News from August 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. COLUMBUS - Jason C. Grossman, 31, of Westerville, Ohio pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of receipt of child pornography, a crime punishable...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: Harrison R. Crandall was the first official Grand Teton National Park photographer and served as a resident artist from the 1920s until the 1960s. Professor and author Kenneth A. Barrick will provide insight into Crandall's art and tenure as park photographer during a public event on Thursday, September...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: A brief travel closure on the unpaved section of the Moose-Wilson Road in Grand Teton National Park will be in place for about 28 hours, beginning 4 a.m. Wednesday, September 4. Barring rainy weather or equipment malfunction, the road is scheduled to reopen by 8 a.m. September 5. The temporary closure is scheduled to accommodate dust abatement work.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: Robert Arthur Reed, aka Ben Stauffer, aka Ben Staupher, aka Ben Stopher, aka Eric Roth, aka Walt Anderson, 58, of Morgan, Utah, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on Aug. 27, 2013, for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and conspiracy to launder money. Reed was arrested...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Otha Easley, Acting Special Agent in Charge, NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement, Southeast Division, and Major Camille Soverel, Regional Commander, South A Region, Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC)...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced Mario - Carmon, 33, of Greenville, North Carolina, to 100 months imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Western District of Louisiana. Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Larry Robert Baker, 50, of Maud, Texas, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Tom Stagg to possessing a firearm after...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO ― A suburban attorney whose law license was suspended in May was arrested today on federal fraud charges for allegedly misappropriating approximately $2.34 million from a couple who were her clients. The defendant, KATHLEEN NIEW, was charged with 10 counts of wire fraud in a federal grand jury indictment that was returned on Tuesday and unsealed today following her arrest. FBI agents took Niew into custody without incident at her office in Oak Brook.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: AUG 29 - (NEW HAVEN, Conn.) - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Mark Fuller, 50, of New Haven, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 90 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 53-year-old Excelsior coin dealer was sentenced for devising and executing a scheme to defraud customers and investors out of more than $3.3 million. United States District Judge Patrick J. Schiltz sentenced David Laurence Marion to 60 months in prison on one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and one count of money laundering. Marion was indicted on Nov. 14, 2012, and pleaded guilty on Feb. 21, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Berlin man was charged today with conspiring to distribute more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana, as well as money laundering and tax evasion.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: Camp, Baucus Hightlight How Tax Reform Can Spark Innovation at Stop in Silicon Valley.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Yesterday in federal court in Duluth, a 44-year-old Red Lake man was sentenced for causing serious bodily injury to a woman after assaulting her while on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. On Aug. 28, 2013, United States District Judge Richard H. Kyle sentenced Roderick Arlyn Sayers to 43 months in prison on one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Sayers was indicted on November 5, 2012, and convicted on April 16, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MIGUEL ORTIZ, 48, of Hartford, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 37 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing firearms and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 33-year-old Eveleth woman made her initial appearance after being indicted for stealing more than $27,000 in Social Security benefits. On Aug. 13, 2013, Kimberly Joann Wauzynski was charged with one count of theft of public money and one count of supplemental security income (“SSI") benefits fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jayleen Armijo, 30, a member and resident of Santa Ana Pueblo, pleaded guilty this morning to a federal assault charge. Armijo entered her guilty plea without the benefit of a plea agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Geoff Billips, 36, of Bluff City, Tenn., was sentenced on Aug. 28, 2013, to serve 104 months in prison, by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge. Upon his release from prison, Billips will be subject to probation under the supervision of the U.S. Probation Office for five years.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - In a letter sent to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., M.D. (R-LA) asked that GAO assess how the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) examines tax-exempt organizations. Following revelations that the IRS was subjecting...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., announced today that Davon Washington, 30, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of possessing an illegal firearm after having been previously convicted of three prior violent felonies, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer to 15 years in prison. Judge Larimer, who found that Washington was an Armed Career Offender under federal law, also placed Washington on five years of post-release supervision.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of the Obama Administration’s all-of-the-above strategy to deploy every available source of American energy, the Energy Department today announced $16 million for seventeen projects to help sustainably and efficiently capture energy from waves, tides and currents. Together, these...
