News from February 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: Louisville, Ky. - A Louisville man appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Dave Whalin today, charged by Criminal Complaint with the assault of a United States Postal Carrier (while engaged in the performance of his official duties) and with the discharge of a firearm during the commission of a violent offense, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: Employer's names: John Whigham Sheeting Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 73-year-old former SEC accountant from Denton, Texas, has entered into a settlement concerning conflict of interest allegations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former employee of the Internal Revenue Service was sentenced in federal court today for using stolen identities in a scheme to receive $326,000 in fraudulent tax refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Feb. 19, 2016, Joshua Lee Lindsey, 30, of Lyman, S.C., was sentenced by the Honorable Pamela L. Reeves, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 180 months in federal prison for his leadership role in an extensive a-PVP (alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone) distribution conspiracy and an international money laundering conspiracy involving northeast Tennessee, southwest Virginia, western North Carolina and western South Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Timothy David Mays, age 51, of Walterboro, South Carolina was sentenced in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina, for Wire Fraud, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343, and Willfully Filing a False Income Tax Return, a...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Copper wire manufacturer Tecnofil Chenango SAC continues to expose workers at its Sherburne manufacturing plant to potential deadly or disabling injuries due to missing or inadequate safeguards for machines used in the manufacturing process, an inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: Today the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) released the Annual Firearms Manufacturers and Export Report (AFMER) which contains the latest numbers available for the amount of firearms manufactured and exported.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: In San Antonio, a mother and son have surrendered to federal authorities based on an alleged million dollar fraud scheme involving a local church owned by a different family member announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Lee Dotson, and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge William Cotter.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: A federal jury in El Paso convicted self-proclaimed licensed investment broker Roberto Trinidad Del Carpio Frescas of carrying out a Ponzi scheme that resulted in an estimated minimum $15 million loss announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Lee Dotson and El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Matthew Castricone, 27, of Salem, New Hampshire, pled guilty on Monday in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), will hold two hearings this week featuring testimony from Dr. John B. King, Jr., acting secretary of education. Members will first have the opportunity to broadly examine the department’s policies and priorities, followed up by a separate hearing on implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Today, Jun Yang, 36, of Richmond, British Columbia, Canada was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Cindy K. Jorgenson to five years probation, and a $25,000 fine. Yang previously pleaded guilty to smuggling.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Blake Rivera, 31, of Greece, NY, his brother Chayanne Rivera, 25, of Gates, NY, and their father, Victor Rivera, 51, of Rochester, NY, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation is preparing to increase releases below Nimbus Dam into the lower American River from 3,000 cubic feet per second to around 7,200 cfs to create space in Folsom Reservoir for projected runoff from the Sierra. Current storage in the reservoir is 131 percent...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management today announced new appointments or reappointments of members to the Boise District’s citizen-based Resource Advisory Council (RAC), which advise the agency on public land management issues. The RACs are composed of members with diverse interests and backgrounds.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States District Judge Elizabeth Kovachevich has sentenced Tom Kelly (St. Petersburg, 32) to 15 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute crack cocaine. He pleaded guilty in October 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Larry L. Masino, 65, of Gulf Breeze, and Dixie L. Masino, 63, of Pensacola, were arraigned today in the U.S. District Court in Pensacola after a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging them with wire fraud conspiracy, operating an illegal gambling business, money laundering conspiracy, and money laundering. The indictment was announced by Christopher P. Canova, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: A man who stole two handguns and broke into five homes in Minnesota and Iowa was sentenced on Feb. 16, 2016, to more than three years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Malik Shropshire, 43, of Charlotte was sentenced today to 51 months in prison for filing false tax returns and lying on a loan application, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Chief U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney ordered Shropshire to serve 3 years under court supervision following his prison term, and to pay $582,933 as restitution to IRS and $7,749.24 to a credit union he defrauded.
