News from April 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge this week sentenced a former Social Security Administration service representative to 70 months in prison for access-device fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Social Security Administration, Office of Inspector General, Special Agent in Charge Guy Fallen.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: Philadelphia -- Patricia "Trish" Kicklighter has been selected as the new superintendent of New River Gorge National River and the associated Gauley River National Recreation Area and Bluestone National Scenic River. Since 2009, she has been the Superintendent at Assateague Island National Seashore.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - An heir to the Scripps Media fortune was convicted today by a federal jury in Philadelphia for embezzling $3.6 million from members of his family to fund his lavish lifestyle, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) released the following statement thanking Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Jane Holl Lute for her service. Earlier this week Deputy Secretary Lute announced her decision to step down from the Department of Homeland Security...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: On Wednesday, April 17 at 10:00 a.m., the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), will mark up the Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013 (H.R. 1406). The markup will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - After deliberating for seven hours, a federal jury of four men and eight women found Catherine Slane guilty of four counts of conspiracy and wire fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces the return of an indictment charging Abdul Cunningham and Jana Harris-Cunningham with five counts of wire fraud, five counts of filing a false claim with the Internal Revenue Service, four counts of theft of government property, and five...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Wayne Reed Ogden, age 48, of Koosharem, Utah, charged with wire and securities fraud in connection with a Ponzi scheme involving real estate, pleaded guilty Friday morning in federal court to one count of wire fraud and one count of securities fraud. In a separate case tried to a federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a jury found a 23-year-old inmate guilty of retaliating against another inmate for being a government witness in a drug-trafficking trial. Following a four-day trial, the jury convicted Veronique Zsa zsa Antique Muckle, of Superior, Wisconsin, on one count of federal witness retaliation. Muckle was indicted on Sept. 11, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Helena, on April 11, 2013, before Senior U.S. District Judge Charles C. Lovell, MIKE KURT CHILINSKI, a 52-year-old resident of Jefferson City, appeared for sentencing. CHILINSKI was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Three Colombian nationals have been ordered to prison for lengthy terms following multiple convictions including drug conspiracy, firearms charges, identity theft and false claims of citizenship, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. The jury returned its verdicts against Carlos Manuel Boria, Francisco Javier Rodriguez, and Edwin Rivera-Otero, on Monday, Oct. 1, 2012, following a five-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on April 4, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah C. Lynch, COLEEN FURTHMYRE, a 46-year-old resident of Helena (formerly Anaconda), pled guilty to theft of government money. Sentencing has been set for July 29, 2013. She is currently released on special conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Antonio Edwards, age 29, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 278 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Judge Motz found that Edwards was an armed career criminal based on five previous convictions for possession with intent to distribute narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Cartemus London, 38, of Chicago, Illinois, formerly a resident of Southern Illinois, was sentenced in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois for defrauding the unemployment...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: Leaders of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation sent a bipartisan letter today to the Administration expressing profound disappointment with the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) unprecedented decision to close...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Charles Rangel (D-NY) made the following statement today regarding the Obama administration’s announcement concerning Japan’s possible entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: Hammond, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Marcus Edward Michael Todd Moore, 34, of Santa Rosa, Calif., entered a guilty plea this morning to a felony information charging him with transporting an individual in interstate commerce to engage in prostitution. The guilty plea was entered under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury sitting in New Haven has returned a 15-count indictment charging WILLIE E. McKAY, 38, of New Haven, with aiding and assisting in the preparation and filing of false federal income tax returns. The indictment was returned on April 9 and unsealed today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: Dwight Berry, 28, Antonio Ellis, 27, Jermau Johnston, 18, all of Philadelphia, and Aski Washington, 33, of Darby, are charged by indictment, filed yesterday, in a conspiracy to rob a drug dealer’s stash house, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The defendants are charged with conspiracy...
