News from January 2013
By DOE Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, will hold an on-the-record pen & pad session with reporters on Wednesday, Jan. 23, to discuss her recent trip to Asia. The pen & pad session will be held in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s library (enter through Senate Dirksen-370) at 11 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Brothers Jose Tirado, 38, and Victor Tirado, 36, both of Philadelphia, were charged by indictment, unsealed today, in a tax fraud conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger and IRS Special Agent-in-Charge Akeia Conner. Jose Tirado, an officer in the 25th District of the Philadelphia Police Department, was arrested this morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on Jan. 17, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, ROBERT JOHN HANLON, age 40, and RACHAEL MARIE HANLON, age 24, residents of Roundup, appeared for sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Baltimore Police officer Kendell Richburg, age 36, of Baltimore, on gun and drug conspiracy charges. The indictment was returned on Jan. 17, 2013, and unsealed today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Dennis M. Caroni, age 38 of Los Angeles, CA, Dr. Gerard M. DiLeo, age 61 of Bradenton, FL, and Dr. Joseph G. Pastorek, II, age 62 of Slidell, LA, were sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Casey Rodgers for their roles in running illegal pill mill pain clinics in Pensacola...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -Today, Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa expressed deep concern about President Barack Obama’s nomination of B. Todd Jones to serve as the permanent Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) within the Justice Department. The Chairman’s objections stem from the Committee’s investigation of Operation Fast and Furious. Jones has served as the Acting Director of ATF since Aug. 30, 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Jan. 18, 2013, Sancehez E. Smotherman, 36, of St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced to 41 months in prison for Possession of Counterfeit Currency, Resisting or Impeding the U.S. Secret Service...
By State Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that on Wednesday, January 23 at 2 p.m. he will convene a hearing entitled, “Terrorist Attack in Benghazi: The Secretary of State’s View." Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be the sole witness...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 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, and Manuel Orosa, Chief, City of Miami Police Department (MPD), announced the conviction of Raul Iglesias, 40...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: Defendant Ordered to Pay $269,282.00 in Restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Darius Smith, 21, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 19 years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman during a burglary at a store in Northeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Daniel Blue, age 30, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison followed by eight years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess and possession with intent to distribute heroin. Blue was convicted of those charges by a federal jury on June 22, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CID), announced that defendant David Bradman, 54, of Miami, pled guilty today to one count of making a false U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: Pound Quantities Of Marijuana Sold To Those With No Medical Authorization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - IRS employee Antonio Keith Willabus, age 47, of Laurel, Maryland pleaded guilty today to falsely certifying on his time and attendance records that he worked 353.1 hours in 2012 when in fact he had not.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Lynn Farrell Smith, 62, of Stockton, pleaded guilty today to federal marijuana charges that include conspiracy to manufacture and distribute marijuana, two counts of manufacturing marijuana and six counts of distributing marijuana from storefronts in Stockton and Sacramento, Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - A former Chicago man was taken into custody after he was sentenced today to 12 years in federal prison for an investment and tax fraud scheme in which he swindled 57 investors, some of whom he had purported to befriend, of just under $8 million and failed to pay nearly $1.5 million in federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 53-year-old Woodbury woman was sentenced for using an alternative identity to receive, among other things, more than $18,000 in Low Income Housing Tax Credits (“LIHTC") from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD").
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - In the wake of the January 8, 2011 shooting here in Tucson, and other mass shooting incidents in this country since then, culminating with the school shooting in Connecticut last month, the political climate for a constructive discussion about gun control appears to be more favorable...
