News from August 2013
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Michael L. Connor announced today that five entities in Colorado, Idaho and Oregon will receive a total of $485,423 to establish or expand watershed groups. The selected entities will use the funding to address water quality, ecosystem and endangered species issues.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO -ROBERT PALMER and MARK DRIVER were the owners and operators of Princeton Partnership, LLC which operated out of an office in the Hill area of St. Louis, Missouri. They are charged with allegedly defrauding numerous elderly Princeton customers, in an approximate amount of $3,000,000, beginning July 2004 and continuing through February 2010.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Former 404th State District Judge Abel Corral Limas has been ordered to prison following his conviction for racketeering, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Limas pleaded guilty March 31, 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated today that this week the two men convicted of conspiring to commit fraud in connection with the “Birth of Innocence" movie project were sentenced by Chief United States District Court Judge Christina Reiss, in Rutland. On August...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CRAIG B. HABER, a former partner of a global accounting firm, pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to stealing nearly $4 million in client payments intended for the firm. HABER pled guilty before U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel.
By State Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: New York - Ranking Member Eliot Engel, the senior Democratic member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement regarding reports that the Assad regime in Syria again used chemical weapons.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration today renewed its alliance with The Joint Commission to provide information and training resources that will help protect the safety and health of health care workers. Through the alliance, OSHA and TJC will address ways to reduce and prevent worker exposure to physical, chemical, biological and airborne hazards in health care and address emergency preparedness.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Robert Patrick Hoffman II, 40, of Virginia Beach, Va., was convicted today by a federal jury of attempting to provide classified information to individuals who he believed to be representatives of the Russian Federation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Thirty alleged members of two drug trafficking organizations that operated across Southern California have been indicted on federal narcotics charges following an investigation into the importation of cocaine and methamphetamine from Mexico into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: JAHVAR HOOKS, age 30, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen Wells Roby today after being charged by criminal complaint with making threatening telephone calls in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 844(e), announced U.S. Attorney Dana Boente.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative action under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against La Merced Produce LLC. The company, operating from Georgia, allegedly failed to make payment to 13 produce sellers in the amount of $4,351,483 from June 2008 through July 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Thomas Monroe Lee, 40, of Gadsden, Alabama, was sentenced today to serve 121 months in federal prison for using the Internet in an attempt to persuade, induce, and entice a minor to engage in sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DOMINCK PIETRANICO and JOSEPH SARCINELLA pled guilty to loansharking in connection with their roles in a scheme to exert control over the commercial waste-hauling industry in the greater New York City...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KEVIN DEAN BROWN, 43, a citizen of Jamaica last residing in Mount Vernon, N.Y., was sentenced today by United States District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to eight months of imprisonment for passport fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - A Oregon man who engaged in interstate sex-trafficking of two adult women and a teenage girl from the West Coast to the Midwest was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison. The defendant, ERIK SHAMSUD-DIN, 46, was sentenced after a hearing at which the minor victim, now 23, testified in U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Aug. 20, 2013, Calvin Carter, 31, of Atlanta, Ga., was sentenced to serve 106 months in prison, by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge. Upon his release from prison, Carter will be subject to supervised release under the supervision of the U.S. Probation Office for six years.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: WARREN STEWART, age 37, a resident of Terrytown, Louisiana, pleaded guilty as charged today before U.S. District Judge Stanwood R. Duval, Jr. to the unauthorized recording of a motion picture and criminal infringement of a copyright, announced U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that THOMAS J. TUREY, 64, of Norwalk, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 54 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for embezzling more than $3.4 million from his employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan has reached an agreement with Palace Sports and Entertainment, LLC, under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for extensive changes to improve physical accessibility and opportunities for people with disabilities at The Palace of Auburn...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District Pennsylvania announced that a federal grand jury in Harrisburg returned an indictment charging James O. Payne, age 32, of Harrisburg, with crack cocaine trafficking.
