News from April 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota man convicted of Assault by Striking, Beating and Wounding was sentenced to 6 months in custody on April 2, 2013 by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: REGINALD R. HARPER, age 59, a resident of Hammond, Louisiana, and TROY A. FOUQUET, age 45, a resident of Covington, Louisiana, were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown for conspiracy to commit bank fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente. HARPER was sentenced to 24 months...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Derek M. Schwartzrock, 34, a children’s minister in an Albuquerque-area church, was arrested yesterday on federal child pornography charges by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the New Mexico State Police (NMSP). Schwartzrock is scheduled to make his initial appearance in federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: An indictment was filed charging Mickael C. Jones, age 36, of Bowling Green, Ohio, with taking approximately $14,000 from the Department of Veterans Affairs, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - A superseding indictment was unsealed yesterday evening in federal court in Brooklyn charging New York City Police Officer Jose Tejada with armed robbery conspiracy, narcotics distribution conspiracy, and the unlawful use of a firearm. Tejada is a 17-year veteran of the New York City Police...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: JAIRO MAURICIO SAGASTUME-ALVARENGA, age 29, a citizen of Honduras, and WALTER ANDRES RAMIREZ, age 30, a citizen of El Salvador, were each sentenced today in federal court by U. S. District Judge Eldon E. Fallon, announced U.S. Attorney Dana Boente. SAGASTUME was sentenced to thirty-six (36) months imprisonment...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: Defendants’ “Pump And Dump" Scheme Targeted “Penny" Stocks.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: YAHIA ASAD, age 50, of Tallahassee, Florida, was sentenced yesterday by Chief United States District Judge Sarah S. Vance to 51 months imprisonment, announced U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente. Additionally, ASAD was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $379,310.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement in response to the report “Managing the Future of a Rapidly Changing Arctic" by the federal interagency working group tasked with coordinating oil and natural gas permitting in Alaska:
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A Westmoreland County man pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
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By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: Join the National Park Service for a free campfire program on Saturday, May 4, 2013 at John Muir National Historic Site (NHS) in Martinez, CA. The program begins at 7 p.m. and lasts roughly 1.5 hours. Rangers will lead the group in songs, skits and stories to celebrate the legacy of John Muir, one of the greatest naturalists and conservationists the United States has ever known.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: CONCORD, NH- Monadnock Community Hospital of Peterborough, New Hampshire, without admitting liability, has entered into a settlement agreement to resolve allegations that it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA") by failing to provide appropriate auxiliary aids and services (such as sign language interpreters) that were necessary to ensure effective communication with deaf or hard-of-hearing individuals, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PATRICIA A. BROWN, 22, a prisoner at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Danbury, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to a consecutive 21-month term of imprisonment for assaulting another inmate.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Troy A. Rawlings, 33, of Meridian, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in federal court to count one of the indictment charging him with conspiracy to sell, offer for sale, and transport drug paraphernalia, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Rawlings and his co-defendant, Jason Guerrero, 34, of Boise, Idaho, were indicted by a federal grand jury on May 9, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Anthony J. Kirk, D.P.M., 61, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, was sentenced to six months in prison, fined $15,000, and ordered to pay $65,110 in restitution for committing health care fraud, U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today. Upon release from prison, Dr. Kirk will be placed...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - An initial appearance in federal court has been scheduled for April 26, 2913, for a Fruit Heights, Utah, man charged with filing a false tax return, attempted tax evasion, and evasion of payment in an indictment returned by a grand jury in Salt Lake City.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Uncompahgre Field Office will initiate an Environmental Impact Statement for a proposal to drill up to 146 natural gas wells and four water disposal wells in the Bull Mountain Unit, and construct associated access roads and pipelines.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota man convicted of Assaulting a Federal Officer was sentenced on April 3, 2013 by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2013
News Release: JONATHAN LAPORTE, age 27, of Covington, Louisiana, was sentenced today by U. S. District Judge Eldon E. Fallon to 100 months imprisonment for the Jan. 13, 2012, robbery of a Citizens Bank and Trust in Mandeville, Louisiana, announced U. S Attorney Dana Boente.
