News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Former Jackson Police Officers Monyette Quintel Jefferson, 27, Terence Dale Jenkins, 25, and Anthony Ricardo Payne, Jr., 26, were sentenced in U.S. District Court today for accepting bribes from an undercover FBI agent, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that LEIB GLANZ, a former New York City Department of Corrections chaplain who conspired with his brother MENASHE GLANZ to defraud the government of more than $220,000 in federal housing subsidies, was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: A man who used marijuana and possessed a firearm after being convicted of a felony offense pled guilty on Feb. 27, 2013, in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a letter sent to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner today, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.), and Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.)...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on Feb. 28, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, TRAVIS COLBY FUCHS, a 29-year-old resident of Billings, appeared for sentencing. FUCHS was sentenced to a term of.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) Mark Begich (D-AK) and Congressman Don Young (R-AK) today jointly called on Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to do the right thing and approve a land exchange that would provide road access to an all-weather airport for the people of King Cove, Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. COLUMBUS - Adriann Brierley, 37, of Buckeye Lake, Ohio was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to four months in prison for illegally accessing the personal...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Two men were sentenced on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, in U.S. District Court for their part in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr., sentenced Ildefonso Madrid...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford, Ill. man pleaded guilty today in federal court before U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to one count of wire fraud. CAMERON LOVE, 27, who was charged in a superseding indictment along with three other men, admitted that between mid-2010 and January 2012 he defrauded large retail chain stores by fraudulently acquiring tens of thousands of dollars of merchandise and returning the items for cash.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report for 2011 shows that the 476,077 visitors to Biscayne National Park spent $34,317,000 in communities surrounding the park. This spending supported 422 jobs in the local area.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: Fort Wayne, INCThe United States Attorney's Office announced that a Grand Jury sitting in Fort Wayne, Indiana, returned the following Indictments on Feb. 27, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - A new National Park Service (NPS) report for 2011 shows that the 508,116 visitors to Cape Lookout National Seashore spent $37,621,000 in communities surrounding the park. This spending supported 555 jobs in the local area.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: Three indictments were unsealed today in Brooklyn federal court charging seven defendants from the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, New York, with narcotics trafficking.1 Two of the indictments charge groups of defendants with trafficking cocaine base, and the third indictment charges a group with heroin...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that podiatrist who practiced in Harrisburg and Elizabethtown was sentenced today to 16 months in federal prison for committing health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore earlier this week sentenced Jose Rivas (61, Colombia) to 20 years in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine while onboard a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Rivas pleaded guilty on Dec. 17, 2012.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -Today, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) blasted Senate Democrats’ legislation (S. 388) to replace the President’s sequester with more tax hikes on the American people and called for a vote on his Motion to Commit which would direct the Finance Committee to replace the tax increases in the legislation with a series of reasonable, spending cuts.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: Brookings, S.D., Feb. 28, 2013 -Deputy Agriculture Secretary Kathleen Merrigan hosted two roundtable meetings in South Dakota this week to further USDA tribal consultation efforts and to obtain input from stakeholders on education and extension issues. During the meetings, Merrigan said USDA is moving aggressively to promote business development in rural South Dakota and in Indian Country with a goal of creating new, sustainable jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, N.J., man today admitted robbing the Garden State Community Bank in Newark, N.J., on two separate occasions, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: Fort Wayne, INCThe United States Attorney's Office announced that a Grand Jury sitting in Fort Wayne, Indiana, returned the following Indictments on Feb. 27, 2013.
