News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: Seventeen individuals have been charged in a 17-count indictment with conspiracy to commit bank fraud and various substantive bank fraud offenses, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1349 and 1344.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, in response to a letter sent this morning by Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Chairman Jason Chaffetz agreed to Cummings’ request to send a letter asking the Office of Government Ethics to review statements made...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - A Red Onion inmate, who pled guilty to sending threatening letters to four district courts throughout the country and then told a federal judge at his sentencing hearing that he planned to kill the people addressed in those letters once he got out of prison, was sentenced to five decades in federal prison today, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that John Franklin Coleman, III (46, Spring Hill) today pleaded guilty to bankruptcy fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The owner of four schools that enrolled hundreds of foreign nationals who fraudulently obtained immigration documents allowing them to remain in the United States as “students" - even though they rarely, if ever, attended classes - pleaded guilty today to federal immigration fraud charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: Rocio S. Ortiz, 30, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on February, 1, 2017, for being a felon in possession of firearms. Ortiz was arrested in Gillette, Wyoming. He received 57 months of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $100.00. This case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: Special agents with the National Park Service’s Investigative Services Branch (ISB) and park rangers are investigating the recent theft of ammunition from Crater Lake National Park.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today released a Record of Decision for a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement authorizing the translocation of more than 1,500 desert tortoises from military training areas near the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man was charged in federal court here today in two armed robberies at auto parts stores, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: DENVER -- The Acting United States Attorney for the District of Colorado, Bob Troyer, today announced the recovery of $300,000 as settlement of allegations that General Production Service of California, Inc. (“GPS") violated the federal False Claims Act by failing to pay money owed on oil produced from a federal lease.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Eric Miller announced today that John Boscia and Nate Burris have joined the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont as Assistant United States Attorneys in the Office’s Criminal Division. Mr. Boscia most recently served for three years as a litigator for the...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On February 8, 2017, United States Magistrate Judge Bruce McGiverin authorized a criminal complaint charging Waldemar Martínez-Ortiz with carjacking with serious bodily injury, announced United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez. The FBI is in charge of the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: San Juan, Puerto Rico - Carlos Ernesto Ochoa-Rocafort, Correctional Officer at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Guaynabo, PR, was indicted and arrested for providing contraband in prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez. The FBI is in charge of the investigation in collaboration with the Department of Justice - Office of the Inspector General (DOJ-OIG) and ATF.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that a federal grand jury handed down a two-count indictment against Coopersville, Michigan, resident Kevin John Grimm alleging that he conspired with Jerry Akers to defraud furniture manufacturer Herman Miller Inc. in a vendor...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On February 9, 2017, U.S. District Judge Michael J. McShane sentenced Jeffrey Edward Ownby, 30, of Medford, Oregon, to 198 months in federal prison for committing three armed bank robberies, using a sawed-off shotgun in committing a violent felony and unlawful possession of a destructive device. Ownby was ordered to pay restitution to his victims and will be on supervised release for five years following his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Felipe Lucero, 25, an enrolled member of the Isleta Pueblo who resides in Los Lunas, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 33 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on an assault charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - The last of four illegal aliens prosecuted in federal court for their roles in a March 2016 plot to invade a Calhoun County house, take a safe from it and deliver the residence’s occupants to a Dallas-based enforcer for drug organizations was sentenced today to one year and a day in prison, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey, Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Raymond R. Parmer Jr., and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger Stanton.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - GWENDOLYN VAN HORN, 44, of Mustang, Oklahoma, pleaded guilty this week for submitting a falsified document to The Bank of Union, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - Tatiana Farook, who is the sister-in-law of the male shooter in the San Bernardino attack, pleaded guilty today to federal immigration fraud charges related to a sham marriage discovered during the investigation into the Dec. 2, 2015 shooting spree that took the lives of 14 people.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, today released the following statement after meeting with former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue, President Trump’s nominee for Agriculture Secretary to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)...
