News from April 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: MIAMI - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney of the Southern District of Florida, announced that Jose Evaristo Linares-Castillo, a/k/a “Don Eva," has been extradited from Colombia to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Beverly Brooker, 65, of Philadelphia, PA was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison for a scheme to collect Retirement Insurance Benefits intended for her deceased great aunt. Brooker pleaded guilty on November 7, 2012 to theft of government funds and Social Security representative...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Edgar A Lockett, Jr., was arrested yesterday on felony charges outlined in a federal indictment returned by a federal grand jury earlier this month, and just unsealed, charging tax evasion. Lockett made his initial appearance this morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge Clinton E. Averitte...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Ramy Ahmed, 30, of Allentown, PA, was charged today by indictment with transportation of child pornography, distribution of child pornography, possession of child pornography, coercion and enticement of a minor, and traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, announced United...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a senior member of EPW, made the following statement regarding the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) revisions on their miscalculated emissions estimates that come from natural gas production through hydraulic fracturing.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: Fayetteville, West Virginia, April 30, 2013 - The National Park Service will be completing necessary repairs to the Rend Trail, previously known as the Thurmond-Minden Trail. Beginning June 3rd through September 28th, project crews will be repairing a blowout in the 32 feet high historic dry stacked...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A former employee in the New Jersey offices of the Vacation Ownership Group LLC admitted today he conspired to defraud owners of timeshare properties by offering phony consulting services while also illegally collecting unemployment benefits, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Sampson Antonio, Jr., 24, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Crownpoint, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to involuntary manslaughter under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today applauded the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decision to make secret "sue-and-settle" practices more difficult. Sue-and-settle is frequently used by environmental groups in coordination with the Obama Administration. The ruling takes a step forward in bringing transparency to the settlement process that is currently leaving stakeholders out of negotiations.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney of the Southern District of Florida, and Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Miami Field Division, announced that Jose Evaristo Linares-Castillo, a/k/a “Don Eva," has been extradited from Colombia to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: NEW YORK - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that the United States has settled a civil lawsuit against Madison Avenue (“Madison...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: New Haven, Conn. - United States Attorney David B. Fein, 52, has announced his resignation, effective May 13, 2013, and his intention to return to the private sector.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: Two National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) scientists, David Wineland and David Nesbitt, have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: War in the Pacific National Historical Park will host a commemorative flag display at Asan Beach on Saturday, May 25 in observance of Memorial Day. As part of Memorial Day events at National Parks across the nation, over 3,050 United States and Guam flags will be placed at Asan Beach. Each U.S. flag...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Laun McCloskey, age 19, of Rosebud, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on April 30, 2013, and pled guilty to Abusive Sexual Contact. The maximum penalty upon conviction is life in custody, a $250,000 fine, or both; life of supervised release; and $100 to the Federal Crime Victims Fund.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), announced that the EPW Committee will conduct oversight into the circumstances surrounding the chemical disaster in West, Texas, as well as an examination of the chemical safety laws that apply ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: MOBILE, Ala. - Roderick Levar Jones, 33, of Prichard, Alabama, was sentenced yesterday in federal court to 87 months imprisonment, for his participation in a violent home invasion during November of 2011 in Chickasaw, Alabama. Jones entered a guilty plea to the charge of accessory after the fact to kidnapping...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: POCATELLO -Trevor James Hurley, 20, of Blackfoot, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 36 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for arson, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Hurley appeared before Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill at the federal courthouse in Pocatello.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: Two Canton men were named in an eight-count indictment, accused of allegedly participating in numerous burglaries and thefts of coins, jewelry, silver bars from businesses and then selling the stolen goods in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Illinois, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: Kenyen Brown, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, announces that defendant Nehal Bodalia, who pled guilty to healthcare fraud information in February, was sentenced to four years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay a $20,000 fine. From at least...
