News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Gary and Marladeen Jokela of Valdez, Alaska, were sentenced for willfully evading Gary Jokela’s tax liabilities for more than a decade. U.S. District Court Judge H. Russel Holland sentenced Gary Jokela to one year in federal prison. Marladeen Jokela was sentenced to six months in federal prison, followed by six months of home confinement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Hungarian man was sentenced today for conspiring to commit money-laundering and using a counterfeit passport in a scheme to sell vehicles over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Patricia Delorenzo, age 59, of Milford, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today in Scranton to Health Care Fraud charges before U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: James Johnson Faces Possible Prison Term.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: Treated wastewater solids called biosolids are sometimes used by farmers to boost soil nutrient levels. Now research by a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist provides new information about how long those plant nutrients remain after biosolids have been applied to the soil.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: Complaint Charges Angel Rivas with Using a Laser Pointer to Direct a Laser Beam at a Commercial Airliner Headed for JFK Airport and a Police Helicopter.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: U.S. District Judge James S. Gwin sentenced Trang Doan Hoang, 37, and Quoc-Thang Ngo Mai, 39, both of Conneaut, Ohio, in connection with their recent conviction for trafficking in counterfeit merchandise, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: U.S. House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin C. Peterson, D-Minn., today announced that the Democratic Caucus has appointed Connecticut Second District Congressman Joe Courtney to serve on the House Agriculture Committee for the 113th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: Purchased “Throw Away" Cars and Used Shotguns, Rifles and Handguns to Steal $765,000 and Six Dunbar Employee Handguns.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, today called out the Obama Administration for not meeting obligations of informing the public and Congress of its regulatory agenda. Specifically, Vitter wants answers from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) who failed to release their mandated regulatory flexibility agenda for an unprecedented eight months.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, announced today that a.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: OAKLAND, Calif. - Today, Van Do Nguyen was sentenced to 72 months in prison and Loc Huynh was sentenced to 87 months for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute marijuana, possession with the intent to distribute marijuana, and being felons in possession of firearms, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael B. Steinbach, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, Jose A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and Marlies...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Martin man convicted of Distribution a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Jan. 3, 2013, by Chief U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken. David Alan Gotheridge, age 55, was sentenced to 2 years' probation and a $100 special assessment to the victims' assistance fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Indiana County pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, as well as charges of mail fraud and tax fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: In Austin, federal authorities announced the indictment and arrest this morning of 56-year-old Russell Allen Erxleben for allegedly running a Ponzi scheme that generated more than $2 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Lewis Jackson, 36, of Atlanta, Ga., who formerly did contract work as a medical doctor at the District of Columbia Jail, has pled guilty to a felony charge stemming from a sexual assault of an inmate, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces that Jessy Paliyath Peter (55, Lakeland) today pleaded guilty to theft of government funds and making a false statement to obtain federal employee's compensation. She faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: BOISE - U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced that Jesus Guadalupe Sanchez a/k/a Jose Salazar, 31, a Mexican national, Michael Dennis Morris, 42, of Ontario, Oregon, and Jim Allen Loveland, 56, of Boise, Idaho, were convicted in United States District Court yesterday of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Deairich R. Hunter, 47, an attorney from Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to a federal charge stemming from his theft of $109,830 in payments from insurance companies that were intended to settle some of his clients’ disability and personal injury claims.
