News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James T. Hayes, Jr., the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (“ICE") Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI"), announced that CHRISTIE HWANG, the director...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2013
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that Kevin Veath, 54, of Belleville, Illinois, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for defrauding the unemployment insurance program. Following his plea of guilty on Oct. 3, 2012, to a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2013
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Following an afternoon of testimony before U.S. District Judge John McBryde, and five hours of deliberation, a federal jury convicted Josue Martinez-Garcia, aka “Cholo," of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine. Martinez-Garcia, ...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2013
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - Texas and Oklahoma Coal Company, LLC, filed a coal exploration license with the Bureau of Land Management for roughly 16,323 acres in Las Animas County, on lands managed by the Royal Gorge Field Office.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 25, 2013
News Release: 1,590 DAYS AND COUNTING - WHAT THEY’RE SAYING ON KEYSTONE
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2013
News Release: Defendant Was a Choir Teacher at Cross Timbers Middle School in Grapevine, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2013
News Release: In Austin this morning, brothers Hussein Ali “Mike" Yassine, age 40, and Hadi Ali Yassine, age 36, were sentenced to 151 months and 60 months in federal prison, respectively, for their roles in a money laundering scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2013
News Release: Andersonville National Historic Site is proud to announce a series of programs throughout the month of February in honor of Black History Month.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Richard Mendoza, 22, of Lubbock, Texas, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 135 months in federal prison and a 15-year term of supervised release, following his guilty plea in October 2012 to one count of receipt of child pornography. He has been in custody since his arrest in August 2012. Today’s announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2013
News Release: John Burke, a longtime associate of the Gambino organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra (the “Gambino family"), was sentenced today to life imprisonment without parole plus 10 years for the murder of a rival drug dealer in aid of racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, and other charges. On June 8, 2012...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Benjamin Grey, 32, of Washington, D.C., was indicted today on federal charges in connection with a scheme in which he posed as a car dealer to defraud individuals and banks of more than $185,000, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., David Beach, Special Agent in Charge of the Washington Field Office of the U.S. Secret Service, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Cedric Lamont Scott, age 39, of Baltimore, today to 183 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for robbery and using a gun in relation to the robbery. Judge Blake also ordered Scott to pay restitution of $1,175.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Matthew M. Hansen was indicted for allegedly attempting to entice minor boys to engage in sexually explicit conduct for him to videotape between 2007 and 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: David Coleman Headley, a U.S. citizen partly of Pakistani descent, was sentenced today to 35 years in prison for a dozen federal terrorism crimes relating to his role in planning the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, and a subsequent proposed attack on a newspaper in Denmark. Headley ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: A federal judge in Cleveland today sentenced William R. Herder of Bellville, Ohio, to 20 months in prison for tax crimes, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Tax Division Kathryn Keneally, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio Stephen M. Dettelbach and Special Agent in Charge, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: A former co-owner of a U.S. civilian contractor company was sentenced today in San Antonio to serve 30 months in prison for falsifying official documents in connection with Iraq reconstruction government contracts, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Robert Pitman for the Western District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: Connie M. Knight, 46, previously of Belle Chasse, La., pleaded guilty in federal court in New Orleans today to three felony criminal charges and one misdemeanor criminal charge for creating false identification documents an impersonating a federal official, announced Ignacia S. Moreno, Assistant Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: The owners of three Miami-area assisted living facilities and an affiliated psychologist were sentenced to prison today in connection with a health care fraud scheme, involving now-defunct Miami-area health provider Health Care Solutions Network Inc. (HCSN), in which Medicare was billed for mental health treatments that were unnecessary or not provided.
By Fed Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the termination of the enforcement action listed below: Farmers and Merchants Bancshares, Inc., Burlington, Iowa Written Agreement dated Feb. 28, 2011 Terminated Jan. 18, 2013 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions. For media inquiries, call 202-452-2955.
By Fed Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced its approval of the application filed by Trustmark Corporation, Jackson, Mississippi, to merge with BancTrust Financial Group, Inc., Mobile, Alabama, and to acquire BancTrust's subsidiary bank, BankTrust, also in Mobile.
