News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that BRADER YELVERTON, age 24, of Thibodaux, was charged today in a one-count Bill of Information with obtaining unauthorized access to protected computers to acquire information.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, issued the following statement on improvements to student loan servicing announced today in a Department of Education policy memo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Veronica Cantu, 27, of Nampa, Idaho, was sentenced today for distributing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill sentenced Cantu to 38 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Cantu pleaded guilty to the charge on April 25, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The Justice Department announced today the filing of civil forfeiture complaints seeking the forfeiture and recovery of more than $1 billion in assets associated with an international conspiracy to launder funds misappropriated from a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Veronica Cantu, 27, of Nampa, Idaho, was sentenced today for distributing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill sentenced Cantu to 38 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Cantu pleaded guilty to the charge on April 25, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: Beatrice, Nebraska -Come on out to enjoy the String Beans in concert at Homestead National Monument of America's Education Center on Saturday July 30, 2016 at 7 p.m! This summer Homestead is celebrating its 80th birthday and the Centennial of the National Park Service with a Centennial Concert Series on Saturday evenings through mid-August.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that four St. Joseph, Mo., residents were indicted by a federal grand jury today for their roles in a $1.5 million tax fraud scheme as well as individual tax fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that WILLIAM DAVIS, the former president of the Federation of Government Employees (“AFGE") Local 1119 (the “Union"), was sentenced today to 15 months in prison in connection with embezzling approximately $150,000 of the Union’s funds. DAVIS pled guilty on April 6, 2016, and was sentenced today in White Plains federal court by U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Karas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on July 19, 2016, a federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment against Matthew T. White, Jr. (age: 27) of Keshena, Wisconsin, charging him with Sexual Abuse of a Minor Under the Age of 16 in violation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Richard Isaac Quezada, 33, of Las Cruces, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to violating the federal firearms laws. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Quezada will be sentenced to 60 months in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Christian Tafolla, 26, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to robbing an Albuquerque-area Wells Fargo Bank branch on March 18, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Donte Maurice Johnson, age 30, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 183 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for two commercial robberies and for using and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. The sentencing was held on July 19, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOHN GALANIS, a/k/a “Yanni," pled guilty today to manipulating the market for Gerova Financial Group, Ltd. (“Gerova"), a publicly traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and to defrauding the shareholders of that company. GALANIS pled guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud and securities fraud before U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Richard Isaac Quezada, 33, of Las Cruces, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to violating the federal firearms laws. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Quezada will be sentenced to 60 months in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - John David Lee Bacy, 24, a member and resident of Zuni Pueblo, N.M., pled guilty today to firearms and residential burglary charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: Former Wells Fargo Branch Manager and Two Others Charged with Laundering Proceeds of Trademark Scam.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Grand Junction Field Office is seeking public comments on five new commercial Special Recreation Permit applications.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: BOISE - The Bureau of Land Management Idaho will offer leasing rights on eight parcels of land totaling 9,243 acres near Payette, Idaho, within the Four Rivers Field Office, in a competitive oil and gas lease sale on July 27. The lease sale is scheduled for 9 a.m. at BLM Idaho’s State Office at 1387 S. Vinnell Way, in Boise. The registration table will open at 7:45 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: BANGOR, Maine - - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Mark Tasker, a/k/a “Mackie", 49, of Dexter, Maine; Greg Tasker, 28, of Stetson, Maine; and Eugene Moulton, 67, and Antoinette...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ERICA EDWARDS, age 31, of New Orleans, and JEFF KOON, age 43, of Lockport, each pleaded guilty today to one count of health care fraud.
