News from August 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: Waterline Renovation Project Led to $3,980,000 Cleanup.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: A Jamaican citizen charged in connection with the operation of a fraudulent lottery was arrested Tuesday in Orlando, Fla., following his indictment by a federal grand jury in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Aug. 9, 2012, the Justice Department, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, two individuals were sentenced for their roles in a large, multi-state, identity theft ring. United States District Judge Paul A. Magnuson sentenced Russell Raymond Royals, age 61, of Cottage Grove, to 120 months in prison; and Desmon Desmond Burks...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: ATLANTA - Thomas Dickson has pleaded guilty to defrauding more than 50 clients out of funds that were deposited into his law firm’s trust account.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, announced today that a federal grand jury in Cleveland, Ohio, returned an indictment charging Perry T. Johnson, age 22, of Cleveland Ohio, in connection with his escape from the Bedford Heights Jail on Aug. 12, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that YVONNE DAVIS, 62, a prisoner at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Danbury, pleaded guilty today before Senior United States District Judge Warren W. Eginton in Bridgeport to one count of assault with a dangerous weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. -David M. Kwiatkowski, 34, a former employee of Exeter Hospital, pleaded guilty today to eight counts of obtaining controlled substances by fraud and eight counts of tampering with a consumer product, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles sentenced Daheem Bryant-Royal, age 23, of Ft. Meade, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for sexual abuse of a minor that occurred on the Ft. Meade military base on September 4, 2011. Judge Quarles...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Jefferson City, Mo., man was convicted in federal court today of illegally possessing six firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: CHARLESTON - A Charleston man pleaded guilty in federal court to possession of a stolen firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Brian M. Smith, 30, illegally purchased a Kel Tec 9-millimeter pistol from a person on Dec. 2, 2009. Smith pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Thomas E. Johnston in Charleston.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - On Aug. 13, 2013, four residents of Johnstown, Pa., were indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. - Patricia M. Wissinger, currently superintendent of Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area in Atlanta, has been selected as the new deputy superintendent at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. She is scheduled to report to her new assignment in mid-September.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Dover, NH, man was convicted yesterday in federal court of defrauding the City of Lawrence of more than $5,000 while serving as the Director of the city’s Informationi Technology (IT) Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States District Judge John E. Steele sentenced Dr. Stephen M. Lovell (55, Windermere) to five years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit health care fraud. As part of his sentence, the court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $1.695 million, the proceeds of the offense. A jury found Lovell guilty on Feb. 28, 2013, following a two-week trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Charlie Cohoe, 33, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Pine Hill, N.M., was sentenced on Aug. 8, 2013, to 87 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his federal assault conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Former Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., 48, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for conspiring to defraud his re-election campaigns of about $750,000 in funds that were used to pay for personal items and expenses, including high-end appliances and electronics, and then filing misleading reports to conceal seven years of the illegal activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An East Stroudsburg, Pa., couple admitted today to fraudulently obtaining at least $272,247 in student loan proceeds from Liberty University and American Public University by using stolen identities to have the money directed to addresses where they could intercept it, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Winthrop man was sentenced late yesterday in federal court for his role in a $7 million fraud scheme that centered on steering clients into investments in “life settlements.".
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Fermore Joseph Craig, Jr., 43, of Pendleton, Oregon, pled guilty yesterday before U. S. District Judge Michael W. Mosman to one count of abusive sexual contact and one count of making false statements to the FBI. The maximum sentence for abusive sexual contact is two years in prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Aug. 13, 2013, James Edward Hall, age 75, of Eldridge, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Judge John A. Jarvey to 15 years in prison for production of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Judge Jarvey also sentenced Hall to a life term of supervised release.
