News published on Federal Newswire in April 2013

News from April 2013


News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Lee’s Summit, Mo., youth soccer coach was charged in federal court today with producing child pornography by secretly videotaping members of his soccer team. Joel...


News Release: Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Seeking Volunteers to Adopt-a-Trail, Campsite or Beach.


Navajo Man Sentenced To 17 Years In Prison For Kidnapping

News Release: PHOENIX --- On April 22, 2013, Brian Douglas Kanuho, 47, of Low Mountain, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 204 months imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release. Kanuho pleaded guilty on Feb. 27, 2013, to kidnapping.


Former Woodruff Arts Center Employee Pleads Guilty To Embezzlement

News Release: ATLANTA - Ralph Clark pleaded guilty today to embezzling more than $1.1 million from the Woodruff Arts Center while serving as Woodruff’s Director of Facilities.


Cherry Creek Man Convicted For Assaulting, Resisting Or Impeding A Federal Officer

News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Kaleb Earl Hollow Horn, age 25, of Cherry Creek, South Dakota appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on April 16, 2013 and pled guilty to the Superseding Information that charged him with Assaulting, Resisting or Impeding a Federal Officer. The maximum penalty upon conviction is 8 years of custody, a $250,000 fine, or both; a $100 assessment; and restitution.


News Release: Dear Mr. Speaker: We are writing to strongly object to your decision to issue a partisan Republican staff report on Benghazi and dispense with House procedures for vetting official committee reports to correct inaccuracies and mischaracterizations. By abandoning regular order and excluding Democratic...


Andover Business Owner Is Charged With Obstruction

News Release: BOSTON - An Andover man was charged in an Information with obstructing a grand jury investigation by altering and deleting documents from his computer.


News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury.


Rosebud Woman Pleads Guilty To Assault

News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Toni Good Shield, a/k/a Toni Little Thunder, age 29, of Rosebud, South Dakota appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on April 16, 2013 and pled guilty to Assault Resulting in Substantial Bodily Injury.


News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on April 23, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Keith Strong, the following individual was arraigned.


Baucus Statement on Improving Child Foster Care System

News Release: Winston Churchill once said, “There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues - the most dominating virtues of human society - are created, strengthened and maintained.".


Finance Committee Approves Marilyn Tavenner to Lead Medicare, Medicaid

News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today applauded the committee’s approval of Marilyn Tavenner to be administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) by a unanimous voice vote. At a committee hearing to consider her nomination on April 9, Senator...


News Release: St. Louis, MO - Dr. Anthony Calandro was sentenced to 72 months imprisonment and ordered to pay $1,018,746 restitution for billing 18 insurance companies and patients for services the patients did not receive and using pension plan funds, without authorization, to buy stock and to purchase several Florida...


Park Completes First "State of the Park" Report (Salem)

News Release: New Report Summarizes Status of Natural, Historic and Cultural Resources.


Indiana, Pa., Man Charged With Possessing Sexually Explicit Images Of Children

News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Indiana County, Pa. has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.


Baltimore Man Exiled to over 11 Years in Prison on Drug Charges

News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Tracey Betters, age 21, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 135 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine.


French Citizen Charged With Fraud In Airplane Incident

News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Philippe Jeannard, 61, of La Rochelle, France, is charged by information1, filed today, with one count of fraud in connection with an identification document, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the information, when Jeannard boarded a commercial airplane...


News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Toni Weirauch, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue...


New Haven Man Sentenced To 30 Months In Federal Prison For Distributing Heroin

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, today announced that Javon Floyd, also known as “Twin," 23, of New Haven, was sentenced yesterday by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing heroin.


Federal Court Issues Permanent Injunction Prohibiting Los Angeles Tax Service And Its Owner From Preparing Federal Tax Returns

News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has permanently barred Yonny Torres, who does business under the name Yonny’s Income Tax in downtown Los Angeles, from preparing federal tax returns, the Justice Department announced today.