News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Alejandro Javier Martinez-Pedraza, 19, and Osvaldo Javier Silva-Hernandez, 19, both Mexican nationals who were illegally present in the United States, have been ordered to prison following convictions for possession with intent to distribute 662 kilograms of marijuana, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Robert Edward Cone has been sentenced for using a foreign account in the Channel Islands to corruptly obstruct and impede the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the collection of approximately $282,871 in federal income taxes, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today along with Lucy Cruz, special agent in charge of IRS - Criminal Investigation (CI). Cone pleaded guilty on Feb. 10, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Willie Elmore, age 43, of Brooklyn, New York was sentenced Wednesday by U.S. District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner to a 168-month (14 years) term of imprisonment for the armed robbery of the Fulton Bank in Etters, Pennsylvania. Judge Conner included an enhancement to the prison sentence for obstruction of justice.
By State Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the top Democratic on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the below remarks as prepared for delivery at today’s committee hearing, “The Crisis in Mali: U.S. Interests and the International Response." The statement follows...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Rachael Masingene, 21, of Charlotte, NC was sentenced yesterday to 36months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to transport an individual across state lines for prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - U.S. Attorney David J. Hickton issued the following statement today regarding recent deaths from Legionnaires' disease linked to a Pittsburgh Veterans Administration facility.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) today released the following statement after President Obama spoke in Decatur, Georgia about his new early childhood education proposal...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: Fire Management staff at Denali National Park and Preserve are planning to burn debris consisting of trees and brush beginning Tuesday, February 19 and continuing through Saturday, Feb. 23, weather conditions permitting. The piles are at the Parker Cabin, which is located on Moose Creek approximately...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on Feb. 13, 2013, before Senior U.S. District Judge Jack D. Shanstrom, ARMANDO HERNANDEZ-VACA, a 25-year-old resident of Billings, pled guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of methamphetamine. Sentencing has been set for May 15, 2013. He is currently detained.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Gilbert T. Lopez Jr., the former chief accounting officer of Stanford Financial Group Company, and Mark J. Kuhrt, the former global controller of Stanford Financial Group Global Management, were each sentenced today to 20 years in prison for their roles in helping Robert Allen Stanford perpetrate a fraud scheme involving Stanford International Bank (SIB). Both were convicted by a Houston federal jury on Nov. 19, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Former Philadelphia city employee John D. McDaniel, 39, of Philadelphia, pleaded guilty today to one count of wire fraud for allegedly stealing $100,000 from a campaign/political committee. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for May 14, 2013. McDaniel, the former Treasurer of the campaign/political...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: Dr. Mahmoud Yassin, 60, of Robinson, IL, pled guilty in federal district court for obstructing a criminal health care fraud investigator, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Dr. Yassin will be sentenced for this felony offense on May...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will begin a pilot project to allow wagons on the O&W trail on a limited basis. The pilot project will be used to gather data to determine if the use of wagons on this route is practical and desirable.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Vincent Shingler, 24, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to two years and eight months in prison for a robbery that took place in Northwest Washington last summer, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: RICHARD HALL, age 47, a resident of Harvey, Louisiana, was sentenced today in federal court by U.S. District Court Judge Jay C. Zainey, to 24 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy and one count of theft from a program receiving federal funds, the New Orleans Affordable...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Fort Yates, North Dakota woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces that Ieshia Jordan (27, Tampa) pleaded guilty today to conspiracy and wrongful disclosure of health information. Jordan faces a maximum penalty of 5 years in federal prison for the conspiracy charge and up to 10 years in prison on the wrongful disclosure of health information charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. Office of Public Affairs. Chinese national attempted to smuggle ivory falsely labeled as “wood carvings". SHERMAN, Texas - A 44-year-old Plano, Texas man has pleaded guilty to negligently attempting to smuggle ivory carvings from the United States, announced U.S. Attorney John M.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - An Easthampton man was convicted today in U.S. District Court in Springfield of counterfeiting.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: We are holding this hearing on an important, but not very immediate topic. What is not being done is to address the sequester that looms immediately. There are five legislative days remaining before the sequester kicks in and does severe damage to our economy. Just last week the nonpartisan Congressional...
