News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - The owner of multiple U.S.-based energy companies pleaded guilty today to foreign bribery and tax charges for his role in a scheme to corruptly secure energy contracts from Venezuela’s state-owned and state-controlled energy company, Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 240 months in prison for his role in an armed carjacking spree between June 6, 2012, and June 22, 2012 U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Darrell Patrick Hinz, 51, of Cameron Park, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley to eight years and one month in prison and ordered to pay $18,830,000 in restitution for defrauding the United Auburn Indian Community (UAIC), conspiring to launder monetary instruments, and filing false tax returns, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: The Homestead Harmonizers will start off a weekend of special programs and musical performances during Homestead Days at Homestead National Monument of America. The Harmonizers will be on stage Saturday, June 18 at noon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: Nicolas Herrera, 55, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by Indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about May 19, 2016, Herrera, an alien, and native and citizen of the Dominican Republic, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about July 7, 2004 and July 22, 2009.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Nelson Nolasco was sentenced today to 420 months in prison by United States District Judge I. Leo Glasser at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn. In the middle of his jury trial held in November 2011, Nolasco pleaded guilty to robbery conspiracy, cocaine trafficking conspiracy, and firearm charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Yesterday, a federal jury found David E. Gorski, of Chelmsford, guilty of conspiracy to defraud the United States and wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that JOHN RICHARD FLOURNOY, age 47, of Coalgate, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 24 months of probation and was ordered to pay $13,402.50 in restitution, for THEFT OF GOVERNMENT FUNDS, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641 and a FORFEITURE ALLEGATION.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Under Secretary Lisa Mensah today announced the winners of the National Multi-Family Housing Site Manager of the Year award for 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: Used Fake Identities to Conceal His Role as Seller of the Properties and Recipient of the Sales Proceeds; Also Used Fake Down Payments, Fake Collateral and False Contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that two Winnfield men pleaded guilty Wednesday to possessing stolen firearms.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) sent a letter earlier this week to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew calling on the Treasury Department to stop obstructing Congressional oversight into the administration’s implementation of Obamacare’s cost sharing reduction (CSR) program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Six Coachella Valley residents have been charged by federal prosecutors with drug trafficking offenses, and four of the men face additional counts for illegal possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Scott McMahon, 33, of Orchard Park, New York, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to two years in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for pharmacy robbery. McMahon pleaded guilty to the charge on Feb. 12, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Raymond Morales, also known as “Freddy," 32, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: A Youngstown man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Bradley Earman, Acting ATF Special Agent in Charge for the Columbus Field Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: Long-Time Massachusetts Fugitive Arrested in North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 26-year-old woman who admitted to participating in a heroin and cocaine trafficking conspiracy headed by her father in Monroe and Wayne Counties in 2011-2014, was sentenced to 27 months in prison today by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that ANTONIO JUAN PAREDES, age 26, of Broken Bow, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 24 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release for ASSAULT WITH A DANGEROUS WEAPON, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1153, 1151 and 113(a)(3).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Bob Odrzywolski, 72, of Lockport, NY, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of firearms before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Woldford. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
