News from August 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania has been sentenced in federal court to 145 months in jail, 15 years supervised release and ordered to make $5,000 in restitution on his conviction of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man has been indicted for Dealing in Counterfeit Securities and Possession of Counterfeit Securities, and a Chicago, Illinois, man was indicted for Possession of Counterfeit Securities.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: TYRONNE STEVENSON and MARK GLENN, both 25 years old and both from New Orleans, pled guilty yesterday in federal court before U.S. District Judge Stanwood R. Duval, Jr., to various federal violations resulting from their association and participation in a violent drug gang operating in the Hollygrove area of the city. The boundaries of the area include South Carrollton Avenue, Earhart Boulevard, Interstate 10, and the Jefferson Parish line.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: A pair of experimental atomic clocks based on ytterbium atoms at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has set a new record for stability. The clocks act like 21st-century pendulums or metronomes that could swing back and forth with perfect timing for a period comparable to the age of the universe.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: MALVIN BERGERON, age 63, a resident of Jefferson Parish, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle, to four years of probation for embezzling assets of a local labor union, announced U.S. Attorney Dana Boente. The Court also ordered BERGERON to pay restitution in the amount of $4,041.99 as well as a $3,000.00 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: An Akron woman was convicted of tax crimes for failing to report more than $200,000 in income, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: WALTER CONLEY, age 25 and a resident of New Orleans, pled guilty today in federal court before U.S. District Judge Stanwood R. Duval, Jr., to various federal violations stemming from a 34-count indictment which charged CONLEY and several of his associates with participating in a violent drug gang that operated in the Hollygrove area of the City of New Orleans.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve Superintendent Susan L. Boudreau announced today that the 13-knot vessel speed limit at the mouth of Glacier Bay will be lifted due to a decrease in the number of humpback whales in the area. This change goes into effect at 5AM Friday August 23. Whale waters in lower Glacier Bay and Whidbey Passage remain unchanged.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Cayleb Louis Young, age 23, and Kenneth Morales-Scott, Jr., age 24, both of Rapid City, South Dakota, were sentenced on August 19 and 20, 2013, respectively, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange, for Possession with Intent to Distribute Marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. Antonio Weathers, 42, of Cincinnati, Ohio was sentenced in Cincinnati today to 17 months in prison for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme involving several...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: CHANEL M. MCGINNIS, age 28, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced today in federal court by U.S. District Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown to one year probation for embezzlement of mail matter by a postal employee, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente. McGINNIS was also ordered to pay $500 in restitution to the victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: MOBILE, Ala. - Albert Emil Tillman, 34, was sentenced today in federal court for his participation in a scheme to manufacture methamphetamine and being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Tillman pled guilty to the charges in March of 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: NEWNAN, Ga. - Hitendrafumar Patel has been sentenced to over two years in prison for hiring an undercover officer to burn his dry cleaning business.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: 51 Defendants Convicted and Sentenced Since June 2011 OCDETF Takedown.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Brooklyn, N.Y., man today admitted his involvement in a plot to burglarize a pharmacy in Englishtown, N.J., and sell stolen narcotics for cash, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that LOUIS MCINTOSH, 32, was convicted today of 11 robbery and firearms counts after a nine-day trial before United States District Judge Sidney H. Stein in Manhattan federal court.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture is requesting comments on proposed revisions to three standards: U.S. Standards for Grades of Creole Onions, U.S. Standards for Grades of Bermuda-Granex-Grano Type Onions, and U.S. Standards for Grades of Onions (Other Than Bermuda-Granex-Grano and Creole Type).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal jury returned guilty verdicts Wednesday against a Scranton man on all five charges related to his participation in a murder-for-hire scheme after a three-day trial in Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo’s courtroom in Wilkes-Barre.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Mark Anthony Brown, 53, an inmate at the Idaho Correctional Center in Orofino, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to two counts of mail fraud, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Brown was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boise on March 12, 2013.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s proposal to address rising college costs...
