News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Anthony Oluwole Ojo, 44, of Ontario, Canada, was sentenced yesterday to 45 months in prison for running a scam in which he pretended to be a relative of his victims and in need of help. Ojo, and/or others working with him, would telephone his victims, most of whom were elderly, from Canada...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - Larry Egan Boatwright, 57, of Germantown, TN was sentenced to 188 months in prison for illegally distributing narcotics, announced United States Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Robert E. O'Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced the extradition from Guatemala of Alma Lucrecia Hernandez-Preciado, a/k/a "La Tia," (40, Tecun Uman, Guatemala).
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - On Tuesday, Feb. 26, Grand Canyon National Park will celebrate the anniversary of its designation as a national park 94 years to the day after An Act to Establish the Grand Canyon National Park in the State of Arizona was signed into law.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Kristen M. Jasper, 28, a former background investigator for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management OPM), was sentenced today to six months of home detention and ordered to pay $109,000 in restitution for falsifying work on background investigations of federal employees and contractors, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Patrick E. McFarland, Inspector General for the Office of Personnel Management.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Marc A. Gersen, 31, a former law school student, was sentenced today to a four-year prison term for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine in the Washington, D.C. area, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: - Ordered to pay nearly $2.8 million in restitution to victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ARMEN KAZARIAN was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 37 months in prison for his involvement with the Mirzoyan-Terdjanian Organization, an Armenian-American organized crime enterprise engaged in a wide range of criminal activity. KAZARIAN pled guilty to racketeering conspiracy in July 2011, and was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to today’s announcement from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that it has finalized the Disparate Impact rule, which defines what constitutes housing discrimination under the Fair Housing Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Anthony Speight, Jr., 24, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to a 21-year prison term for the January 2011 slaying of a man following a robbery attempt in Northwest Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Luel Hayes, Jr., 43, was sentenced today to a total of 38 years of incarceration on charges stemming from a 2009 slaying in Northwest Washington and a sexual assault that took place about two months later, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Brandon Smothers, 17, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to eight years of incarceration for shooting a classmate last year in the parking lot of Coolidge High School, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: A man who posted a false statement on Facebook claiming a consumer product was contaminated pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of Feb. 11, 2013. Beginning on Tuesday, the committee will reconvene its business meeting to consider the oversight plan for the 113th Congress. In hearings, the committee will...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kearney, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to producing and possessing child pornography. Austin D. Hurtado, 19, of Kearney, pleaded guilty before U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Julio Cesar Revolorio Ramos, 29, of Adelphi, Md., was sentenced today to 188 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for sex trafficking a 15-year-old runaway as part of a multi-state conspiracy that prostituted hundreds of women and girls since at least 2008.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces the extradition from Guatemala of Alma Lucrecia Hernandez-Preciado, a/k/a "La Tia," (40, Tecun Uman, Guatemala). Extradition to Tampa was sought following the return of an indictment, on Sept. 22, 2011, charging Hernandez-Preciado...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces the return of an indictment charging Dr. John Francis Williams (66, Blythewood, S.C.) with attempting to entice a minor for sexual activity through use of the Internet. If convicted, Williams faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 10...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: On Thursday, February 14 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), will hold a hearing entitled “Sequestration: Examining Employers’ WARN Act Responsibilities." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that nine defendants were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with narcotics and firearms offenses.
