News from April 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2013
News Release: Daniel Sion, 26, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by indictment with possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the indictment, Sion knowingly possessed a computer hard drive which contained one or more visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2013
News Release: Ascencion Sandoval-Aparicio, a/k/a "Acension Sanjoval," 39, of Mexico, was charged today by indictment with one count of illegal reentry after deportation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about March 8, 2013, Sandovai-Aparicio, an alien, and native...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - - DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the unsealing of charges against Antonio Indjai, the head of the Guinea-Bissau Armed Forces, for conspiring to provide aid to the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced former IRS employee Antonio Keith Willabus, age 47, of Laurel, Maryland today to four months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for falsely certifying on his time and attendance records that he worked 353.1 hours in 2012 when in fact he had not. Judge Russell also ordered Willabus to serve 400 hours of community service and to pay restitution of $24,427.45.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - JUSTIN L. ELLIS, 26, from Shawnee, Oklahoma, has been indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with malicious injury of a four-year old child in on the federal lands held in trust for the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2013
News Release: RYAN MICHAEL BURRAS, age 23, a resident of Slidell, Louisiana, was sentenced in federal court today by U. S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit import violations and to violating FDA laws by mislabelling and distributing synthetic marijuana, announced U.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2013
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Donald J. Cazayoux, Jr. announced that BRENDA MATTHEWS, age 59, was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day imprisonment for making false claims to an agency of the United States and two counts of identity theft. The Court also ordered restitution in the amount of $117,656.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee is continuing its bipartisan review of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), releasing today the second in a series of white papers examining a number of issues emerging with the current system. Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2013
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of St. Marys, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of wire fraud and money laundering, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and J.D. Patterson, Director, Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD), announced today the sentencing of Prabhainjana Dwivedi, a police officer with the Miami-Dade Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago physician associated with Sacred Heart Hospital on the city’s west side is facing federal charges for allegedly illegally prescribing hydrocodone to a hospital patient without having a valid license and registration to prescribe controlled substances. The defendant, Dr. KENNETH S. NAVE, allegedly illegally used the Drug Enforcement Administration registration number of another physician when he prescribed the hydrocodone last December.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), today held a hearing to examine the Global Investment in American Jobs Act of 2013. Chairman Terry put forward this draft legislation to help increase foreign direct investment in the United States and spur job creation.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 18, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, released a map today showing potential political bias influencing the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) Program grants.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 18, 2013
News Release: I want to start by getting something straight. If people say Social Security is “broke" or causing our deficit, they’re either lying or they don’t understand the facts. If I’m wrong, show me your numbers.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2013
News Release: OXFORD, Miss. B Felicia C. Adams, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi, and Daniel McMullen, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Mississippi, announce.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee is continuing its bipartisan review of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), releasing today the second in a series of white papers examining a number of issues emerging with the current system. Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) ...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), today held a hearing to examine the Global Investment in American Jobs Act of 2013. Chairman Terry put forward this draft legislation to help increase foreign direct investment in the United States and spur job creation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2013
News Release: TONTA J. OCTAVE, age 34, and his brother KAVIS OCTAVE, age 31, both residents of Vacherie, Louisiana, were sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Lance M. Africk, announced U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente. TONTA OCTAVE was sentenced to 120 months in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons, followed by...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa sent a letter to Department of Labor nominee Thomas Perez reminding him that has he not met his legal obligations to produce documents related to official business in his personal e-mail account pursuant to a subpoena...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2013
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces the return by the grand jury of a superseding indictment charging Jacksonville chiropractor Richie Cabigting (35), along with Haidar Kazim (28), Kassem Kazim (31) and Todd Jackson (26), all of Jacksonville, with conspiracy to...
