News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Alisa Knight, age 29, of Dupree, South Dakota appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on Feb. 12, 2013 and pled guilty to Count I of the Indictment that charged her with Making False Statement to Federal Agency. The maximum penalty upon conviction is 5 years' imprisonment, a $250,000 fine or both and a period of supervised release of 3 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Jeffrey Curry, age 29, of St. Francis, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on Feb. 12, 2013 and pled guilty to Assaulting, Resisting, Opposing and Impeding a Federal Officer. The maximum penalty upon conviction is 20 years in custody, a $250,000 fine, or both; 3 years of supervised release; and a $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a Minnesota man pleaded guilty for his role in a large, multi-state identity theft ring. Jerome Davis, Jr., age 44, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. Davis, who was indicted along with four others on Nov. 14, 2012, entered his plea before United States District Court Judge Paul A. Magnuson.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing examining the progress of health insurance exchanges established under the President’s health law...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Chairman Darrell Issa requesting that the Committee hold a series of hearings in light of today’s historic announcement that the nonpartisan experts at the Government...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: Two Federal Indictments Charge 15 Defendants in Plots that Fraudulently Inflated Stock Values and Laundered Profits through Offshore Accounts.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: In early 1964, just two months after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, President Lyndon Johnson delivered his first State of the Union address.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: - Knowingly claimed false deductions and expenses resulting in a tax loss of over $450,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Gerald Baker, Sr., age 27, of Interior, South Dakota appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Veronica L. Duffy on February 8, 2013 and pled guilty to distribution of a controlled substance. The maximum penalty upon conviction is 5 years’ imprisonment and/or a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Missoula, Montana man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Pay Legal Child Support.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: Background On Operation Crash. Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Ignacia S. Moreno, the Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Department of Justice, announced that DAVID HAUSMAN, an antiques dealer in Manhattan...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Joseph C. M. Krist, 41, of Bulverde, has been indicted by a Corpus Christi federal grand jury for robbing IBC Bank, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
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. 14, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Carolyn S. Ostby, WILLIAM JOEY GUTIERREZ, III, a 21-year-old resident of Pryor and an enrolled member of the Crow Tribe of Indians, appeared for sentencing. GUTIERREZ was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI- After a one-day jury trial in District Court on St. Thomas on Tuesday, a federal jury found Glissell Herrera, 32, guilty on two counts charging making a false statement in an application for a United States passport and one count of submitting a false document to a department or agency of the United States, announced United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Late yesterday afternoon a federal jury found a Metro Denver man guilty of 17 counts of mail fraud, the United States Attorney’s Office and the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Criminal Investigations announced. John Edward Mullikin, age 51 of Arvada, was remanded into the custody of...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky - A former pharmacist from Richmond, Kentucky was sentenced in United States District Court today, by Senior Judge Joseph H. McKinley, Jr., to 25 months in prison followed by one month of supervised release for aggravated identity theft, fraudulently acquiring controlled substances...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A West Harwich man, formerly of Charlestown, was convicted yesterday for possessing child pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: LIMA, Peru - A former Peruvian police officer wanted in his native country for weapons trafficking was handed over to authorities in Lima late Wednesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) following his capture in Stockton, Calif.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a jury found a 38-year-old Coon Rapids man guilty of transporting firearms to his home country of Liberia. McHarding Degan Galimah, who was indicted on Aug. 22, 2012, was specifically convicted of one count of smuggling firearms from the United States to Liberia.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Three Brooklyn, N.Y, men were arrested today by agents of the FBI in connection with two armed robberies of T-Mobile stores in Linden, N.J., and Woodbridge, N.J., U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
