News from December 2013
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - The Aviation Subcommittee, chaired by U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ), will examine the state of American aviation during a Congressional hearing on Thursday. The Subcommittee will receive testimony on the economic health of American aviation, including impediments to growth, as well as issues or policy areas that should be considered in the next Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Mikhnail DelRosario, a/k/a Mickey, age 28, of Silver Spring, Maryland, today to 11 years in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for conspiring to distribute more than 700 kilograms of marijuana and conspiring to commit money laundering. Chief Judge Chasanow also ordered that DelRosario forfeit $1 million, believed to be the proceeds of the drug and money laundering conspiracies.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - In response to the Treasury Department’s announcement that it has sold its remaining shares of common stock in General Motors (GM), House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita maintenance technician has pleaded guilty to making more than $150,000 from selling equipment he stole from the companies where he worked, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: An East St. Louis, Illinois, man was sentenced to a prison term in federal district court upon revocation of supervised release and for distribution of heroin on December 6, 2013, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that a Waynesboro, PA chiropractor has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a bogus automobile accident personal injury claim.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Tina Holley, 36, of Rochester, NY, who previously plead guilty to conspiracy to possess crack cocaine with the intent to distribute it and possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking crimes, was sentenced to seven ...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., December 9, 2013 - The House Natural Resources Committee held a Full Committee oversight field hearing today in Pasco, WA on “The Future of the US-Canada Columbia River Treaty - Building on 60 years of Coordinated Power Generation and Flood Control.".
By USDA Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: Ordered to Pay $75,594 in Restitution for Misappropriating Controlled Substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell today sentenced James Olivos (47, Lake Mary) to 5 years in federal prison for bank fraud and money laundering. As part of his sentence, the court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $2,866,121.39, the proceeds of the fraud scheme. Olivos pleaded guilty on Sept. 18, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Ten individuals have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of drug trafficking within 1,000 feet of schools in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District, United States Attorney Melinda Haag and DEA Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: LEXINGTON, KY - Timothy Alexander Conley, the Morgan County Judge Executive, has been charged with soliciting and accepting kickbacks from a Salyersville, KY., based bridge contractor, in exchange for contract awards, according to a federal indictment unsealed today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Skinner “Skip" Anderson, II, 57, of Boise, Idaho, pleaded guilty today to one count of misprision of a felony, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Anderson appeared today before Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Candy W. Dale at the federal courthouse in Boise.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Jose Joaquin Morales, age 37, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to life in prison for using a cell phone to arrange the murder-for-hire of Robert Long, who was a cooperating witness in a case pending against Morales in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. Morales is currently serving two consecutive 262 month sentences for drug convictions in Maryland and Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Tina Holley, 36, of Rochester, NY, who previously plead guilty to conspiracy to possess crack cocaine with the intent to distribute it and possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking crimes, was sentenced to seven...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: After nearly 37 years with the National Park Service (NPS), Park Ranger Warren Wrenn will retire on Dec. 27, 2013.Wrenn has held a variety of positions within the Outer Banks Group of national parks, which includes Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, and Wright Brothers National Memorial.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: Jackson, TN - Justin Shawn Baker, 25, of Jackson, TN, pleaded guilty today to violating the civil rights of students and faculty of the Margolin Hebrew Academy by defacing a Torah and religious prayer books, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, Freddy Mauricio Tellez-Buitrago and Adriana Gonzalez-Marquez pled guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Cheryl M. Pollak at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, to obstruction of justice for stealing selling sensitive and confidential United States law enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO ― The United States has intervened in a civil lawsuit against Californiabased IPC The Hospitalist Company, Inc., and its subsidiaries (IPC), alleging that IPC submitted false claims to federal health care programs, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Justice Department announced today. The lawsuit...
