News from December 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2013
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the arrest and unsealing of an indictment charging former Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO) Corrections Officer Leon Perry Brooks, Sr. (39, Jacksonville) with two counts of receipt of child pornography, one count of...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Holabird, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Wire Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - United States Attorney Pamela C. March announced the sentencing of four defendants by United States District Judge Richard Smoak today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
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By USDA Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: Washington - U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has appointed four members and four alternates to the National Honey Board. Each representative will serve a three-year term of office beginning Jan. 1, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: In El Paso today, former Socorro Independent School District Trustee Guillermo “Willie" Gandara, Sr., was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for using his influence with the school board to secure and retain lucrative health services contracts for ACCESS Health Source announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: Project Ceasefire. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm. Dennis T. Hart, 55, of Kansas City, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, Dec. 19, 2013 - The U.S. Forest Service will waive fees at most of its day-use recreation sites on Jan. 20, 2014, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The fee waiver day is the first of four such days and one full weekend offered by the agency during 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: Cardiologist Dr. Elie H. Korban will pay $1.15 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that he billed Medicare and Medicaid for medically unnecessary cardiac stent placements, the Justice Department announced today. Korban owns Delta Clinic, with offices in Jackson, Tenn., and Lexington, Tenn., and has privileges at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital and Regional Hospital of Jackson, both in Jackson, Tenn.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: Zhifei Li, the owner of an antique business in China, pleaded guilty today to being the organizer of an illegal wildlife smuggling conspiracy in which 30 rhinoceros horns and numerous objects made from rhino horn and elephant ivory worth more than $4.5 million were smuggled from the United States to China.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that Chesapeake Appalachia LLC, a subsidiary of Chesapeake Energy, the nation’s second largest natural gas producer, will spend an EPA-estimated $6.5 million to restore 27 sites damaged by unauthorized discharges ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: The owner of a Miami home health care company was sentenced to serve 235 months in prison today for her participation in a $7 million health care fraud scheme involving defunct home health care company Anna Nursing Services Corp.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: A woman from Trinidad and Tobago was sentenced today to serve 20 years in prison for her role in the 2005 kidnapping of naturalized U.S. citizen Balram “Balo” Maharaj, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Special Agent in Charge Michael B. Steinbach of the FBI’s Miami Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: Terrance Anderson, aka Scooby, has been sentenced to federal prison on charges of sex trafficking of a minor and two counts of transporting adults in interstate commerce for prostitution. Anderson, 42, of Ellenwood, Ga., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Thomas W. Thrash to serve 25 years in prison ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: A Canadian man was arrested today in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, on an extradition warrant requested by the United States for money laundering crimes related to the illegal importation and illegal trafficking of narwhal tusks, announced Robert G. Dreher, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: Today President Barack Obama granted clemency to 21 individuals, consisting of eight commutations and 13 pardons.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: Siarhei Baltutski, aka Sergey Boltutskiy, 41, of Minsk, Belarus, was sentenced today to serve 180 months in prison for conspiracy to violate the Arms Export Control Act, conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that developer Douglas Pauley and entities affiliated with him have agreed to pay $110,000 and make all retrofits required to remove accessibility barriers at 30 apartment complexes, involving more than 750 units, in West Virginia that were developed through the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that Fort Davis State Bank, based in Fort Davis, Texas, will implement uniform pricing policies, conduct employee training and pay $159,000 as part of a settlement to resolve allegations that it engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination on the basis of national origin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that the United States and a coalition of mental health advocacy organizations have entered into a comprehensive settlement agreement with the state of New Hampshire that will transform New Hampshire’s mental health system by significantly expanding and enhancing mental health service capacity in integrated community settings.
