News from January 2013
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: A bipartisan bill to speed up assistance to communities recovering from Hurricane Sandy and reduce the costs of the recovery process is on its way to the President for his signature.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - Federal prosecutors today filed criminal charges against the chief executive of an Irvine company who for years paid kickbacks to ensure contracts for his firm, as well as an official with Panasonic’s American subsidiary who accepted the bribes from the Californian supplier of electronic components.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces that Salvador Cuevas (Orlando) today pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the government with respect to false claims. Cuevas faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: Join a ranger for a special puppet show in honor of Groundhog Day on February 2nd during the open house at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore's Paul H. Douglas Center. Shows at 1:00 pm and 2:30 pm will explain where these furry rodents have been and how they survive the long winter.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Kathryn Keneally, the Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and Steven T. Miller, the Acting Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS") today announced that U.S. District Judge William...
By State Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on the sentencing of Pastor Saeed Abedini in Iran...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Robert Clifton Tanner, age 45, of Mansura, Louisiana, pleaded guilty to mail fraud Thursday afternoon in U.S. District Court in connection with a scheme to use the mail to assert false claims of indebtedness totalling billions of dollars against judges and others. U.S. District Judge David Sam imposed a 30-month sentence following the guilty plea.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: Owners, Office Manager, and Doctor Charged with Illegally Selling and Distributing Large Quantities of Narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - John J. Arvanitis, the Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Carmen Ortiz, United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts announced seven individuals were charged today in federal court with conspiracy to distribute Oxycodone. Charged in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - David Copeland-Jackson, 40, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to five years in prison on federal charges in two cases, including one in which he plotted to deceive a federal judge into awarding him a $3 million default judgment in a civil lawsuit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Christopher Brandon Craner, 32, of Buhl, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to one count of bankruptcy fraud-asset concealment, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Craner was indicted by a federal grand jury on May 8, 2012.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.-- UCLA and the National Park Service opened a field station in the Santa Monica Mountains Tuesday, providing a new headquarters and center of operations for the university's La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: Loan Fraud Scheme Cripples Community Bank With More Than $10 Million In Losses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that, Brenna Sue Hauenstein of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced in federal court in Juneau for her role in a drug and money-laundering conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Kenneth H. DiPasquale, 37, of Morgantown, W.V., pleaded guilty on Jan. 25, 2013, to conspiracy to commit mail, wire, and bank fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with his role in fraudulent mortgage loan transactions, including the sale of his own home to a buyer whose identity he had stolen and to whom he “sold" the property for a nearly $320,000 profit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The former mayor of the City of Cudahy was sentenced this afternoon to one year in federal prison for taking cash bribes in exchange for supporting the opening of a “medical marijuana" store in the city.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that William Joseph Zinnanti, age 44, of Mountain View, California, was sentenced today, in Harrisburg, to four months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Court Senior Judge William W. Caldwell for introducing adulterated medical devices into interstate commerce in violation of Federal Food and Drug laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Ramon G. Zamarripa, 54, of Twin Falls, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 72 months in prison for possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Zamarripa to serve five years of supervised release and forfeit the firearm found in his possession.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: U.S. Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte woman convicted of Assaulting a Federal Officer was sentenced on Jan. 24, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange. Delanita LaClair, age 49, was sentenced to 3 years probation, a $300 fine, a $25 special assessment, 40 hours of community service, and a letter of apology to the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Police officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2013
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces today the arrest and unsealing of a federal indictment charging Anderson Scott Hall (48, Jacksonville)with ten counts of mail fraud and ten counts of wire fraud in connection with his operation of a fraudulent investment scheme. If convicted...
