News from August 2013
By DOL Newswire | Aug 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-In case you missed it, PBS’ NewsHour program last night reported on an investigation issued by Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) showing that the civil rights promises of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) are not being met for many...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2013
News Release: KEISHANDRA HOUSTON, age 36, of Slidell, Louisiana, was sentenced today by U. S. District Court Judge Carl J. Barbier, to one year of probation for committing wire fraud relating to an application for financial assistance in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, announced U. S. Attorney Dana Boente. HOUSTON was also ordered to pay BP America restitution in the amount of $5,900.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee today wrote to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn regarding a provision in the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (RSIA) that requires the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2013
News Release: Lebanon County Man Pleads Guilty To Stealing $60,000 From Credit Union.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2013
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today charging Fillmore residents Ruben Avila-Angulo, 40, and Antonio Barocio-Valencia, 60, with conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JONATHAN WALLY, a Police Officer with the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), pled guilty today in Manhattan federal to tax fraud and identity theft offenses related to his preparation and filing of false and fraudulent U.S. individual income tax returns (“tax returns") on behalf of himself and others. WALLY pled guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2013
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, Stephen Vogt, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Baltimore Division, and Nathaniel McQueen, Jr., Colonel, Delaware State Police, announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Delaware...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - Three Chicago area men were sentenced to lengthy federal prison terms after being convicted in three separate cases of federal firearms charges. Each case demonstrates the constant efforts of federal agencies - in these three instances, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives - working together with the Chicago Police Department, to investigate and prosecute firearms-related crimes throughout the city.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2013
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Diana Shipping Services S.A., a Panamanian corporation, Ioannis Prokakis, 61, and Antonios Boumpoutelos, 56, both citizens of Greece, were convicted today after a twelve-day bench trial on charges related to the illegal discharge of waste oil and oil-contaminated waste water from the M/V Thetis, a cargo vessel operated by Diana Shipping Services.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of New Jersey. Thursday, August 8, 2013. TRENTON, N.J. - An Ocean County, N.J. man, was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for possessing more than 600 images of child sexual abuse and using his computer to send and store them, U.S. Attorney Paul...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington today sentenced John D. Stanton, III (64, Tampa) to 10 years in federal prison for attempting to interfere with the Internal Revenue laws and failing to file income tax returns. The court also ordered Stanton to pay restitution to the Internal Revenue Service in the amount of $37,816,875.00. Stanton was found guilty on Dec. 17, 2012 by a federal jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Quindell Ryeshawn Gardner, age 22, of Baltimore, Maryland pleaded guilty today to a commercial robbery conspiracy and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. On August 5, 2013, co-conspirator Tavon McPhaul, also age 22, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty to the same charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that following a three-day trial before U.S. District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner, an Emporium, Pennsylvania man was convicted late Wednesday on charges of carjacking, brandishing a gun during a crime of violence and receiving a stolen firearm stemming from an armed carjacking.
By State Newswire | Aug 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the statement below regarding today’s visit to Washington, D.C. by Greek Prime Minister Samaras:
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Thursday, August 8, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. DAYTON - Kevin Dwayne Todd, 42, of Ludlow Falls, Ohio was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 300 months in prison for producing sexually explicit videos of pre-pubescent...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Carl Anthony Goodwin, 28, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by indictment in several robberies in Philadelphia, one of which was committed while he was a resident of a halfway house, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Goodwin is charged with five robberies, one attempted robbery, and escape from the residential reentry center.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on August 8, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Keith Strong, the following individuals were arraigned.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury yesterday found Alexis Antoine Davis, a/k/a "Big Mike," (32, Polk County) guilty of three counts of being a felon in possession of firearms. Davis faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. His sentencing hearing will be scheduled at a later date. Davis was indicted on January 8, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2013
News Release: CLARISSA O. MORGAN, age 27, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty today in federal court before U. S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier, to a one-count indictment charging her with mail fraud, announced U. S. Attorney Dana Boente.
