News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on Jan. 22, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, Cenex Harvest States, Inc., (CHS Inc.) was fined $500,000 for failure to report a release of a hazardous substance. In addition, CHS will make a $50,000 payment to the Phillips County Rural.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2013
News Release: US Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Valentine, Nebraska, man convicted of Assaulting a Federal Officer was sentenced on Jan. 17, 2013, by US District Judge Roberto A. Lange. Blake Bordeaux, age 22, was sentenced to 148 days in custody with credit for time served and $25 to the Victim Assistance Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2013
News Release: A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Brandon Laster, age 30, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, with four counts of bank robbery, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Jose Aguirre-Nunez, 46, the head of an extensive alien smuggling organization operating in and around Starr County to Harris County, Texas, has been sentenced to a total of 150 months in federal prison, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Another defendant, Higinio Barrientos-Perez, 43, who was a caretaker of the aliens while being held at a stash house in Roma, will be sentenced this Thursday.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 22, 2013
News Release: Gateway presents "Hurricane Sandy: Before and After," a photo exhibit (Web-exhibit; BIG file; takes a while to load, be patient) featuring the effects of Hurricane Sandy on the park. The exhibit will open from 3-5 P.M. on Sunday, January 27 at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center in Queens.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2013
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Janice W. Holland, 42, of Suffolk, Va., was sentenced today to 51 months in prison for health care fraud and alteration of records, and a mandatory consecutive sentence of 24 months in prison for aggravated identity theft, for a total sentence of 75 months. She was also ordered to pay restitution to the Virginia Medicaid program in the amount of $630,339.30.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 22, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) introduced legislation, the American Liberty Restoration Act, repealing the individual insurance mandate that is a central tenet of the President’s health care law. This legislation garnered the support of 30 Senators in the 112th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury in Buffalo has returned a five-count indictment charging Nina Jafari, a licensed clinical social worker, 62, of Amherst, N.Y., with health care fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 22, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - For well over the past century perhaps the single best and most common way to depict wars in the history of the United States has been through film. "A Cinematic Salute - America Goes to War" is scheduled on the second Wednesday of every other month beginning Feb. 13, 2013. Feature films and documentaries will be presented in the Armory Museum theatre at 7pm and are free of charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Christopher A. Crofts announced today that on Jan. 18, 2013, Echo Pocatilla, a 30-year-old enrolled Shoshoni-Bannock from Ft. Hall, Idaho, appeared in Federal District Court for sentencing before United States District Judge Scott Skavdahl on a single count of assault resulting...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2013
News Release: Fairbanks, Alaska-U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that an Arizona man was sentenced in federal court in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Friday, Jan. 18, for two counts of drug trafficking.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 22, 2013
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) today announced the appointments of the panel’s six subcommittee vice chairmen.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska B U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a man from Las Vegas was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for one count of Interstate Travel to Promote Prostitution. Brandon Michael Gadson traveled to Anchorage in July of 2010, with three women, the youngest of whom was...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2013
News Release: U.S. Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Parmelee man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Emmanuel Amankwa, a passenger who was transiting San Francisco International Airport (SFO) on his way out of the country, pleaded guilty last week to possessing with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Alejandro Mendoza, 19, of Pharr, has been handed a federal prison sentence for making false statements in the acquisition of firearms from Federal Firearms Licensees (FFL), commonly known as straw purchasing, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today along with Melvin King, special agent in charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Mendoza pleaded guilty Aug. 31, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Otha Royal Palmer, age 58, of Hagerstown, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release for possession of child pornography. Judge Bennett ordered that upon his release from prison, Palmer must register as a sex offender in the place where he resides, where he is an employee, and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Joseph McDaniels, 43, of Shoreline, Wash., was sentenced today in U.S. District Court for interstate transportation of a 22 year old woman for purposes of prostitution. Judge James L. Robart sentenced McDaniels to 10 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Requirements...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Former Fort Deposit, Ala., police officer Carlos Tyson Bennett, 37, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Mark Fuller to 37 months in prison, two years of supervised release and ordered to pay $500 in restitution. Bennett was sentenced for stealing money from motorists during traffic stops, with another former Fort Deposit police officer, Jessie Alan Fuller, on Interstate 65 in 2009.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Guy A. Bax, 66, of Niagara Falls, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara, to corruptly accepting gratuities in connection with his role as the Building Commissioner for the City of Niagara Falls. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
