News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Dragos Ungurean, 30, of Wyomissing, PA, was sentenced today to 63 months in prison for attempting to rob the Wyomissing branch of M & T Bank. He pleaded guilty to the charge on June 27, 2012. On March 19, 2012, Ungurean walked into the bank, at 800 Penn Avenue in Wyomissing, threatened...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DOUG WHITMAN, a portfolio manager at Whitman Capital, LLC, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 24 months in prison for his involvement in two insider trading schemes that earned his firm more...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: More than $600,000 stolen from Medicare based on false claims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Sarah Richenda Richards, age 25, of Rosebud, South Dakota, appeared before United States Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno on Jan. 22, 2013, and pled guilty to Assault by Striking, Beating and Wounding and Simple Assault. The maximum penalty upon conviction on each count is 6 months in custody, a $5,000 fine, or both; and a $10 special assessment.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s nomination today of Richard Cordray to continue leading the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and Mary Jo White to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC):
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: Dear Mr. President: As the Chairmen and Ranking Members of the Committee and Subcommittee in the House of Representatives with primary jurisdiction over Inspectors General (IGs), we are writing to urge you to immediately nominate a qualified, independent, permanent Inspector General for the Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY -- A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City returned an indictment Wednesday afternoon charging Gerrit Timmerman III, 70, of Midvale, Utah, and Carol Sing, 73, of Henderson, Nev., with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States. The indictment was announced by Kathryn Keneally, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah David B. Barlow.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: Small and mid-size manufacturers in Kentucky and South Dakota have new resources to help them create and retain jobs, increase profits, and save time and money, thanks to funding from the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) program.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, incoming Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) with Senators Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) introduced legislation that would allow Washington D.C. full statehood, including full voter representation in Congress for its residents.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: PHOENIX - On Jan. 23, 2013, Loren Kaysang Tahbo, 33, of Parker, Ariz., and a member of the Colorado River Indian Tribes, pleaded guilty in federal district court to second-degree murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: Richard S. Hartunian, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York; Peter J. Smith, United States Attorney, Middle District of Pennsylvania; George L. Piro, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Albany Division - Federal Bureau of Investigation; New York State Police Superintendent Joseph D’Amico;...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: (Albany, New York) - United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced today that the Northern District of New York collected a total of $30,811,828.88 in Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 in civil and criminal actions and forfeitures, comprised of $9,876,524.88 in criminal and civil actions and $20,935,304.00...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Parmelee man was acquitted on two counts of Abusive Sexual Contact as a result of a federal jury trial in Pierre, South Dakota. Randy Never Misses A Shot was indicted by a federal grand jury in November of 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. DAYTON -Charles D. Warren, 38, of Dayton was sentenced today to 156 months in prison for crimes including assaulting an officer by running his car into a car...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Nancy O’Donnell was sentenced to one year and one day in prison for her embezzlement of donor funds. She was also ordered to pay $209,000 restitution, $192,000 has already been paid.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James S. Moody, Jr. sentenced Michael Anthony Moody (28, Clearwater) yesterday to 15 years and nine months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Moody was sentenced under the Armed Career Criminal Act because of his extensive criminal history. Moody pleaded guilty in October 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Richard Paulino, a/k/a Jose Nieves and Jose Ayala, 30, a Dominican national living in Providence, was sentenced today to 57 months in federal prison for possession with the intent to distribute crack cocaine and being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Providence Police Chief Colonel Hugh T. Clements, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: CLEVELAND - Sixteen people were indicted on drug trafficking, illegal firearms and money laundering charges for their roles in an organization that is accused of bringing cocaine, heroin and marijuana from Chicago and selling it in Cleveland, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Robert L. Corso, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: Las Vegas, Nev. - An alleged pimp from the Reno area has been indicted by the federal grand jury on a sex trafficking charge for transporting a 15-year-old girl from Bakersfield, Calif. to Reno, Nev. to work as a prostitute, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a 38-year-old Minneapolis man pleaded guilty to distributing cocaine, crack cocaine, and the semisynthetic psychedelic drug MDPV, commonly known as ecstasy. Antoine Kenyetta Poole specifically pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute...
