News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - The leader of the Internet piracy group “IMAGiNE" was sentenced today to serve 60 months in prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Neil H. MacBride; Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; and Special Agent in Charge John P. Torres of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI) in Washington, D.C.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today welcomed Senators Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) to serve on the Senate Finance Committee in the 113th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - David M. Ketchmark, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a St. Louis, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in the murder of 70-year-old security guard Dwight Mayhugh, Sr., during an armed bank robbery in 2006.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Toni Weirauch, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI"), announced today the indictment of TREVOR WHITTINGHAM, an owner of parking lots...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Jorge Luis Sandoval, 32, of Pharr, will soon be serving a federal prison sentence for smuggling two cellular telephones into the East Hidalgo Detention Center for an inmate, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Sandoval pleaded guilty to one count of bribery on July 3, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - David M. Ketchmark, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Kansas City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to robbing the Bank of America.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture cancellations of export sales of 315,000 metric tons of soybeans to China during the 2012/2013 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that TODD HANSEN, the former President of the United States division of an international outdoor advertising company (the “Company"), was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to four months in prison, in...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), today wrote to Shell Oil Company and the United States Coast Guard requesting information on the ongoing incident with Shell’s oil rig that has run aground in Alaska. Rep. Markey, the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee, which oversees oil drilling, asks in the letters for more information on Shell’s plans to address such an accident and the ability of Shell to drill safely offshore in severe weather conditions in the Arctic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge, New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Longworth, the Commissioner of Westchester County Department of Public Safety, Thomas Zugibe, Rockland...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - An information was unsealed today charging Bevis Vanterpool, 35, of Philadelphia, with conspiring to distribute oxycodone, a Schedule II narcotic controlled substance, and money laundering, in violation of federal drug and money laundering laws, announced United States Attorney Zane David...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: Sold Non-Approved Drug, that Causes Birth Defects and Increases the Risk of Blood Clots, to an Undercover Agent Who Claimed to be Pregnant and Have Blood Clots.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: WILMINGTON - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that EMMANUEL WALLACE III, of Hurdle Mills, North Carolina, was sentenced yesterday by Senior United States District Judge James C. Fox for his role in the June 23, 2011 robbery of approximately $1,210,440 from a Garda armored vehicle when it was located adjacent to the Washington, North Carolina, Bank of America automated teller machine.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The leader of the Internet piracy group "IMAGiNE" was sentenced today to 60 months in prison following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - Beverly Joan DeRonde, age 61, of Pella, Iowa, pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud in a proceeding before United States Magistrate Judge Ross A. Walters, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Sentencing has been scheduled for April 5, 2013, at the United States Courthouse in Des Moines before Chief Judge James E. Gritzner.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Seeking leads in an unsolved child sexual exploitation case, federal authorities today announced the filing of a federal criminal complaint against two individuals - known only as “John Doe" and “Jane Doe" - who are charged with producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: In First-Ever Guilty Plea To Tax Law Violations By A Foreign Bank, Wegelin & Co. Agrees To Pay $74 Million To The United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Christopher George Perry, age 50, of Baltimore, today to two years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for social security disability fraud, federal health benefit program fraud and health care fraud. Judge Bennett also ordered Perry to pay restitution totaling $154,234.54 to the Social Security Administration and Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: Jesse Raymond Akers, 20, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was sentenced today to serve 148 months’ in federal prison for possessing firearms as an unlawful drug user, and for possessing stolen firearms. Akers had pled guilty to both offenses on Aug. 17, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2013
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Mauricio R. Munoz, age 49, of Sandy, who pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering in connection with a construction fraud scheme involving five lots in the Promontory Point development located near Park City, will serve 41 months in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart imposed the sentence Wednesday in federal court in Salt Lake City.
