News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Steven W. Johnson, Ph.D., 50, of Elkins Park, PA, was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison for theft from a program receiving federal funds. Johnson pleaded guilty on April 30, 2015 to one count of misusing federal funds for cancer research to conduct a for-profit business. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Court Judge Paul S. Diamond also ordered Dr. Johnson to pay restitution of $69,379.02 and a $100 special assessment.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 13, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Ideal Sales Inc. satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Special Agent in Charge Gary Tuggle announced today that the Jim Thorpe Police (JTPD) and the Lehighton Borough Police (LBPD) requested the assistance of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Allentown Resident Office with an operation that targeted heroin traffickers operating in Jim Thorpe.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Philip Barnard, Jr., 54, of McLean, was sentenced today to 63 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for one count of wire fraud and three counts of money laundering for his role in a gold investment fraud scheme involving multiple investors and up to $1 million in investor deposits. Barnard was also ordered by the court to pay $816,612 in restitution to victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - BARBARA BYRD-BENNETT pleaded guilty in federal court today to using her position as chief executive officer of the Chicago Public Schools to guide lucrative no-bid contracts to her former employer in exchange for bribes and kickbacks.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2015
News Release: WICHITA KAN. - A Garden City man was sentenced Tuesday to 110 months in federal prison for distributing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 13, 2015
News Release: The Obed Wild and Scenic River announces a Civil War lecture and book signing on Saturday, November 7, beginning at 1 p.m. (ET). Dr. Aaron Astor of Maryville College will speak about the Civil War and how it affected Morgan County, Tennessee. Dr. Astor is the author of the book The Civil War in the Cumberland...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that, CESAR PENSON-PEREZ, 28, of New York, N.Y., was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for participating in a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme that resulted in a loss of more than $7.5 million from the U.S. Treasury.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A sophisticated malware package designed to steal banking and other credentials from infected computers has been disrupted, and charges have been filed in the Western District of Pennsylvania against a Moldovan administrator of the botnet known as “Bugat," “Cridex" or “Dridex." Actions taken by the U.K. and the U.S. substantially disrupted the botnet.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A criminal complaint has been filed charging Donta Betts, age 19, of Baltimore, with attempted arson of a police cruiser, civil disorder and unlawful making of a destructive device. The criminal complaint was filed on October 6, 2015 and unsealed today. Betts was arrested on July 7, 2015, on unrelated state charges. Betts will make his initial appearance on the federal charges on Friday, Oct. 23, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. in U.S. District Court in Baltimore.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., applauded the Senate for confirming Tom Reeder to be director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). The Senate confirmed Reeder’s nomination by voice vote yesterday evening.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that RYAN TOMAZIN, the founder and managing partner of R2 Capital Group LLC (“R2 Capital"), was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to six months in prison for crimes stemming from his defrauding investors...
By State Newswire | Oct 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement welcoming to the United States the President of the Republic of Korea, Park Guen-hye...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2015
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Howard Eugene Hazelton II, age 63, of East Greenbush, was sentenced today to serve 72 months in prison for distribution, receipt, and possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Andrew W. Vale, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2015
News Release: Joshua Linkous Previously Pled Guilty to Sexually Assaulting Three Victims.
By State Newswire | Oct 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the recent violence in Israel...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2015
News Release: Denise K. Dodson, 45, of Troy, Illinois, was sentenced in the U.S. District Court to 70 months in prison for Conspiracy to Commit Bank Robbery and Bank Robbery in connection with the robbery of the May 2013 robbery of Scott Credit Union in O’Fallon, Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 13, 2015
News Release: Boulder City, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation announced today that Valerie Simon will assume the position of Reclamation’s Salton Sea Program Manager. In this role, Simon will continue Reclamation’s work in providing technical expertise to California state and local agencies, irrigation districts and...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Gilbert Stokes, age 47, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 18 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for the Dec. 12, 2013 armed robbery of a convenience store. Stokes also admitted to the attempted armed robbery of a hotel on December 6, 2013, and committing the armed robbery of a fast food restaurant on Dec. 23, 2013.
