News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: Stole Identities from D.C. Government Agency for Use in Filing False Tax Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Deangelo A. Rome, 25, of Pensacola, pled guilty today to unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. The guilty plea was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Richard C. Sihner, 54, of Elk Grove, was sentenced today to two years and six months in prison for a scheme to fraudulently obtain bonuses in a recruitment program for the California National Guard, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOL Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: Employer Name: Edge Plastics Inc., 449 Newman St., Mansfield, Ohio
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - An Arkansas man pleaded guilty Tuesday to selling counterfeit Garmin maps over the Internet, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: Over $200,000 in theft during a two-year period.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - The ring-leader of a group of individuals who were involved in the January 2015 take-over style robbery of an AT&T store in Grand Prairie, Texas, was sentenced yesterday to a lengthy federal prison sentence, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that, on May 2, 2016, Jesse Harris, 38, of Brooklyn, New York was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison after his guilty plea to charges that he distributed heroin. U.S. District Court Judge William K. Sessions III also ordered that Harris serve three years of supervised release following his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of theft of government property, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: DAYTON - David Pate, 28, of Dayton, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 90 months in prison for possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Kenneth Parker, of Keams Canyon, Ariz., a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John J. Tuchi to 23 years in prison, followed by a term of 5 years of supervised release. Parker had previously pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual abuse of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: More than 1,300 individuals’ debit cards compromised resulting in losses of more than $709,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Samuel Murad (62, Clearwater) has pleaded guilty to tax evasion and witness tampering. He faces a maximum penalty of 5 years’ imprisonment for the tax evasion count and up to 20 years in federal prison for the witness tampering count. His sentencing hearing has been set for August 4, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: This week, Bureau of Land Management officials will begin installing emergency fuel breaks along roads in the low country of Owyhee County to reduce the threat of wildfire. The project is part of the emergency rehabilitation efforts for last year’s 280,000-acre Soda Fire.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: BOISE - The United States Attorney’s Office and US Postal Inspectors have seen a recent uptick of sweepstakes fraud victims in Southeastern Idaho, to include the Pocatello, Montpelier and Preston areas. Inspectors’ last trip through the area to speak to victims discovered losses of over $70,000 due to foreign lottery scams.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former chief executive officer of a company that provided pharmacy dispensing services today admitted to filing a false federal income tax return, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Scott Lampert, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General’s (“HHS-OIG") New York Region, announced today that the United States has filed a complaint alleging...
By Homeland Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Sunday, President Obama signed The Department of Homeland Security Headquarters Consolidation Accountability Act of 2015, into law. This legislation, sponsored by Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.),...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that former New York State Assembly Speaker SHELDON SILVER was sentenced this afternoon to 12 years in prison after having been found guilty by a federal jury of using his official position to obtain nearly...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: A Philadelphia man was sentenced to 33 years in prison today for his involvement in the violent armed robbery of Tapper’s Diamonds and Fine Jewelry in West Bloomfield and an attempted armed robbery of Medawar Jewelers in Grand Rapids in April 2014, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced.
