News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Robert Fleming, 32, of Chadron, Nebraska, was sentenced today, Feb. 20, 2013, in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 10 years in prison by United States District Judge Richard G. Kopf, for receipt and distribution of child pornography. After his release from prison, Fleming will be required to serve the rest of his life under supervision.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today called on America’s overseas trading partners to drop remaining barriers to U.S. beef exports based on bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). His call follows the news that the Scientific Commission for the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) is recommending that the rating for risk of BSE in U.S. beef be upgraded to the lowest-possible risk - negligible.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Western District of Michigan. Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Jacinto Morales-Martinez, 48, a citizen of Mexico who is also a previously-deported felon, was sentenced Tuesday to serve 60 months in a United States Federal prison for his...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: JEFFREY SPONSELLER, 47, of Augusta, Georgia pleaded guilty today before United States District Court Judge J. Randal Hall to submitting over $800,000 in fraudulent claims to Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: - Charges also include threatening the life of the First Lady.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - This weekend, Darryl Haley, former New England Patriot, Ironman Triathlete, and world-renowned fitness trainer, will be joining Grand Canyon National Park's Diversity Council in celebrating Black History Month and enjoying the Grand Canyon as a place to have fun, learn something, and get healthy at the same time.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that HENRY GORDIN pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to conspiring to defraud programs administered by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Inc. (the “Claims Conference"), established...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Maurice Lebron Davis, age 39, of Brooklyn, New York, was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg. The indictment charges Davis with 10 counts of Interference with Commerce by Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of the Hill District section of Pittsburgh, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 10 years incarceration and three years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal firearm laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington today sentenced Jimmy Samir Mendoza-Valle (20, Honduras) to 15 months in federal prison for obstruction of justice and perjury charges. Mendoza-Valle pleaded guilty on Nov. 30, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La: United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Ramon Guadalupe Aldama-Rodriguez, 35, of Mexico, was sentenced Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Richard T. Haik to 37 months in prison plus five years supervised release for distributing cocaine and heroin between Abbeville and Baton Rouge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Jose Roberto Obregon, 29, of Laredo, has entered a plea of guilty for his role in a conspiracy to export weapons to Mexico destined for Los Zetas Drug Trafficking Organization, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Javier F. Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced...
By State Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Tuesday met with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai at the Presidential Palace in Kabul. In his first trip to Afghanistan as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he also met with new International Security Assistance Forces Commander General Joseph Dunford.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County man was sentenced today to 130 months in prison for his role in an armed carjacking in Elizabeth, N.J., on Jan. 25, 2011, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La.: U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Phillip Sessa Jr., 30, of Essex, Md., was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Richard T. Haik to 97 months in prison and 15 years of supervised release for possessing child pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement in response to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report he requested on the security of federal facilities. The report, entitled "Facility Security: Greater...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp today sentenced Dale Anthony Borders (38, Orlando) to two years and six months in federal prison for trafficking in counterfeit DVDs bearing the trademarks of Beachbody, LLC, Disney Enterprises, Inc., and Zumba Fitness, LLC. Borders pleaded guilty on Nov. 29, 2012.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: UPCOMING EVENTS AT LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA FEB 23-MARCH 16.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, Antonio J. Gomez, Acting Inspector in Charge, U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), Miami Field Office, and Ric L.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Kip David Harris, 38, of Boulder, Montana, was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court in Coeur d’Alene to three years’ probation for making a false statement, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Harris to pay a $750 fine. He pleaded guilty to the charge on December 4, 2012.
