News from December 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on Dec. 18, 2013, Chief Judge Christina Reiss, of the United States District Court, sentenced Calvin Alexander, 31, of Rutland to nine years imprisonment for conspiring to distribute heroin and crack cocaine in the Rutland area. Alexander previously pled guilty to this offense and had agreed to a nine-year sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on Dec. 18, 2013, Chief Judge Christina Reiss, of the United States District Court, sentenced Calvin Alexander, 31, of Rutland to nine years imprisonment for conspiring to distribute heroin and crack cocaine in the Rutland area. Alexander previously pled guilty to this offense and had agreed to a nine-year sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that two men convicted by a Harrisburg jury of stealing over a hundred credit card numbers from over 25 banks and credit unions were sentenced Wednesday to federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota, woman convicted of Wire Fraud was sentenced on Dec. 16, 2013, by U.S. District Court Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today called for a national solution to systemic shortcomings in the management of the nation’s forests to address the economic and ecological needs of forests and communities across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Mohammed Abughaniyeh, age 29, of Laury’s Station, Pennsylvania, and Stacy Miller, age 25, of Whitehall, Pennsylvania, were indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg and charged with Uttering Counterfeit Obligations of the United States.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
Release: Recently, USDA announced that U.S. agricultural exports for fiscal year 2013 finished at another record level, continuing the strongest five-year period for such exports in our nation’s history. Much of this success is due to small businesses, which Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack noted are the backbone of the economy in rural communities, small towns and big cities.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - United States Attorney Pamela C. Marsh announced thatMichael Clifford Watson, 32, of Key West, Florida, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Robert Hinkle to serve 360 months in prison for drug conspiracy charges. Watson will serve an eight-year term of supervised release after his incarceration.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - JOSEPH VACCA, Former Deputy Commissioner of the St. Louis Parks Division, was sentenced to 36 months in prison on charges that he and Thomas Stritzel, Former Chief of the St. Louis Park Rangers, defrauded the City of St. Louis of approximately one-half million dollars by submitting false invoices purportedly for materials and services supplied to the Parks Division. He appeared before United States District Judge Jackson in St. Louis.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: Andrew Sweeney, 66, of Wayne, Pennsylvania, was charged today by indictment with theft from an employee retirement fund, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the indictment, Sweeney, the President of Sweeney Seed Company, failed to pay monies, withheld from employees’ paychecks...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: Defendant Brandon “Fresh" Solomon charged as part of Charleston’s West Side Drug Market Intervention initiative.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: KREMMLING - The Bureau of Land Management's Kremmling Field Office is seeking public comment regarding 19 commercial special recreation permit renewal applications for the Upper Colorado River corridor and uplands within Eagle, Grand, Jackson, Larimer and Summit counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA- Adrienne Eve Williams, 32, of Wexford, Illinois, pleaded guilty today in federal court to falsely personifying an officer or employee of the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: SALEM, MA- The National Park Service is announcing a temporary change to the winter hours of operation for the Salem Regional Visitor Center (2 New Liberty St.). The Visitor Center will now be open Wednesday through Sunday, 10am-5pm beginning on December 23rd, 2013 - and on select holidays including...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - United States Attorney Joseph H. Hogsett announced this afternoon the return of an indictment charging Reginald Walton, age 30, and Mark Harsley, age ##, with conspiring to defraud Indianapolis taxpayers with a wire fraud scheme involving a city mowing contract. This follows the indictment...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - United States Attorney Pamela C. Marsh announced today that Andrea Lorraine Avery, 47, of Los Angeles, California, pleaded guilty this afternoon on federal charges concerning a mortgage fraud and money laundering scheme. Avery is scheduled to be sentenced on March 20, 2014, before Senior United States District Judge Roger Vinson.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Billy Gene Jefferson, 52, of Richmond, Va., pleaded guilty today for his role in stealing over $12,000,000 from federal and state tax credit programs that are designed to promote the rehabilitation of historic buildings in the area.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has appointed nine members and their alternates to serve on the national U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council. Each representative will serve a three-year term of office beginning Jan.1, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
News Release: Jackson, TN - 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.
