News from January 2013
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 U.S. Magistrate Judge Carolyn S. Ostby, the following individual was arraigned.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - U.S. District Judge Michael W. Mosman today sentenced John Witty, 67, of Portland, to pay a $206,844 fine and serve five years probation, for lying to the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) about being a service-disabled veteran. Witty will also be required to perform 100 hours of community service at a veterans' organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Mission resident Jose Alaniz-Allen, 22, has entered a plea of guilty to one count of receipt of child pornography, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Jan. 30, 2013, Freddie Matthew Sergent, 30, of Telford, Tenn., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to unlawfully distributing anabolic steroids. Sentencing has been set for 9:00 am on Aug. 12, 2013. Sergent faces up to 10 years in prison and a $500,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Armando C. Gutierrez and Joseph C. Kupfer Found Guilty of Stealing $2,500,993 in Federal "Help America Vote Act" Funds.
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. 30, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, AMASA PINCKNEY NILES, IV, a 41-year-old resident of Billings, appeared for sentencing. NILES was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - An indictment and three separate informations, unsealed today, charge nine elected judges along with three other individuals in a fraud conspiracy that allegedly involved frequent and pervasive “ticket-fixing" at the Philadelphia Traffic Court. The defendants participated in a widespread culture of giving breaks on traffic citations to friends, family, the politically-connected, and business associates. The defendants include.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 46-year-old Scranton resident pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo to attempting to entice a minor to engage in illegal sexual conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: MANHATTAN - - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division; Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor; Raymond W. Kelly New York City Police Commissioner; James C. Cox Medicaid Inspector General; Nirav R. Shah, M.D., New York State Commissioner...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Antonio Daniel McGhee of Essex, Md. was sentenced today to a total of 244 months in prison. McGhee was convicted by a federal jury on June 22, 2012, on charges of conspiracy to commit robbery, robbery, carjacking, and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Officials in the Bureau of Land Management Eastern States office announced their intention today, to extend an internal review period of the Environmental Assessment (EA) for the equestrian barn at the Meadowood Special Recreation Management Area in Lorton, Va. This review is being extended for a minimum of 30 days.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Robert E. O’Neill announces the arrest and unsealing of a federal indictment charging Georges Jean-Philippe (48, Tampa), a/k/a Benedique Jean-Philippe, with making false statements in connection with his naturalization application. Special agents from U.S. Immigration...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that James R. Nelson, 56, was sentenced in the United States District Court in Omaha for failure to register as a sex offender. The Honorable Lyle E. Strom, Senior District Court Judge, sentenced Nelson to 2 years in prison. After his release from prison Nelson will begin a 5 year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Samara Y. Henderson, 25, and Marlow S. Favors, 34, both of Tampa, Florida, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Nashville today in a 9-count indictment charging conspiracy, mail fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced Jerry E. Martin, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Armando Duenez has entered a plea of guilty to conspiracy to export firearms and failure to appear, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Duenez, 31, who entered the plea late yesterday afternoon, was employed as a police officer with the Rio Hondo Police Department during the offense.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Hatch) refuted Senate Democrats’ dubious deficit reduction claims, likening their data to “Enron accounting.".
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), today announced that Jeremy Symons will join her EPW team as Deputy Staff Director. He will focus on environmental issues, including clean water, air quality, wildlife, and climate change.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: MARSHALL, Mo. - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has recognized the employees and management of Monsanto Co. Marshall Corn Research Station in Marshall, Mo., for excellence in the company's employee safety and health program. The Marshall Corn Research Station facility has been designated a "star," the highest honor in OSHA's Voluntary Protection Programs.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today marks 15 years since the federal government has defaulted on its legal responsibility to store our nation’s nuclear waste. According to the law, the Department of Energy was supposed to begin accepting nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain by Jan. 31, 1998. Since then, 76 lawsuits...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. - Christopher B. Berg of Portola Valley, Calif., entered a plea of guilty yesterday to willful failure to file the required report of foreign bank account (FBAR) for an account he controlled at United Bank of Switzerland AG (UBS), United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
