News from August 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN - Joel Thomas Smith, 24, of Baraga, Michigan, was sentenced to 71 months in federal prison for assault resulting in serious bodily injury and sexual abuse of a minor, U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. announced today. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge R. Allan...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Masai Skief, 32, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to an information charging him with two counts of wire fraud, arising from the abuse of his leadership positions at a Philadelphia charter school, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Skief was the chief...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i - James Courtright is the new Fire Management Officer (FMO) at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, and will oversee fire management for 11 national parks in the Pacific Island Park network.
By State Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: Dear President Kiir: We write to express our deep concern with the deterioration of human rights conditions in the Republic of South Sudan. As you know, the United States Congress has long supported the people of South Sudan in their struggle against the oppressive regime in Khartoum. As strong supporters...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that two Hacienda Heights, California, residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: Seven Ohio oncologists were charged with importing cancer medications that had not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced that today a federal grand jury indicted Kyle T. Collins, age 35, of Milwaukee, on one count of Retaliation Against a Federal Witness. If convicted of the charge, Collins faces a maximum penalty of life in prison without parole.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: GAINESVILLE, Ga. - David Alan Wolf has been sentenced to 14 years for enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: TAMPA, FLORIDA - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury yesterday found Do Nguyen (39, Bradenton) guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 100 or more marijuana plants. Nguyen faces a maximum penalty of 40 years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing will be scheduled at a later date. Nguyen was indicted on November 6, 2012.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Building on President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, which calls for steady, responsible steps to reduce carbon pollution, the Energy Department today broke ground on the nation’s largest federally-owned wind project at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas. Once completed, this five-turbine...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HENRY J. PAPALE, 62, of Southington, pleaded guilty today before Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to federal wire fraud and money laundering offenses stemming from a mortgage fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: Cornish, NH and Woodstock, VT - On August 24 and 25 at 2:00 pm, the National Parks of Vermont and New Hampshire will be hosting centennial performances of the play Sanctuary: A Bird Masque, a play about bird protection.Sanctuary was first performed at the opening of the Meridan Bird Sanctuary in Meridan...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge Charlene Honeywell today sentenced Gurudeo "Buddy" Persaud (47, Orlando) to three years in federal prison for mail fraud. As part of his sentence, the court also ordered Persaud to pay $948,340.00 in restitution to the victims of his scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael J. De Palma, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announce that defendant Carlos Rodriguez, 40, of Miami Lakes, was charged in a 19 count indictment with structuring...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that nine men have been arrested and federally indicted as a result of a sex trafficking undercover operation conducted during the 2013 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, which ended August 11. All nine men were indicted for Commercial Sex Trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - The chief executive of Vida Life International Ltd., a public company that traded on the over-the-counter securities market, was sentenced yesterday to 30 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit securities fraud, wire fraud and mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Yesterday in federal court in Fergus Falls, a 32-year-old Minneapolis man was sentenced for committing aggravated sexual abuse against a child. On Aug. 12, 2013, United States District Judge John R. Tunheim sentenced Joseph Valerian Parshall to 360 months in prison on two counts of aggravated sexual abuse against a child under the age of 12. Parshall was indicted on Sept. 21, 2011, and was convicted on February 7, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - JACK RUSSELL OWENS, 62, of Midwest City, Oklahoma, was sentenced by United States Chief District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange to serve 324 months in federal prison for producing child pornography, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A Detroit man pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to access device fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: Defendants, Arrested Across 5 States And In Canada, Created Shell Companies, Sent Out Fake Press Releases And Impersonated IRS Employees.
