 53, and Yuliya Zotova, 41, of Center Valley, Pennsylvania, of six counts of wire fraud for defrauding NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. U.S. District Court Judge Harvey Bartle III scheduled sentencing hearings for March 2, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn.- On Nov. 20, 2015, Daniel Sands was arrested and charged in a criminal complaint with engaging in conduct with the intent to retaliate against a witness who testified against his father in an official court proceeding in U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: Also Alleged to Have Filed False Labor Reports.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 42-year-old man who resided in Dallas has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of sexual exploitation of a child, otherwise known as production of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Daniel Fredrick Heidemann admitted to posing as a young male in order to elicit sexually explicit photos from a juvenile female.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - Kevin Alan Lewis, a civilian formerly residing on Ft. Campbell, Kentucky military base, was sentenced to 25 years in prison, followed by a life sentence of supervised release by Senior Judge Thomas B. Russell, in U.S. District Court on Nov. 19, 2015, for the offense of production of the sexually-explicit image of a minor, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced today that Johnny Ray Johnson, 58, of Wiscasset, Maine was sentenced today by in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to three years in prison and three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of firearms. He pled guilty on July 14, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: Husband and Wife Fraudulently Obtained Over $30 Million in Government Service Contracts, Embezzled Over $1.6 Million from Employee Benefits Plans and Evaded Payment of $492,961 in Taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - William Dennison, 24, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was convicted of possessing stolen firearms today in federal court, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is asking fluid milk processors and other interested parties to nominate candidates to serve on the National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will appoint six individuals to succeed members whose terms expire on June 30, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Ann Pelicci, former employee at the Pelicci Pain Center in Scranton, was sentenced to two years probation on Nov. 18, 2015, by Senior United States District Judge Edwin M. Kosik in Scranton, for her involvement in evasion of federal currency transaction reporting requirements by structuring cash transactions at several Northeast Pennsylvania banks between 2011 and 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - A jury has returned a guilty verdict against a former staff physician for the City of Houston of 14 counts of health care fraud in a $1 million health care fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Jocelyn Pyles, M.D., 58, was convicted today following a 3 ½ day trial in Houston.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: A leader of a Little Haiti based drug trafficking organization and identity theft tax fraud scheme was sentenced to 22 years’ imprisonment by Senior United States District Judge Donald L. Graham.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Patrick A. Nosack, 34, of Henderson, Nevada, was sentenced yesterday afternoon to thirty months in federal prison in connection with his role in a multi-million dollar timeshare resale scam that operated out of Las Vegas. Nosack was also ordered to pay restitution to his victims and serve five years of supervised release when he is released from federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A Glenview man who was hired by the Cook County Circuit Court Clerk’s Office after purportedly loaning $15,000 to a company controlled by the Clerk’s husband lied under oath when testifying about it before a grand jury, according to a federal indictment announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - Civic, religious and community leaders joined top law enforcement personnel today to continue an ongoing dialogue about building trust between law enforcement and the Chicagoland community.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: Birmingham Business Alliance discusses importance of employment opportunity in reducing crime and recidivism.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: GREENVILLE, Tenn. - Ten individuals indicted in February 2015 for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, theft of public money and money laundering conspiracy, have all been convicted and sentenced.
