News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: One Defendant Admits Shooting and Blinding 62-Year-Old Man.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jeff Smith, age 29, of York, Pennsylvania, was indicted on November 9, 2016, by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: Team Honored at Annual Justice Department Ceremony.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the filing of a criminal complaint charging Ricardo Rodriguez, Jr. (24) and Brandon Mojica (23), both of Deltona, with armed bank robbery. If convicted, each faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in federal prison.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of November 14.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: Theodore J. Longust, age 51, formerly from Columbia, Illinois, was sentenced to a total of 121 months in prison as a result of his convictions in a nine-count Indictment charging: Count 1: Financial Institution Fraud; Counts 2 - 5: Misapplication of Funds; Counts 6 - 8: Money Laundering; and Count 9:...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: Small-business owners may think that they are too small to be victims of cyber hackers, but Pat Toth knows otherwise. Toth leads outreach efforts to small businesses on cybersecurity at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and understands the challenges these businesses face in protecting their data and systems.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Christopher Dillon, 52, of Lancaster, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Alan Ceccarelli, 31, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of November 14.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: A four-count superseding indictment was unsealed today in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging Cornell Bozier with one count of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and three substantive counts of federal program bribery. From April 2011 to April 2013...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: An attorney and lobbyist from Hollywood, Florida was sentenced to a year in federal prison for agreeing to launder what he believed to be the cash proceeds of illegal activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: Three Prosecutors and Two FBI Special Agents Receive U.S. Department of Justice Awards for St. Lawrence County Kidnaping Case.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: Madison, Wis. - John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Ramon Guzman-Torres, a/k/a Felix Manuel Velazquez Jr., 36, Arcadia, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James Peterson to one year and one day in federal prison for knowingly possessing firearms while being unlawfully present in the United States. Ramon Guzman-Torres pleaded guilty to this charge on Sept. 13, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A St. Albans woman pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Luci Jane McCormick, 39, entered her guilty plea to conspiracy to obtain controlled substances by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception, and subterfuge.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - A Pound, Virginia man, pled guilty to three felony charges earlier this week, including allowing a minor to be present at a cockfight, distribution of hydrocodone, and conspiring to facilitate cockfighting.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: (MILES CITY, Mont.) - A Montana Tyrannosaurus rex excavated from BLM-administered lands in McCone County has garnered attention and looks to take a spot next to previous finds that have rewritten the book on this popular dinosaur species.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: Charles Butler, 33, of Toledo, Ohio, pleaded guilty today to a federal hate crime for beating an African-American stranger he saw on the street. The plea was announced by Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division; U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon of the Northern District of Ohio and Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony of the FBI’s Cleveland Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: A British futures trader pleaded guilty today to U.S. fraud and spoofing charges in connection with an over five-year scheme to defraud, which included his role in the May 6, 2010, “Flash Crash,” when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 600 points in five minutes, announced Assistant Attorney General ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: A Montgomery County, Alabama resident was sentenced to 28 months in prison for his role in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. of the Middle District of Alabama.
