News from December 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Brooklyn, N.Y., man admitted today to participating in three armed robberies of electronics stores, including two armed robberies in Woodbridge, N.J., and Linden, N.J., U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: Late WV State Police members Corporal Marshall Bailey and Trooper Eric Workman played pivotal role in building case against longtime Clay meth supplier.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 13, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement on the U.S. Entity’s final recommendation to the U.S. State Department regarding modifications to the Columbia River Treaty.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Matthew Davies, 35, of Stockton, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to five years in prison and a $100,000 fine for offenses involving the cultivation and sale of marijuana via dispensaries in Sacramento and Stockton, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and DEA Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick announced. Davies was ordered to surrender on March 3, 2014, to begin serving his sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: A Wichita man has been charged in federal court with attempting to explode a car bomb at Wichita Mid Continent Airport, John Carlin, Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security and U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom announced today. The defendant was arrested as part of an FBI undercover investigation, and the device used by the defendant was, in fact, inert and at no time posed a danger to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced the retirement of Assistant U.S. Attorneys Josette L. Cassiere and Robert A. “Bob" Thrall, who served in the Western District of Louisiana with more than 45 years of combined experience. Cassiere and Thrall were honored on Nov. 21, 2013, at a retirement ceremony held at the U.S. Courthouse in Shreveport. Their last day with the office was Nov. 30, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An alien found in Pittsburgh, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to nine months incarceration on his conviction of illegal re-entry after deportation, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ALICIA HOLMES was sentenced today in White Plains federal court by United States District Judge Kenneth M. Karas to six years in prison for defrauding individuals and businesses of hundreds of thousands of...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - MITRE, a second contractor working on the HealthCare.gov website, has rejected illegal requests from the Department of Health and Human Services to withhold documents subpoenaed by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. MITRE’s President and CEO Alfred Grasso, in a letter sent to the Committee today, stated...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent a letter to Committee Chairman Darrell Issa requesting that he abandon the unnecessary and confrontational subpoena he issued to government contractor MITRE Corporation demanding...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas physician has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that he unlawfully prescribed large quantities of Oxycodone and other highly addictive prescription drugs, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: John Adams, America’s first Vice President - and second President - and whose bust sits right above us looking over the Senate every day, once said, “Facts are stubborn things. And whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.".
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Charmetra Urssery was sentenced on Dec. 11, 2013, to 34 months in prison, and ordered to pay restitution of $196,766 for conspiring to file false tax returns, United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Joseph H. Hogsett, the United States Attorney, announced today the sentencing of James I. Bowling, age 41, of Manilla, to 27 months (2 years, 3 months) in federal prison. This follows a September 2013 jury trial, at which Bowling was found guilty of providing false information when purchasing a firearm and of receiving a firearm while under indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Timber Lake, South Dakota, man convicted of Uttering Counterfeit Obligations of the United States, was sentenced on Dec. 12, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that following a four-day trial, a federal jury yesterday found Viviana Reyes (40) guilty of conspiracy to commit credit card fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, credit card fraud, bank fraud, aggravated identity theft, and identity...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The owner of Bluegrass Women’s Healthcare, located in Elizabethtown, Kentucky was sentenced yesterday, in United States District Court, by United States District Judge John G. Heyburn, to one year probation for a single charge of misbranding, and the corporation, Bluegrass Women’s Healthcare...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that RICHARD AMMAR CHICHAKLI, an associate of international arms dealer Viktor Bout, was found guilty today, by a jury in Manhattan federal court, of conspiring with Bout and others to violate the International...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Michael L. Connor released the Santa Ana River Watershed Basin Study, which addresses water supply and demand projections for the next 50 years and identifies potential climate change impacts to Southern California's Santa Ana River Watershed. This study...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - In the first case filed in relation to the second major investigation into the illegal recruitment of “Skid Row" denizens for unnecessary medical procedures, a La Mirada doctor pleaded guilty this afternoon to federal tax charges and admitted participating in a large-scale scheme to defraud Medicare and Medi-Cal.
