News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - The former managing clerk for a prominent, international law firm today admitted stealing sensitive, confidential information for use in a five-year insider trader scheme that yielded net profits of more than $5.6 million, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Ringwood, New Jersey, man today admitted transporting an American black bear he illegally killed in New Jersey across state lines to New York, and covering up the crime by creating false records and staging a fake kill site, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JERMAINE REYNOLDS, age 39, of Long Beach, Mississippi; DAVID HUMPHRIES, age 46, of Baltimore, Maryland; and MARLON BARNES, age 39, of New Orleans; were sentenced today for conspiring to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin. REYNOLDS had also pled guilty to one count of conspiring to launder money.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Toms River, New Jersey, woman today admitted filing false tax returns and using her accounting business to cheat her clients out of their tax refunds, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet. Jarod “Bull" Michel, 33, of Springfield...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Today, the Bureau of Land Management Colorado State Office sold 106 parcels totaling 83,534 acres for $5,021,931 including rentals and fees at its quarterly oil and gas lease sale. The highest per-acre price was for a 160-acre parcel in Weld County, sold to Colorado Energy Minerals in Denver for $1,200 per acre.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Daniel Lorenz, 45, pleaded guilty today to one count of possession of material involving the sexual exploitation of minors. U.S. District Judge William G. Young scheduled sentencing for Feb. 9, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Miguel Sotelo, 41, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to 11 years in prison and a $25,000 fine for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita attorney was sentenced Thursday to 30 months in federal prison for evading federal taxes, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - District Court Chief Judge Wilma A. Lewis on Nov. 10, 2015 sentenced Andelson Santiago, 24, of St. Croix, to 18 months’ imprisonment, three years of supervised release, and a $500 fine for possession of prison contraband, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: LOVELAND, Colo. -- The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Final Environmental Assessment (EA) and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for a Larimer County Parks and Open Lands Department (Larimer County Parks) proposal to construct new administrative and maintenance facilities. The project is located at Horsetooth Reservoir's South Bay Campground near Fort Collins, Colo.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that Jermaine Reynolds, age 39, of Long Beach, Mississippi; David Humphries, age 46, of Baltimore, Maryland; and Marlon Barnes, age 39, of New Orleans; were sentenced today for conspiring to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin. Reynolds had also pled guilty to one count of conspiring to launder money.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review a Draft Environmental Assessment for a proposed replacement of the C Canal Flume, about seven miles southeast of the city of Klamath Falls.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Frazier Todd, Jr., Roberta Sheffield, and Cozzie Walker, have been arraigned on federal charges of conspiring to defraud their clients and the IRS by intentionally misrepresenting to the IRS that those clients incurred qualified education-related expenses and were entitled to receive a refundable tax credit.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: Several indictments regarding drug trafficking and firearms crimes in Lorain County were recently unsealed in federal court as part of an ongoing coordinated enforcement initiative, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on Nov. 10, 2015 a federal grand jury in Scranton indicted Rehan A. Merchant, a/k/a Ray Merchant, a/k/a Aslam Ahmed, the former owner and operator of the Cigar and Tobacco Outlet in Tannersville, Pennsylvania, charging him with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A former real estate developer was sentenced today to 135 months in prison in connection with a multi-year, multi-property mortgage fraud scheme in Boston.
By State Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: Dear Colleague: The American financial sector is urging the world to step up its fight against climate change. Recently, six major U.S. banks published a letter calling for a “strong global climate agreement" urging global leaders to reach a meaningful agreement on climate change during the upcoming...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: An Akron man was arrested today on federal charges that he solicited the murder of members of the U.S. military.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: HONOLULU - Florence T. Nakakuni, United States Attorney for Hawaii, announced that Defendant Tineimalo Adkins was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Leslie E. Kobayashi to 210 months (17 ½ years) imprisonment on November 10. On Oct. 10, 2014, following a multiple-week trial, a jury found Adkins guilty of the crime of Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering Activity (VICAR).
