News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: PHOENIX - On Jan. 28, 2013, Brice Little, 29, of Parker, Ariz., and a member of the Colorado River Indian Tribes, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Martone.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: Portland, Ore. - A federal grand jury in Portland has returned an indictment against Shamont Sapp, 49, charging him with mail fraud in a five-year scheme involving false claims of child sex abuse by Catholic priests in four dioceses. Sapp, originally from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is alleged to have...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court yesterday STEVEN M. HARDWICK, 53, of Nichols, South Carolina, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III, to 12 months and one day imprisonment, restitution of $171,513, and 5 years of supervised...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: Dear Attorney General Holder: We are writing to request a briefing about the decisions by federal prosecutors to bring criminal charges in 2011 and 2012 against Internet activist Aaron Swartz, 26, who was found dead in his apartment from an apparent suicide on Jan. 11, 2013. In 2010, Mr. Swartz...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on Jan. 29, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Keith Strong, KEITH DANIEL SKUNKCAP, a 21-year-old resident of Browning and an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe, pled guilty to burglary. Sentencing has been set for May 10, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Middle District of North Carolina. Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Conducted Fraudulent Medicaid Billing Scheme. GREENSBORO, N.C. - United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina Ripley Rand announced today that EVELYN FULLER and MICHAEL MCLEAN...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA B Three defendants have been charged with conspiring to defraud the United States in the filing of false tax returns. The 31-count indictment, unsealed today, also charges wire fraud, false claims, and aggravated identity theft. 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: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement in response to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report on the United States Secret Service incident in Colombia last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Daniel Francis Jones, 51, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced this morning to 70 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his bank robbery conviction. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales and Special Agent in Charge Carol K.O. Lee of the Albuquerque Division of the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that Michael A. Zimmerman, age 55, of Dover was indicted by a federal grand jury on Jan. 23, 2013 for numerous bank fraud-related offenses. More specifically, Mr. Zimmerman was charged with...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON- In a joint letter sent today, Senator David Vitter (R-La.), the top Republican of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and Congressman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, questioned James Martin, Region 8 Administrator...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Earlier today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., Terrence Charles Blake, 29, a member and resident of the Mescalero Apache Nation, was sentenced to 79 months in prison for his aggravated sexual abuse conviction. Blake will serve a five-year term of supervised release after he completes...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that an Anchorage man was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for twelve counts of false statements to a credit union.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) announced the Chairmen of the subcommittees for the 113th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former International Longshoremen’s Association (“ILA") member was sentenced to 30 months in prison today for conspiring to extort ILA Local 1235 longshoremen on the New Jersey piers for Christmastime tribute payments, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and Eastern District of New York U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Yesterday afternoon, Alfonso Levya, 34, of Las Cruces, was sentenced to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales and Thomas G. Atteberry, Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: Defendant filed more than 70 false federal excise tax returns on behalf of his business, Side Pocket Food Company, and owes more than $879,000 in federal excise taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: - Sentenced To 42 Months For Threatening A Federal Agent.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Brothers Edwan Dablan, 37, of Kingsburg, and Khamal Dablan, 25, of Selma, pleaded guilty on Monday to participating in a long-term methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy, Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Edwan Dablan also pleaded guilty to an additional charge of money laundering.
