News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was charged today in federal court with 18 counts of racketeering, drug trafficking, witness tampering and other charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, six current and former members of the Senate Finance Committee, led by Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), released a comprehensive report outlining recommendations from more than 160 stakeholders in the health care community on ways to improve federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on Jan. 31, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, JALEN JEREMY LARANCE, a 21-year-old resident of Lame Deer and an enrolled member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, appeared for sentencing. LARANCE was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - James Lynn Jones, 69, of Abilene, Texas, pleaded guilty this morning in federal court, before U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings, to an Information charging one count of operating an illegal gambling business, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas. Jones operated the illegal gambling business, Lot-O-Games, on Highway 277 in Jones, County, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Eduardo Alaniz, 24, and Sebastian Mendez, 30, have been charged with conspiring to falsify records at Bank of America in Mission, where they were formerly employed as tellers, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine pled guilty Jan. 30, 2013, in federal court in Sioux City.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A former National Football League player who formerly resided in Passaic County was sentenced today to seven months in prison for failing to file a federal income tax return, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Lamar Elmer Smith, 32, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois, pled guilty today in in United States District Court in Benton to charges that he possessed a weapon in that prison, announced Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. The...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Jim Northup, a 32 year National Park Service veteran, has been selected asthe new superintendent of Shenandoah National Park and Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park, both in Virginia.".
By Interior Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: HOMESTEAD, FLORIDA - As a result of damage sustained during Tropical Storm Sandy in late October, Elliott Key Harbor has remained closed. Inspection by an engineer revealed extensive structural damage to the harbor's seawall and boat slips, making the area unsafe for docking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The owner of a Phillipsburg, N.J., luggage manufacturing company admitted today that he defrauded the Lakeland Bank of Oak Ridge, N.J., of $3 million, U. S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - After a 14-day trial, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 21, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Somalia and resident of Corvallis, Ore., was convicted today by a federal jury in the District of Oregon of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction (explosives) in connection with a plot to detonate a vehicle bomb at an annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Ore.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Chen, the owner of Fune Ya Japanese Restaurant in San Francisco was sentenced yesterday to 33 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $459,105 for filing false federal corporate income tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and mail fraud...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i - Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park Law Enforcement Ranger Nainoa Keana'aina is the first-ever recipient of the Honor Graduate Award from the National Search and Rescue Academy (NSARA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Jimmy Holland Boyd, 63, of Fredericksburg, Virginia pled guilty on Jan. 29, 2013, to failing to pay employment taxes and failing to file personal income tax returns. As part of the plea, he admitted that he had not filed personal income tax returns since 1988 and owes the United States $350,000 in back taxes.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Corn crop residues are often left on harvested fields to protect soil quality, but they could become an important raw material in cellulosic ethanol production. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) research indicates that soil quality would not decline if post-harvest corn cob residues were removed from fields.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a hearing next Tuesday, February 5th as part of its continuing efforts to examine waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement in federal spending programs and its affect on the federal government’s current fiscal path.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - An individual found by the New Castle Police has been sentenced in federal court to time-served on his conviction of re-entry into the United States after deportation, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Lynn Carol Williams, age 56, of Middle River, Maryland pleaded guilty today to wire fraud in connection with a scheme to misuse the corporate purchasing card and cause losses of more than $107,000 to the Freestate Challenge Academy, a Maryland National Guard program located at Aberdeen Proving Ground.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK -United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced that a Syracuse Federal Grand Jury has returned an indictment charging Alexandru Turcan, 29, with wire fraud, false use of a passport, and aggravated identity theft in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343, 1543 and 1028A. Turcan, originally from Chisinau, Moldova, is a lawful permanent resident of the United States. He was apprehended while entering the United States through Orlando, Florida.
