News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - Earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, Ahmad Sheikhzadeh, a United States citizen and resident of New York City, pled guilty to filing a false income tax return that substantially understated the amount of cash salary he received from Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Anthony Derrico, 36, of Grand Junction, Colorado, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to transporting child pornography. He was indicted on June 22, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: The FBI recently released statistics on hate crimes committed in the US in 2015. Hate crimes are one of the highest priorities of the Department of Justice and the FBI because of the devastating impact they have on families and communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: NOV 21 - HARTFORD, 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 Rudy Hernandez, 43, of New London, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A senior engineering officer employed by an Italian shipping company was sentenced today to eight months in prison for deliberately concealing a vessel’s discharge of oily waste into the sea, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: Las Vegas - During the Thanksgiving weekend, visitation at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area increases with the most congested time anticipated between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Traffic may also be slowed by construction near the Calico I parking lot.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: FBI Announces Executive Appointments. FBI Director James B. Comey has announced the following leadership appointments: Timothy Slater Named Special Agent in Charge of the Criminal Division for the Washington Field Office. In August, Mr. Slater was appointed as the special agent in charge of the Denver...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on Nov. 18, 2016, the Honorable John M. Gerrard, U.S. District Court Judge, sentenced Aaron C. Kreifels to 30 months imprisonment, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, and he was ordered to pay a total of $300 in special assessments...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Steven A. Helms, II, 35, of Clarksburg, West Virginia pled guilty to a heroin distribution charge, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: A Euclid man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for having more than 900 pills of fentanyl, crack cocaine and a firearm, said Acting U.S. Attorney Carole Rendon.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: Senator Hirono Honors Park with Centennial Resolution; Plants Silverswords with Local.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Howard County youth gymnastics coach Paul Daniel Bollinger, age 57, of Windsor Mill, Maryland pleaded guilty today to distribution of child pornography. Bollinger worked as a youth gymnastics coach in Maryland for over 30 years prior to his arrest in this case.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: Efrain Antonio Campo Flores and Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas Conspired to Import Over 800 Kilograms of Cocaine Into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: Mateo Allegedly Stole More Than $6,000 at Gunpoint.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: Three Toledo residents were convicted for forging a will to fraudulently gain control of an estate worth approximately $2.2 million, said U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon and Kathy A. Enstrom, Special Agent in Charge, IRS Criminal Investigation, Cincinnati Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Ally Financial Inc. has agreed to pay the United States $52 million to settle allegations that its subsidiaries acted improperly in relation to 10 subprime residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS) in 2006 and 2007.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: MOOSE, WY - A long-time Grand Teton National Park volunteer has been recognized for his service. Harrison Goodall, a professional building conservator from Langley, Washington, received this year’s Hartzog Enduring Service Award for the Intermountain Region of the National Park Service. As a volunteer...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: A psychiatrist from Oregon, Ohio, was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison for tax evasion, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon for the Northern District of Ohio, and Kathy A. Enstrom, Special Agent in Charge, IRS Criminal Investigation, Cincinnati Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man was sentenced today to 40 months in prison for distributing large quantities of heroin in and around downtown Newark, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Timothy Ryan, 32, of South Bend, Indiana was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Robert Miller for distribution, receipt, and possession of child pornography.
