News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Juan Marie Delvalle, 25, of Rochester, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge David G. Larimer to conspiracy to commit tax fraud in connection with a large, nationwide tax refund scheme. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Robert Chin, 65, of Silver Spring, Md., pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute heroin to young women in return for sexual favors, including enticing a child into engaging in sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jose Victor Marroquin, age 41, from El Salvador and residing in East Stroundsburg, Pennsylvania was charged with illegal entry into the United States in a criminal Information filed today in U.S. District Court in Scranton.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - Arthur S. Weiss of Winston-Salem, N.C., was sentenced yesterday to 185 months in prison for employment tax fraud and other crimes by Judge Thomas D. Schroeder, announced Ripley Rand, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina; Kathryn Keneally, Assistant Attorney General...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on January 4, 2013, Juan Rios, 65, of Peru, was sentenced to 37 months in prison and ordered to pay fines and restitution totaling over $320,000.00 for his conviction on Health Care Fraud, Mail Fraud, and Failure to Appear. Rios was also ordered to serve 3 years of supervised release after his period of incarceration.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: U.S. House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin C. Peterson, D-Minn., today announced 19 of the 21 Democrats appointed to the Committee for the 113th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Denis Quirke, 37, an Irish national, will be turned over to immigration officials for deportation proceedings after being sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge William E. Smith to time served in federal prison for falsely representing to the government that he was a U.S. citizen...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - Edward L. Stanton III, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, has named veteran federal prosecutor and former acting United States Attorney Laurence J. Laurenzi as Civil Rights Unit Chief.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: This morning, a federal criminal complaint was filed against 36-year-old San Antonio Police Officer Curtis W. Lundy charging him with theft of honest services by wire fraud announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez and San Antonio Police Chief William McManus.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) are holding scoping meetings to provide an opportunity for interested parties to talk to staff and resource specialists to identify issues to address in environmental impact statements to evaluate greater sage-grouse conservation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: Concord Man Gets 120 Year Prison Term.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: Dear Mr. Speaker: Please accept my warmest congratulations on your re-election as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Given what occurred in the last Congress, I feel it is necessary to ask, do you truly intend to manage the U.S. House of Representatives for the 113th Congress under “regular...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), today announced the arrest of MICHAEL VANHISE for conspiracy to commit kidnapping. VANHISE...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - The former bookkeeper of a law firm based in Ocean County, N.J., was sentenced to 21 months for defrauding her former employer by stealing more than $500,000 from the firm, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Chief U.S. District Judge Anne C. Conway sentenced Donald G. Weiss (68, Orlando) yesterday to 6 ½ years in federal prison for possessing child pornography. The court also ordered Weiss to forfeit the computer and hard drives that he used to possess the child pornography. As part of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Christopher Crofts announced that on Friday, January 4th 2013, Jessica Shockley, age 24, of Bland, Virginia, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Alan Johnson to 240 months of imprisonment on federal charges relating to the production of child pornography. Shockley must pay a $1,000 fine and a $100 special assessment and will also be placed on lifetime probation upon her release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A medical assistant at a pair of large medical services companies with offices in New Jersey and New York admitted today to conspiring with the companies’ chief executive officer to defraud Medicare over a four-year period by performing illegal, unlicensed physicians’ services for patients, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: A former Cuyahoga County employee and another man were sentenced to prison after previously pleading guilty to racketeering, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - John Grzyminski, 50, of Warrington, PA, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for the illegal possession of an unregistered explosive device. On May 9, 2012, the defendant’s mother called the Warrington Township Police Department to report that she felt threatened by the defendant.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - Antonio Clifton, 38, of Memphis, TN, was sentenced yesterday to 292 months in federal prison for firearms possession, possession of cocaine, and possession of crack cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
