News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Silverio Venegas Jr., 37, of Rio Bravo, has been sentenced to serve a total of 51 months in prison, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: BOISE -Amando Garcia, Jr., a/k/a Amando Torres, a/k/a “Toro," 29, was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise and attempted murder in aid of racketeering, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Garcia to serve five years of supervised release. He pleaded guilty to the charges on August 8, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: Lawton, Oklahoma - Today, CONNELL C. WILLIAMS, 33, from Virginia, has pled guilty to first degree murder in the starvation death of a ten-year-old boy on Fort Sill Army Post, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: COVINGTON, KY - Under a settlement agreement with the U.S. Government, Villaspring Health Care Center, Inc., and Carespring Health Care Management, LLC are further enhancing the care that they provide to residents of Villaspring’s nursing home in Erlanger, KY., announced United States Attorney Kerry Harvey.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Allen E. Overholtzer, age 35 of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced on Feb. 25, 2013, to 15 months in prison by United States District Judge Laurie Smith Camp, for failing to register as a sex offender. After his release from prison, Overholtzer will be required to serve a five year term of supervised release and be registered as a sex offender.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ. - On Saturday, March 23, 2013, Grand Canyon National Park will host its sixth annual Archaeology Day celebration, commemorating Arizona Archaeology and Heritage Awareness Month. Special programs, activities and demonstrations will be held at the Grand Canyon Visitor Center throughout the day, with a special evening program at the Shrine of the Ages.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Hugo J. Barrera, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), Miami Field Division, announced that Santiago Gonzalez, of Coral Springs, Florida, pled guilty today to one count of...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa, - A North Hills resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: AARON F. BROUSSARD (“BROUSSARD"), age 64, a resident and former two-term President of Jefferson Parish, was sentenced today to 46 months by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Hayden Head from the Southern District of Texas, for his involvement in a Conspiracy to Commit Bribery, Wire Fraud, and Theft Concerning...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Feb. 25, 2013, Fred Carl Chapman, age 30, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced to 63 months imprisonment, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. United States District Judge Stephanie M. Rose also ordered Chapman to serve three years supervised release following imprisonment, and pay a $100 special assessment to the crime victim fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Michael Giventer, 53, formerly of Brownsville, has been ordered to prison for five years following his conviction of conspiracy to commit bankruptcy fraud, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. He pleaded guilty to the charge in Spring 2012, along with his wife, Florida resident Julia Shavabskaya, 40.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: Escobedo-Gonzalez is Final Defendant Sentenced in OCDETF Case.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a 28-year-old North Carolina woman was sentenced for her role in a scheme that defrauded mortgage lenders out of approximately $8.9 million. United States District Court Judge Susan Richard Nelson sentenced Ashley Elizabeth Prasil, formerly of Eden...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: Subcommittee on Aviation Chairman Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ) will hold a hearing on Wednesday to focus on the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) progress in implementing the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, following the one-year anniversary of the measure being signed into law. This will be the first hearing of the Subcommittee in the 113th Congress, as well as LoBiondo’s first as Aviation Chairman.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Westmoreland County has been sentenced in federal court to two years imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, on his conviction of wire fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: The research, published online offsite link today in Nature Climate Change, uses existing occupational health and safety thresholds to establish a new metric to quantify a healthy, acclimated individual’s capacity to safely perform sustained labor under environmental heat stress. Heat stress can result...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La: United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that former Acadiana Outreach Center employee Sandra Degeyter, 61, of Lafayette, pleaded guilty to a one-count Bill of Information charging her with conspiracy to commit bribery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Donald J. Cazayoux, Jr., announced that ANGELIA NAUMAN, age 52, of Zachary, Louisiana, was sentenced today by U.S. District Chief Judge Brian J. Jackson to a term of imprisonment of twenty-seven (27) months.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man was sentenced Monday to five years in federal prison for a firearms violation, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A member of a Dodge City street gang was sentenced Monday to 82 months in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
