News from April 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: In Del Rio today, the United States Attorney’s Office filed a motion to dismiss without prejudice charges against former Maverick County Purchasing Agent Juan Carlos Moncada.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSHUWA DIAZ, also known as “Fot," 22, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 78 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - Rodney Allen Thompson, 44, of McKinney, Texas, appeared today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Renée Harris Toliver and pleaded guilty to one count of transferring obscene material to a minor. He faces a 10-year federal prison sentence, up to a $250,000 fine and a lifetime of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney for the District of North Dakota Timothy Q. Purdon announced that four defendants have been arrested and charged by Criminal Complaint with criminal immigration offenses in federal court in North Dakota as a result of arrests made by United States Border Patrol in the course of disrupting an alleged alien smuggling attempt near Sherwood, N.D., on April 6, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A longtime construction official in the property maintenance department of the City of East Orange, N.J., was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for extorting money from a property owner in exchange for the official’s assistance in city government matters, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) announced the launch of the Committee’s new Twitter and Facebook accounts. The new Twitter handle, @SenateHSGAC, will be used to deliver up-to-the minute information regarding hearings and...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: PHOENIX - Robert Gene White, 45, of Chandler, Ariz. was found guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana and less than 500 grams of cocaine, conspiracy to commit money laundering and three counts of transactional money laundering. Nadunt Chibeast, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -At a Senate Finance Committee hearing today to consider Marilyn Tavenner’s nomination to be the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said that as administrator, Tavenner must work to strengthen Medicare and Medicaid for the future,...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) sent a letter to House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) requesting an oversight hearing to investigate the impacts of climate change on the oceans and on the people who live near the sea and depend upon it for their livelihoods.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that KEWAN WOODSON, also known as “Piggy" and “Pig," 20, of Hartford, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: Mark Murphy, 47, of Williamstown, NJ, was charged today by Information with participating in a mortgage fraud conspiracy involving more than 100 Philadelphia properties and more than $20 million in fraudulent loan proceeds, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Murphy is charged with one count of conspiracy to commit loan and wire fraud, and one count of loan fraud. The information also seeks the criminal forfeiture of over $324,000 from Murphy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: Dr. Michael David Goodwin Billed the Texas Medicaid Program at Least $2.6 Million for Services He Claimed He Provided.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: (NEW HAVEN, Conn.) - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Joshuwa Diaz, also known as “Fot," 22, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 78 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 51-year-old Yantis, Texas woman has pleaded guilty to federal firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 24-year-old Beaumont man has pleaded guilty to child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: The role of forensic science throughout the world is changing due to recent technological development. Whereas forensic science has traditionally supported police work, the field has begun moving into the spotlight as new research allows for more rapid and science-based reconstructions of crime scenes...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today challenged Ernest Moniz, President Obama’s nominee to lead the Department of Energy, to be, if confirmed, a strong voice within the administration for policies that are clearly and unambiguously working to keep energy abundant, affordable, clean, diverse and secure.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC and Employees Allegedly Bribed.
