News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that the owner of a Harrisburg-based ambulance company has pleaded guilty to a False Statement charge related to Medicare fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on Feb. 21, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, BRANDON LEE STRECKER, a 38-year-old resident of Hardin, was sentenced to a term of.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 22, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) issued the following statement today regarding the Joint Statement by the United States and Japan concerning the Trans-Pacific Partnership...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2013
News Release: Eddie Johnson, Jr., 47, of Cahokia, IL, was sentenced to fifteen months in prison the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. In addition to the prison sentence, Johnson was ordered to serve three years supervised release and was ordered to repay to the F.B.I. $6,194.66 in investigative costs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Jorge Montemayor and Leticia Reyna have been arrested following the return of a 14-count indictment accusing them of failure to pay over employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today along with Special Agent in Charge of IRS - Criminal Investigation Lucy Cruz.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2013
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - Yesterday, a federal jury found Frank Higginbotham (36, Hastings) guilty of one count of conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine and one count of distribution of methamphetamine. For the conspiracy offense, Higginbotham faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years, up to life in...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2013
News Release: Harkers Island, NC - Superintendent Pat Kenney announced that Cape Lookout National Seashore (the park) has completed an Environmental Assessment (EA) for Passenger Ferry Facilities at the Harkers Island Visitor Center. This project continues the park's plans to establish passenger ferry service from...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced today that the government has joined a civil lawsuit alleging that Lance Armstrong, Johan Bruyneel and Tailwind Sports LLC and Tailwind Sports Corporation (Tailwind) submitted or caused the submission of false claims to the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) in...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Adriano Sotomayor, 54, of Margate, New Jersey, pleaded guilty, late today, to 17 counts of wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud members of the Dominican Sisters of the Rosary of Fatima (“Sisters of Fatima"), and others, between May 2009 and February 2012. Sotomayor was captured by the FBI Fugitive Squad in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Feb. 27, 2012. He went on the run Nov. 16, 2011, one day after he was indicted.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Northern District of Ohio. Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. Nicholas J. Henry, age 29, of Sheffield, Ohio, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $220,532.64 as a result of his recent conviction for wire fraud, said...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 22, 2013
News Release: Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Chairman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) will hold the panel’s first hearing of the Congress to examine how the U.S. Coast Guard allocates personnel and resources among its multiple missions, as well as how the Service measures mission performance.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2013
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will host a fourth public workshop and webinar for the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone (SEZ) Solar Regional Mitigation Plan (SRMP) will be held on Wed., Feb. 27, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at the Hampton Inn Tropicana, 4975 S. Dean Martin Dr., in Las Vegas.The BLM will...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2013
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A total of nine men have now been sentenced to federal prison as a result of the efforts of a multi-agency Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) investigation into a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. The conspiracy ran from 2003 until their arrests in June 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Middlesex County, N.J., man who was in custody awaiting a hearing for allegedly violating conditions of his federal supervised release was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for attempting to flee from a Trenton hospital, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2013
News Release: OWENSBORO, Ky. - A convicted sex offender living in Owensboro, Kentucky was sentenced to 30 months in prison, followed by a five-year term of supervised release, by Chief District Judge Joseph H. McKinley, Jr. this week, for failure to register with the Kentucky Sex Offender Registry announced David...
By State Newswire | Feb 22, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2013
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana- The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Ronnie Lee Durham, a/k/a “Ronnie Lee Johnson," and “R.P.J.," 50, of Alexandria, Virginia and formerly of Feasterville, PA is charged by Indictment, unsealed yesterday, with stealing and using the social security number of another person, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Durham is charged with four counts of Social Security Fraud and one count of Aggravated Identity Theft. He was arrested in Virginia.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 22, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 22, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today received the “Water Warrior" award from the Family Farm Alliance at their annual conference. The Family Farm Alliance is an advocate for family farmers, ranchers, irrigation districts, and allied industries in seventeen Western states. The award is given to individuals who have provided long-term support for western irrigated agriculture.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2013
News Release: MCALLEN, Texas - A convicted felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition has been handed a significant federal term of imprisonment, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Jose Antelmo Mendez, 49, of Mission, pleaded guilty Feb. 6, 2012.
