News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: Eric Young, 39, and Calvin Johnson, 41, both of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were charged today by Indictment with one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and one count of bank fraud, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: SANJOY BHATTACHARYA, age 56, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier to one count of making false statements to an agency of the United States, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: Education and the Workforce Committee Republicans, led by Higher Education and Workforce Training Subcommittee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC), today released a comprehensive proposal to reform federal job training and employment assistance. The Supporting Knowledge and Investing in Lifelong Skills (SKILLS) ...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: ELIZABETH CITY - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court yesterday SAMUEL EARL GAINES, 29, was sentenced by United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle to 204 months imprisonment; 3 years supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $400.00 special assessment.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents, and officers assigned to the Puerto Rico Crimes Against Children Task Force (PRCACTF) arrested a Las Piedras resident Tuesday for production of child pornography.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida -U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell sentenced Wilfred Reginald Breuer (50, Port Orange) to 7 years and six months in federal prison for receipt and possession of child pornography. The court also ordered Breuer to forfeit the computer he used to receive the child pornography and to serve a ten year term of supervised release following his incarceration. Breuer pleaded guilty on Nov. 28, 2012.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Justin Williams, a/k/a “New York Ice", a/k/a “Pimp Juice", 38, of NY, NY, is charged by indictment, unsealed today, with the sex trafficking of minors, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the indictment, between November 2011 and January 2012, Williams recruited...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: Defendants Charged In Federal Criminal Complaints.

By DOE Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to creating clean energy jobs and lowering energy bills for U.S. businesses, the Department announced that Johnson Controls, Macy’s and Sprint are joining the Better Buildings Challenge. Launched by President Obama in 2011, the Better Buildings...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 26 indictments charging 30 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: HARRISBURG, PA - The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District Pennsylvania announced that a federal grand jury in Harrisburg returned an indictment today charging a Camp Hill marijuana trafficker.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Irvin Johnson, 26, of Washington, D.C., was found guilty by a jury today of killing two men and wounding another, and shooting at a fourth man, in a pair of shootings that took place within weeks in 2011, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: Florida Indictment Alleges Two Illegally Purchased Marine Life.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: Rock Island, Ill. - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging a Henry county man, Steven D. Ford, 27, of Cambridge, Ill., with production and possession of child pornography. Ford was previously arrested and charged by federal criminal complaint in July 2012. Ford has remained in federal...

By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: Join park rangers in March for a variety of fun and interesting interpretive programs. Park rangers will lead special guided tours of park sites and share personal stories of those who fought in the Pacific War. Programs provide visitors an opportunity to learn about park resources, the people we honor, and how events of the past still influence us today. For specific program details, please see the attached schedule of events.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - U.S. Attorney Robert E. O’Neill announces the return of a multi-count indictment charging Estella D. Wright and Dorian D. Wright, both of Brunswick, Georgia, with conspiracy to defraud the government and theft of public money. Estella Wright is also charged with seven counts of aggravated...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: JANICE STAVES, age 55, a resident of New Orleans, and JAMES YOUNGBLOOD, age 69, a resident of New Orleans, were charged in a bill of information today with conspiracy to commit theft concerning programs receiving federal funds, announced U. S. Attorney Dana Boente.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 53-year-old Excelsior coin dealer pleaded guilty to devising and executing a scheme to defraud customers and investors out of $2.7 million. David Laurence Marion pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and one count of money laundering. Marion, who was indicted on Nov. 14, 2012, entered his plea before United States District Court Judge Patrick J. Schiltz.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Carl Edward Washington, a former California Assemblyman who represented the state’s 52nd district, has agreed to plead guilty to federal bank fraud charges, admitting that he bilked financial institutions by falsely claiming to be the victim of identity theft.