News from April 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: ELTON JOHNSON, age 28, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced today to 21 months of incarceration by U. S. District Judge Lance M. Africk after he pleaded guilty to a one count indictment for conspiracy to make false statements in connection with a firearm purchase, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a jury found Anthony Frederick “Tony" Giaimis, 48, of Westlake, La., guilty Wednesday of conspiring to distribute and of possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine. The jury also found him guilty of one count felony weapon possession. District Judge Patricia Minaldi presided over the trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: Mario Bravo Romualdo, 27, of Mexico pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to document fraud, arising from his possession of devices designed for making false federal and state identification documents, announced David Rivera, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that an Anchorage resident who had been indicted for three separate instances of wire fraud in connection with an insurance scam was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Anchorage.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today requested HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius provide more information on the $54 million award to fund community groups to help individuals navigate the health care law’s exchanges. This latest request continues the committee’s aggressive oversight of the new health law’s spending, implementation, and impact.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern district of Florida, José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CID), Miami Field Office, Rafael P. Hernandez, Jr., Chief, North Miami Beach Police Department, announced that defendants...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: SEATTLE - A Seattle man who had a home loaded with drugs, guns and cash, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to nine years in prison. Bernard Amin Mustafa III, 37, was arrested April 19, 2012, when agents with a search warrant found multiple drugs, fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Eric Colbert, age 38, of Albany, Georgia, entered a plea of guilty today to Count One of an Indictment charging him with Armed Robbery, in violation of Title 18 United States Code, Section 2113(a) & (d) and Count...
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 20, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Senior U.S. District Judge Charles C. Lovell, CASSANDRA JOAN FADNESS, a 60-year-old resident of Boulder, appeared for sentencing. FADNESS was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Njeazeh Roderigue Ambeabet, 24, of Lubbock, appeared in federal court today, before U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings, and pleaded guilty to one count of production of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas. Ambeabet faces a statutory...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: MOBILE, Ala. - Daniel Thomas Leslie Pence, 33, of Elmore, Alabama, was sentenced to 155 months imprisonment in federal court today for his participation in a conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine in Baldwin County. Pence entered a guilty plea to the charges in November of 2012. Court documents established...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: Storm names are reused every six years for both the Atlantic and eastern North Pacific basins. If a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of the name would be insensitive or confusing, the WMO hurricane committee, which includes personnel from NOAA’s National Hurricane Center, may retire the name. Sandy is the 77th name to be retired from the Atlantic list since 1954. The name will be replaced with “Sara" beginning in 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: Kerry Michael Deevy pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in Miami to 13 counts of an indictment pending against him, including one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, three counts of mail fraud, and nine counts of wire fraud, the Justice Department and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: Stephanie Charboneau, aka Stephanie Shankel, 34, of Fountain, Colo., formerly a Specialist in the United States Army, has been indicted in the District of Colorado for her alleged role in assisting the thefts of fuel in Afghanistan and laundering the proceeds of crime, Acting Assistant Attorney General ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: Derek Matthews, 46, of Harwood, Md., pleaded guilty today to accepting bribes from a government contracting company in exchange for using his position to help the company find and win contracts. Neil H. MacBride, U. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Mythili Raman, Acting Assistant Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: Ashraf Hassan-Gouda, a former resident of Mays Landing, N.J., pleaded guilty to one count of assisting in the preparation of a false federal individual income tax return, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. Hassan-Gouda was charged by a federal indictment returned on Mar. 27, 2007.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division today issued the 2013 edition of its annual newsletter on its website. The newsletter includes a message from Assistant Attorney General Bill Baer which focuses on the need to protect and promote competition in industries that directly affect the day-to-day lives of consumers, as well as articles about the Antitrust Division’s civil and criminal enforcement actions, international cooperation efforts and competition advocacy.
By Commerce News Now | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: Commerce Deputy Secretary Rebecca Blank Oral Statement for House Appropriations Subcommittee on FY14 Budget Chairman Wolf, Ranking Member Fattah, and distinguished Members of the Subcommittee, I am pleased to be here to discuss President Obama’s budget request for the Department of Commerce for Fiscal Year 2014.
By Commerce News Now | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: Commerce Deputy Secretary Rebecca Blank Oral Statement for Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on FY14 Budget Chairwoman Mikulski, Vice Chairman Shelby, and distinguished Members of the Subcommittee, I am pleased to be here to discuss President Obama’s budget request for the Department of Commerce for Fiscal Year 2014.
