News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. DAYTON - Edward “Ed" Claude Jones, 55, of West Carrollton was sentenced to 24 months in prison, 3 years of supervised release, and agreed to a $300,000 money judgment relative to committing conspiracy, food stamp fraud and tax crimes in connection with two...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Billy Frank Davis, aka Bill F. Davis, a former attorney residing in Houston, has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for perpetrating a decade-long investment fraud scheme that victimized more than 20 investors of approximately $7.8 million, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson, Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division Kathryn Keneally, and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today that a Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, jury convicted Michael George Fitzpatrick, 51, of Hope, Idaho, of two counts of income tax evasion after a four-day...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Deborah Jean Gibson, age 57, of Windsor Mill, Maryland today to a year and a day in prison followed by three years of supervised relief for theft of mail by a postal service employee. Judge Hollander also ordered Gibson to pay restitution of $1,215.39.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on Jan. 10, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, JEFFERY W. LARSON, a 46-year-old resident of Billings, was sentenced to a term of.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Department of Energy today released its report on implementing final recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) issued the following response to DOE’s implementation report...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiracy and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: US Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Valentine, Nebraska, woman convicted of one count of Wire Fraud and one count of Theft from Gaming Establishment on Indian Lands was sentenced on Jan. 10, 2013, by United States District Judge Roberto A. Lange. Michelle Carrier, age 37, was sentenced to 6 months’ probation, $10,000 in restitution, and $200 to the Victim Assistance Fund.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: Superintendent Barclay Trimble announced today that between January 31 and Feb. 16, 2013, weather and conditions permitting, National Park Service fire management staff, as part of the Outer Banks Group Fire Management Plan, will conduct prescribed burning on Bodie Island within Cape Hatteras National Seashore.The planned burn will consist of approximately 2,061 acres located west of NC Highway 12, south of the Whalebone Junction and north of the Navy Tower Access Road.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Roland Kaufmann, CEO of Axius Inc., pleaded guilty today in Brooklyn for conspiring to bribe stock brokers, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Loretta E. Lynch.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. DAYTON - Earl Clark, 40, of Franklin, Ohio, was ordered to forfeit two bank accounts containing $353,211.91 and $33,388.14, plus $21,524 in U.S. currency, nine automobiles, and a trailer, and to pay $80,000 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Baltimore, MD. Significance: Baltimore’s concentration of historic, cultural, and natural resources makes the city a truly unique place. The city has been witness to events that have dramatically altered the course of the nation’s history. Over the centuries Baltimore has also been...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 46-year-old woman pleaded guilty to assaulting another inmate at the Federal Correctional Institute in Waseca, Minnesota. Felecia Thomas pleaded guilty to one count of assault with a dangerous weapon. She did not enter into a plea agreement with the United States, but, rather, offered a “straight plea" to the single count in the indictment, which was filed on May 15, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: Travis L. Garner, 26, from St. Louis, MO, was sentenced on Jan. 11, 2013, in District Court in East St. Louis, Il, on one count of Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Previously Convicted Felon, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Franklin Thad Harris, age 57, and Merlin D. Unruh, age 51, both of Grand Junction, Colorado, were arrested today in Grand Junction for a bank fraud scheme, the United States Attorney’s Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and IRS Criminal Investigation announced. Harris and Unruh were...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James S. Moody, Jr. today sentenced Sergio Godinez Del Toro (47, Napa, California) to 24 years and four months in federal prison for conspiring with others to distribute, and for aiding and abetting others in possessing with intent to distribute, 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. Godinez Del Toro was found guilty on Oct. 16, 2012, following a jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2013
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Donald J. Cazayoux, Jr. announced that an Indictment was returned today against GERALD ESTRADE for threatening to murder a former federal law enforcement officer in violation of federal law. A complaint was filed and arrest warrant issued on January 8, 2013 and Estrade was taken into federal custody at that time.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. Announced today that a federal grand jury in Buffalo has returned an indictment charging Robert P. Dombrowski, 50, of Buffalo, N.Y., with attempting to persuade, induce, entice, and coerce a minor to engage in sexual activity. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum penalty of life, and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2013
News Release: A 10-count indictment was filed charging Barry P. DeRan, age 54, of Maumee, Ohio, with conspiracy, making false statements in the acquisition of firearms, and unlawfully dealing in firearms, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL - David Dwinell (52, Palm Harbor) today pleaded guilty to bank robbery and using a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. Dwinell faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison.
