News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Carl Joseph Coutard, 21, and Carliss Pereira, 22, both of Miami, Florida, and Christopher J. Wright, 22, of Fort Lauderdale, have been charged with conspiring to access the iRattler computer system at the Florida A&M University (FAMU) in order to divert financial aid monies to themselves. The indictment was announced today by Pamela C. Marsh, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced today that on Jan. 31, 2013, Charles W. Adams (age:46), formerly of Spencer, Indiana, was sentenced in federal district court to 120 months imprisonment - the maximum sentence - for the crime of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender. Chief Judge William C. Griesbach also ordered that Adams serve a lifetime of supervised release following his release from federal prison and continue to register as a sex offender.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, BP announced a 2012 profit of nearly $12 billion, pushing total profits for the five largest oil companies to $119 billion for the year. As oil company profits approach record levels, drivers across America are facing gas prices that have surged 17 cents per gallon in just the last...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that two defendants from Eatonton, Georgia, Frank Eugene Mathis, age 37, and Shellany Omar Denham, age 29, entered pleas of guilty to Distribution of Cocaine Base a/k/a Crack Cocaine, in violation of Title 21 United...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A detective with the San Luis Obispo Police Department was arrested this morning after being charged in a bribery scheme in which he allegedly took cash and narcotics from two individuals. In return, the police officer allegedly provided these “cooperating witnesses" with narcotics for their own use, as well as fake drugs to sell to drug dealers.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General Eric Holder announced today the appointment of U.S. Attorney for the District of North Dakota Timothy Q. Purdon as chair of the Native American Issues Subcommittee (NAIS) of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee of U.S. Attorneys (AGAC). Attorney General Holder also appointed U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma Sanford C. Coats to serve as vice chair.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: This morning, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee held a full committee hearing entitled, “America’s Immigration System: Opportunities for Legal Immigration and Enforcement of Laws Against Illegal Immigration." During opening remarks Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) delivered the following statement...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: Dig into exciting archeology with the Fort Stanwix Backyard Rangers on Saturday, Feb. 16, from 10 to 11:30 am and 1:30 to 3 pm and become an archeologist for the day! Learn what an archeologist does and get some hands on experience analyzing artifacts. Archeology has been used at Fort Stanwix National...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A man accused of robbing a Texas Champion Bank through use of force and intimidation has been convicted of bank robbery, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Nicholas Vernon Tolmie, 52, of Corpus Christi, entered a plea just a short time ago before Senior U.S. District Judge John D. Rainey.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC-Today, Reps. Patrick Meehan (R-Pennsylvania), Carolyn Maloney (D-New York), Scott Rigell (R-Virginia), and Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland) were joined by law enforcement officials from across the country in unveiling the first bipartisan bill in the House of Representatives during this Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: FARGO - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Feb. 5, 2013, Ashley Lenoir of Devils Lake, N.D., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to a charge of distribution of a controlled substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: NEDRA BELL, age 40, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged in a two-count bill of information filed yesterday for theft of government funds and making false statements to an agency of the United States, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Lexington, Mo., business owner has pleaded guilty in federal court to filing a false income tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: FARGO - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Feb. 5, 2013, Gregory Joseph Frohlich of Grand Forks, N.D., was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson on a charge of transportation of minors.
By State Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: Dear Mr. President: As Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the authorizing committee with primary jurisdiction over the Department of State and the United States Agency for International Development, we are writing to urge you to appoint permanent Inspectors General as...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La.: United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that former Acadiana Outreach Center case manager, Elaine Crump, 59, of Lafayette, pleaded guilty to a one-count Bill of Information charging her with Misprision of a Felony, that is, failure to report a bribery scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington sentenced Ihab "Steve" Barsoum (42, Lutz) yesterday to 17 years in federal prison for illegally distributing Oxycodone. On Aug. 21, 2012, a federal jury found Barsoum guilty of one count of conspiracy to distribute Oxycodone...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hunterdon County man who owns and operates P.H. Robinson Design and Landscaping Company Inc. (“P.H. Design") today admitted under-reporting $1.38 million in money paid to his business by customers, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: Letha Montemayor Tucker now also charged with child sex trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Brandon Royce Clark, 23, of Morristown, Tenn., was sentenced in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville, Honorable R. Leon Jordan, U.S. District Judge, presiding, to serve 100 months in prison for the felony offense of possession of ammunition by a previously convicted felon.
