News from August 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas woman, Estela Martinez, 53, appeared in federal court yesterday afternoon, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney, and pleaded guilty to one count of making a false statement, under penalty of perjury, related to bankruptcy filings. Martinez faces a maximum statutory penalty...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Stanberry, Mo., man who produced child pornography and possessed more than a thousand images of child pornography was sentenced in federal court today. Jeffrey Dale...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: David Mermelstein, 53, of Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, was charged today by Indictment with five counts of illegal removal of asbestos, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that from in or about September, 2009 through in or about April, 2010, Mermelstein hired day...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: ATLANTA - Cordell Fleming pleaded guilty today in federal court to extorting money from individuals due Social Security benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty today to charges stemming from his participation in a scheme to hack into computer networks and sell access to those networks.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, charging a Nigerian citizen with providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (“AQAP"), and using high-powered firearms in furtherance of that crime. The United States is currently seeking the extradition of the defendant, Lawal Olaniyi Babafemi, also known as “Abdullah" and “Ayatollah Mustapha," from Nigeria.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: Roommate Shot And Killed By Armed Intruders, Leading To Discovery Of Drugs And Guns.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: ABILENE, Texas - A dentist who practiced pediatric dentistry at Kool Smiles in Abilene, Texas, has admitted that he made false and fraudulent statements and entries on patient records, which caused Medicaid to be billed for, and pay, at least $120,000 for services falsely claimed to have been performed, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: Two men who conspired to distribute methamphetamine pled guilty July 23, 2013, and Aug. 26, 2013, in federal court in Sioux City.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Keith Jermaine Everett, 34, of Norfolk, Virginia, was sentenced today to 188 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - William Joseph Stuart, age 52, of Bealton, Va., the former President of the Remington Volunteer Fire Department, pleaded guilty today to one charge of theft from a program receiving federal funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Wan Qin Lu, of Cheektowaga, N.Y., pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny, to harboring illegal aliens for commercial advantage and private financial gain. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: DALLAS --- Quincy Lamar Poole, 24, appeared today in federal court in Dallas, before U.S. Magistrate Judge David L. Horan, and pleaded guilty to one count of transporting and shipping child pornography. He faces a statutory penalty of not less than five or more than 20 years in federal prison, a $250,000...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Rodriguez Brown, 37, of Niagara Falls, N.Y., who was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm and witness tampering while on court supervision, was sentenced to 33 months in prison by U.S. District Chief Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte sentenced Daniel Ofei, age 39, of Bowie, Maryland, today to 37 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme involving losses of at least $5 million. Judge Messitte also entered an order that Ofei pay restitution of $5,950,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 51-year-old Fruitvale, Texas man has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: ATLANTA - Kevin Patrick Loughery, co-founder of the former Atlanta-area startup, Geometrix, has been sentenced for defrauding Geometrix’s investors by using approximately $835,000 in the investors’ funds for himself.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 37-year-old Wills Point, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: On Aug. 26, 2013, Jervares D. Davis, a 24-year old Norman, Oklahoma, man pled guilty in federal district court, in East St. Louis, to unlawful possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
