News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Feb. 1, 2013, Regina Jimenez, age 60, of Clinton, Iowa, pled guilty to two counts of filing false tax returns, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Jimenez faces up to 3 years imprisonment, a fine of up to $1,000,000 and costs of prosecution on each count.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee - and author of the prevention title of the Affordable Care Act - released the following statement on the Administration’s proposed rule on contraceptive cost sharing for religious organizations...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Jesus Manuel Zuniga, 28, of Nampa, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday in United States District Court to an information charging him with one count of unlawful possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Lin Xiao Wei, 32, a Chinese national, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence today to importing counterfeit tobacco products into the United States from China, earmarked for Rhode Island. Wei admitted to the court that beginning in February 2012, he arranged for the shipment of a 22-foot cargo container containing counterfeit cigarettes.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., issued the following statement on the announcement that Secretary Steven Chu is leaving his post at the Department of Energy...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Steven J. Mascarenas, 53, of Westminster, Colorado, was sentenced recently by U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn to serve 72 months in federal prison for wire fraud, making a false statement to a pretrial services officer, and escape, U.S. Attorney John Walsh, Denver FBI Special Agent...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - SAFIYYAH TAHIR BATTLES, formerly a real estate agent with T&T Realty in Oklahoma City, has been sentenced to thirty months in prison for mortgage fraud and money laundering, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Feb. 1, 2013, Jonathan Lamont Morning, age 34, of Davenport, was sentenced to 120 months imprisonment, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. United States District Judge John A. Jarvey also sentenced Morning to five years supervised release following imprisonment, ordered him to pay a $100 special assessment to the crime victim fund, and ordered him to forfeit $10,182 in cash seized during the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams, Jr. sentenced Nathan A. Silla, age 39, of Glenn Dale, Maryland, today to 12 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit bank fraud, two counts of bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, in connection...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on Feb. 1, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen, CHRISTOPHER WAYNE WILLIAMS, a 38-year-old resident of Helena, appeared for sentencing. WILLIAMS was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Xin Gu, 29, of Dalian, China, has been sentenced to prison following his convictions of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Gu entered a plea of guilty on Tuesday, July 10, 2012, after hearing a day of trial testimony in federal court in Houston.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: Four Canton men were sentenced to prison this week for their involvement in a drug-trafficking ring in which cocaine, heroin and crack cocaine was brought into Stark County and distributed by members of the Rated R street gang, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’ Cleveland office.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: This Sunday, Feb. 3, marks the 100 year anniversary of the Sixteenth Amendment, more commonly known as the amendment permitting the federal income tax. This day serves as a reminder of how the income tax has changed since it was first enacted in 1913. In recognition of the anniversary, Senate Finance...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on Feb. 1, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, MARK RYAN COYLE, a 35-year-old resident of Billings, appeared for sentencing. COYLE was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Isaac Amparo-Vazquez, 30, also known as David Feliciano-Sanchez and Jesus Angel Quinones-Ortiz, of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced in federal court Friday for his role in drug and tax fraud conspiracies. Amparo-Vazquez, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Timothy M. Burgess to 57 months in prison to be followed by 4 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Danilo Garcia, age 43, of Bronx, New York, today to 188 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin and four counts of possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana- The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: 65 Kilos Of Cocaine, $1.2 Million In Cash Seized In Federal, State, Local Law Enforcement Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael B. Steinbach, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, Hugo Barrera, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), J.D. Patterson...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Williamstown man who is a registered sex offender was charged today with sexually exploiting a 16-year-old boy.
