News from December 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that IONUT-IULIAN VLAD, 29, a citizen of Romania, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Yesterday afternoon, Vincent Thomas Montoya, 30, of Farmington, N.M., was sentenced to a 24-month term of imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Makushamari Gozo, age 41, a native of Zimbabwe residing in Baltimore, Maryland, to 11 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for filing claims for more than $23 million in fraudulent alternative fuel tax credits...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Robert Lopez, 27, of Roswell, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning in Las Cruces federal court to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Lopez entered his guilty plea without the benefit of a plea agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced today that Roger Burke, 31, of New York, New York, was sentenced yesterday by Judge D. Brock Hornby in U.S. District Court in Portland to 151 months in prison for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin. Burke pled guilty to the charges in August 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced today for his role in an armed robbery of a Metro PCS store in Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: EVANSVILLE - Joseph H. Hogsett, the United States Attorney, announced today that Gregory P. Stodghill, age 46, of Vincennes, has been convicted and sentenced by U.S. District Chief Judge Richard L. Young to 60 months (5 years, the statutory maximum) in federal prison after admitting that he engaged in tax evasion that cost taxpayers more than $407,000. He was remanded into custody immediately.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: Also Ordered to Pay Approximately $630,000 in Fines and Forfeiture.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that two Kansas City, Mo., grocery store owners have been sentenced in federal court for their roles in a $151,000 food stamp fraud conspiracy.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: Dear Mr. Speaker: Earlier today, Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa posted on the Committee’s website a letter to Kathleen Sebelius, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, that included selected portions of Security Control Assessments (SCAs) conducted by the MITRE Corporation on the Healthcare.gov...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Ocean County, N.J., woman was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for concealing from a bankruptcy trustee profits she had made on a Ponzi scheme investment, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Harvard student was named today in a criminal complaint alleging that he was responsible for yesterday’s bomb threats at Harvard University.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA - Stephen Jeffrey Babb, 28, of Waynesboro, Georgia was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge J. Randal Hall to over 24 years in prison, followed by lifetime of supervised release, for distributing and receiving child pornography. He was also ordered to pay $6,000 in restitution to victims of this offense. Babb had pled guilty to the charges January 2013. Babb will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A resident of Florida and Ohio today admitted his role in defrauding a charter flight company and other merchants of hundreds of thousands of dollars in luxury goods and services, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: During 2013, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Republicans and ranking member U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), have been working to bring more transparency to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the rest of the Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man who pleaded guilty to possessing a.40 caliber pistol in furtherance of drug trafficking has been sentenced to federal prison, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Dae Cho, age 66, and her son Hyung Cho, age 40, both of Catonsville, Maryland, and citizens of Korea who are illegally present in the United States, pleaded guilty today to food stamp and wire fraud in connection with a scheme to illegally redeem food stamp benefits in exchange for cash.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Michael E. Horowitz, Inspector General for the Department of Justice, announced that former FBI Assistant Director...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: ROCKFORD - The former shipping manager for American Extrusion International (“AEI"), was indicted today on federal mail fraud charges. REVA K. VERA, 57, of Beloit, Wis. was charged with two counts of mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Dec. 12, 2013, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 26 defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin, crack, cocaine and marijuana, and firearms offenses announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, ...
