News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Keith Gidelson, 36, a former Philadelphia police detective, was sentenced today to four years in prison for operating an anabolic steroid and human growth (“HGH") distribution organization in Philadelphia and throughout the United States. His wife, Kirsten Gidelson, was sentenced to three...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces the return by a grand jury of an indictment charging Paul Henry Carlin (58, Tampa) with transportation and receipt of child pornography. If convicted, Carlin faces a mandatory minimum of 5 years and up to 20 years in federal prison on each count.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: Lieberman: Homeland Security Success Overlooked. By Joseph I. Lieberman, CQ Roll Call, January 7, 2013. Texas Republican Rep. Michael McCaul’s recent Guest Observer (“Fix the Department to Protect the Homeland," Dec. 19) about travails facing the Department of Homeland Security is unfair. Eleven years...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: Edwin Stewart, a 35-year old Alton, Illinois, resident, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 57 months in prison for illegally possessing a firearm, announced Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - The U.S. Attorney’s Office has reached a settlement agreement under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with MasDonald, LLC, and Maloney’s Tavern to ensure equal access to Maloney’s Tavern for individuals with disabilities who use service animals. MasDonald, LLC, is an Arizona limited liability corporation that owns and operates Maloney’s Tavern, a restaurant located on Central Avenue NW in Albuquerque, N.M.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Jan. 7, 2013, Jerry W. Gibson, 46, Cando, N.D., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on a charge of possession of materials involving the sexual exploitation of minors. Gibson pleaded guilty to the charge on Aug. 22, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on January 7, 2013, Ledon Marcel Hatcliff, 27, of Lincoln, was sentenced to 15 years and eight months (188 months) in federal prison for his involvement in a conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine between June...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States Justice Department and U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced today the filing of a complaint alleging that Jerome County Sheriff’s Office willfully violated the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) by failing to reemploy and terminating...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Ava L. Ramey, age 61, of Bowie, Maryland today to two years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for embezzling at least $379,000 from a labor union. Judge Titus also ordered that Ramey pay restitution and forfeiture of $379,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Jan. 7, 2013, Koleman J. Gourneau, 30, of Belcourt, N.D., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. Gourneau pleaded guilty to the charge on Sept. 24, 2012.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 102,200 metric tons of corn for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2012/2013 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Ashville, New York, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rosebud man convicted of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury was sentenced on January 7, 2013, by United States District Judge Roberto A. Lange. Vinney Farmer, age 25, was sentenced to 33 months in custody, 2 years of supervised release, $2,691.66 in restitution, and a $100 special assessment to the Victim Assistance Fund.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement regarding the public announcement of a new settlement between the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Federal Reserve Board, and 10 mortgage servicers without first briefing the Oversight Committee as requested on a bipartisan basis last week...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - Eldon A. Gresham, Jr., 67, pleaded guilty late Thursday afternoon, before U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis, to one count of mail fraud stemming from a foreign currency exchange (ForEx) scam that he ran from January 2004 through June 2009, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A woman from Mexico has pleaded guilty to immigration document fraud in a case that made national headlines, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Last week, Timothy Luke Perea, 41, a member and resident of Laguna Pueblo, pled guilty to an indictment charging him with domestic assault by a habitual offender. Perea entered his guilty plea on Jan. 4, 2013, under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - Last week in federal court, a 48-year-old man from the central.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A permanent substitute teacher at a private school in Jersey City was arrested today after law enforcement officers discovered alleged child pornography on a computer at his residence, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Three men have each been ordered to federal prison for 96 months for their convictions in relation to Operation Total Exposure, the largest domestic sex trafficking case in the Southern District of Texas, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. During the course of the investigation, at least one minor was rescued and other minors and several adults have been returned to their families.
