News from December 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An alien found in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to time served on his conviction of illegal re-entry after deportation, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2013
News Release: An Indictment Is A Formal Accusation Of Criminal Conduct, Not Evidence. Defendants Are Presumed Innocent Unless And Until Convicted Through Due Process Of Law.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Pennsylvania woman was indicted by a federal grand jury today for her role in a long-running, large-scale scheme involving the fraudulent sale of telecommunications equipment belonging to a company she worked for as a consultant, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2013
News Release: Lawsuit Follows Determination By Department Of Housing And Urban Development That Co-Op Engaged In Discrimination On The Basis Of Disability.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that the leader of a drug conspiracy involving seven defendants was sentenced to 16 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2013
News Release: In El Paso, 33-year-old Thomas Daly, a former machine operator for a local food producer, was sentenced to 188 months in federal prison followed by ten years of supervised release for downloading child pornography announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Dennis Ulrich, El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2013
News Release: In Del Rio, 52-year-old Salvador Castillon, owner of South Texas Concrete based in Eagle Pass, pleaded guilty to paying bribes to a Maverick County commissioner in order to secure county construction contracts announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 5, 2013
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 111,000 metric tons of soybeans to China during the 2014/2015 marketing year.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) made the following opening statement at the Steering and Policy Committee hearing this morning on the urgent need to extend unemployment insurance. The hearing came just hours after the White House Council of Economic Advisers released...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2013
News Release: Anthony Praino, 51, of Columbia, Tennessee, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to interstate transportation of stolen property and filing a false tax return, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. The charges stemmed from a joint investigation conducted...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Carthage, Mo., apartment manager was sentenced in federal court today for a nearly $400,000 fraud scheme involving several apartment complexes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2013
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La.-United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Juan Betancourt-Duran, 30, of Mexico, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Patricia Minaldi, to 12 months in prison for transporting illegal aliens. Betancourt-Duran will be deported after completion of his sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2013
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Larry Robert Baker, 50, of Maud, Texas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Donald E. Walter to 30 months in prison and three years of supervised release for possessing a firearm after being convicted and serving time for a murder and other felonies in Texas. He pleaded guilty Aug. 29, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2013
News Release: A Coshocton pharmacist was sentenced to more than four years in prison and ordered to pay more than $2.1 million in restitution related to health care fraud, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2013
News Release: Daniel Hollifield (210) 825-0967. Notice of Availability of the Environmental Assessment to Enhance Visitor Services and Rehabilitate the Cultural Landscape at Rancho de las Cabras. The National Park Service (NPS) has released an Environmental Assessment (EA) analyzing a proposal...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Noemi Vasquez, 39 years old, along with Raul Castro-Morales and Wilfredo Cheverria-Funez, all of Montgomery, Alabama, pled guilty in federal court on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013 to aggravated identity theft, illegal production of an identification card, and counterfeiting a social security card, announced U.S. Attorney George L. Beck, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2013
News Release: POCATELLO - Isidoro David Herrera, 32, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, was sentenced in United States District Court today to 100 months in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute in excess of 50 grams of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Brian Ted...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 5, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced that Seed Incorporated, Memphis, Tenn., has paid $350 to settle an alleged violation of the Federal Seed Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2013
News Release: Quang Vu Nguyen, 30, of San Jose, California, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on Dec. 3, 2013, for conspiracy to possess with intent to manufacture 36.3 kilograms of marijuana. Nguyen was arrested in San Jose, California. He received 30 months imprisonment, to be followed...
By State Newswire | Dec 5, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on the death of Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first democratically elected president...
