News from December 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Hector Daniel Villanueva-Cortes, a/k/a “Muertito," age 23, a Honduran national residing in Hyattsville, Maryland, today to 18 months in prison, followed by one year of supervised release, for illegal re-entry after having been deported from the United States. Judge Titus enhanced Villanueva-Cortes’ sentence upon finding that he was a member of the Mara Salvatruchas gang, commonly known as MS-13.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: Michael Steinberg Earned $1.9 Million In Illegal Profits For His Hedge Fund Through Trading In Dell And NVIDIA.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: BISMARCK- U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Dec. 18, 2013, Danny DeLong, 29, Belcourt, N.D., was convicted by a federal jury on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Charles Craig Jordan, 34, has been ordered to federal prison for 13 years following his conviction related to his life settlement insurance business, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with acting special agent in charge Bernard Butler, Internal Revenue Service - Criminal investigation (IRS-CI) and Inspector in Charge Robert Wemyss, U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS).
By USDA Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on two produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Haverhill man was sentenced today for concealing a property he owned in Puerto Rico from his bankruptcy creditors.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Felix Cruz was sentenced in federal court in Pittsburgh for violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: The Defendant Allegedly Directed Clients To Pay Legal Fees In Cash, Some Of Which Was Stashed In A Safe Deposit Box, And By Wiring Money To Pay His Personal Credit Card Bills.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: BURLINGTON, Vt. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, and the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Vermont announced that on Monday, Dec. 16, 2013, Ramell Holder, 36, of Burlington, Vermont, was sentenced to 168 months, or fourteen years, in prison by the Honorable William K. Sessions III.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. DAYTON, OHIO- Jerald Richard Alm, 29, formerly of Crystal Falls, Michigan, was sentenced in United States District Court here today to a year in prison for...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New Jersey doctor admitted today to accepting bribes in exchange for test referrals as part of a long-running scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, N.J., its president and numerous associates, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Elmora, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to two years probation on her conviction of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Steve Wysocki, 50, of Newark, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci to four counts of filing a filing a false statement with the United States Government. Each count carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: ATLANTA - Devon Campbell, a/k/a Wilmott Alvin Livingston, a former Jamaican police officer who illegally entered the United States and has since become a U.S. citizen and a College Park police officer, has been arraigned on charges relating to false statements he made on his applications to obtain U.S. citizenship and a passport, and other related crimes.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement following the sentencing hearing of John C. Beale, former senior official within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Air and Radiation, who pled guilty on Sept. 27, 2013 to government theft in the amount of $886,186 and agreed to a criminal forfeiture of $507,207, for his fraudulent conduct from 2000 to 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: Dear Chairwoman Ramirez: According to the National Youth Tobacco Survey, 1.8 million middle and high school students said they tried electronic cigarettes or “e-cigarettes" in 2012, and the percentage of high school students who had tried them more than doubled from the prior year. This high usage rate...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: LONDON, KY - A Manchester pharmacy owner and his wife will forfeit their home, more than a million dollars and six cars that were proceeds or purchased with proceeds from a drug conspiracy in which the pharmacy owner filled prescriptions for customers without a legitimate medical purpose.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Thomas J. Blajszczak, 43, of Lancaster, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara, to unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of a firearm. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: ATLANTA - Jae Jun Bae has been indicted by a federal grand jury for wire fraud and bribery.
