News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: Portland, Ore. - Ricky Lee Greenwood, 31, of Portland, Oregon, has been indicted on nine counts of wire fraud, nine counts of filing false claims for tax refunds, and eight counts of aggravated identity theft, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service announced. Greenwood made his initial...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: MOBILE, AL-- United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown announces that Daniel Louis McReynolds, Jr., was sentenced to twenty years confinement today for his involvement in an extensive drug trafficking conspiracy. McReynolds was previously indicted with co-defendants Labarry Soloman, Allen Nettles, Marlon...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: Pawtucket Police Investigation Leads To Seizure Of Crack Cocaine, 357 Revolver And Ammunition.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer, Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, joined with 15 of her Senate colleagues on a letter to President Obama urging him to nominate a strong leader as the next Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The letter called for ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: A federal grand jury sitting in Cleveland, returned a one-count indictment charging Donte Booker, age 45, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, with a violation of federal narcotics law, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: Annapolis, MD - Today, the National Park Service and state partners released the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Public Access Plan. This plan reflects the state of public access to significant streams, rivers, and bays in the entire Chesapeake watershed, including portions of Delaware, Maryland, New York...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
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By US DOT Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Legislation authored by U.S. Representative Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, that solidifies Indian Country’s tribal sovereignty during disasters and emergency situations is expected to be signed into law by the President in the coming days. Rahall’s language was included as part of H.R. 152 which was approved by the Senate last night after being passed in the House earlier this month.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Floyd Everett Harshman, 54, of Fairbanks, Alaska was sentenced in federal court for three counts of drug trafficking and one count of possessing a firearm in furtherance of the drug trafficking crimes. Harshman was sentenced to 120 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: WICHITA FALLS, Texas - Stephen Paul Riley, 41, of Olney, Texas, appeared in federal court in Wichita Falls, Texas, this morning and pleaded guilty, before U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor, to an Indictment charging one count of destruction of an aircraft. Riley, who will remain on bond, faces a maximum...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Jan. 28, 2013, Jalen Michael Montana, 36, of Sells, AZ, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Cindy K. Jorgenson to 15 years in the federal Bureau of Prisons. Montana was sentenced following a guilty plea on Sept. 10, 2012, to one felony count of voluntary manslaughter for the New Year’s Eve stabbing of another Tohono O’odham member.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, N.J., man was indicted today by a federal grand jury for using stolen identities to file false tax returns and obtain more than $1 million in tax refund checks, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on Jan. 29, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, FREDERICK PAUL DEPUTEE, JR., a 25-year-old resident of Hardin and an enrolled member of the Crow Tribe, pled guilty to theft from an Indian organization. Sentencing has been set for May 1. He is released on special conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA- Kraig Antonio Davis, 23, of Tallahassee, Florida,was arraigned in federal court today on charges of filing false tax claims, aggravated identity theft, and mail fraud. The indictment was announced today by Pamela C. Marsh, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON— U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Deputy Secretary Jane Holl Lute, U.S. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan, FBI Deputy Director Sean Joyce, and DHS Office of Infrastructure Protection Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: A federal grand jury in Montgomery, Ala., returned an indictment charging LaQuanta Clayton with aggravated identity theft and theft of government money, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: A federal grand jury in Montgomery, Ala., returned an indictment charging Scottie Alice Johnson with a conspiracy to commit theft of public funds and to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and with theft of public funds, the Justice Department and the IRS announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: A federal grand jury in Montgomery, Ala., returned an indictment charging Lea’Tice Phillips for conspiring to file false tax returns using stolen identities, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. The 37 count indictment charges Phillips with conspiracy to file false claims, wire fraud, computer fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: A federal grand jury today indicted a former Town Creek, Ala., police officer for violating an individual’s civil rights during the course of an arrest, announced Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Thomas E. Perez, U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: BP Exploration and Production Inc. pleaded guilty today to 14 criminal counts for its illegal conduct leading to and after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, and was sentenced to pay $4 billion in criminal fines and penalties, the largest criminal resolution in U.S. history, Attorney General Holder ...
