News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal jury on Thursday convicted a Birmingham tax-preparer for aiding and abetting the filing of false income tax returns, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and IRS Criminal Investigation Division Acting Special Agent in Charge Veronica Hyman-Pillot.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Nobryan McGee, 24, of Plain Dealing, La., pled guilty on Wednesday to traveling across state lines and failing to register as a convicted sex offender. In March 2006, McGee was convicted in Benton, La. of simple rape, and in May of 2012, McGee relocated from Caddo Parish to Hot Springs, Ark., without properly registering as a sex offender in Louisiana and Arkansas.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: On December 4th, 2012, Steven Sieren was fined for engaging in a business operation in Zion National Park without a permit. Mr. Sieren paid a $500 fine for illegal guiding in the park and may be denied a Commercial Use Authorization in the future.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Timothy Gaines 20, of Portland, Oregon, was sentenced yesterday by U. S. District Judge Michael Simon to 63 months in prison, to be followed by a three-year term of supervised release, for felon in possession of a firearm. This sentence represents the high-end of the sentencing range (51-63 months).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a 38-year-old woman pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining more than $29,000 in Social Security benefits. Dora White, who is incarcerated at the Shakopee Women’s Prison, pleaded guilty to one count of theft of government funds. White, who was charged on Dec. 27, 2012, entered her plea before United States District Court Judge Richard H. Kyle.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: South Bend, Indiana -- The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Meseret Terefe, 37, of Silver Spring, Md., was sentenced today to 20months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for stealing approximately $487,000 of visitor parking fees belonging to the Smithsonian Institution’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Kevin Wirth Jannell, 49, of Fredericksburg, Va., was sentenced today to 24 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for taking more than $350,000 in bribes to ensure a Virginia Railway Express (VRE) subcontractor would be retained by VRE.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Derrick M. Mendez, 22, who pleaded guilty in October 2012 to one count of receiving child pornography, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 121 months in federal prison, to be followed by a 10-year term of supervised release. Mendez, a former member of the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La.: United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Jason Daniel Scott, 30, of New Iberia, La., was sentenced to serve 235 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography. The sentence was handed down this week by U.S. District Judge Richard T. Haik in federal court in Lafayette, La. In addition to the prison term, the judge also sentenced Scott to 10 years of supervised release, following confinement.
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: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Michael A. Taschetta, 54, of Akron, N.Y., with possession of child pornography. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jacqueline Bontzolakes, 38, of Tonawanda, N.Y., who was convicted after a jury trial of international parental kidnaping and making a false statement on a passport application, was sentenced to 18 months in prison, by U.S. District Judge Bill Wilson.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: Under the voluntary program, formalized by a Memorandum of Agreement, members of the U.S. Power Squadrons scan water and land areas, looking for changing conditions that may not be reflected on NOAA nautical charts. Power Squadrons members submit their reports online, and NOAA cartographers review and incorporate changes to their navigation products.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Juan Ramon Ibarra Jr., 30, of Laredo, has been convicted for his role in a conspiracy to transport five kilograms or more of cocaine and international money laundering, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - A Joliet man is facing an agreed maximum 10-year prison sentence after pleading guilty today to a federal civil rights crime for setting fire to the home of an African- American family on his street in 2007. The defendant, BRIAN JAMES MOUDRY, admitted that at approximately 4 a.m. on June 17...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: On Tuesday, January 22nd at 2:00 p.m., the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), will hold a full committee organizational meeting in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: Defendant Knowingly Laundered Tens of Thousands of Dollars in Supposed Drug Trafficking Proceeds.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: For most Americans, neutron spin-polarization filter cells are a relatively rare topic of conversation. Yet these exotic devices are essential to instruments that reveal the nature of certain kinds of magnetic materials - information that may play a major role in future technologies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that an indictment charging two New Jersey residents for conspiring to defraud the United States, using false documents and making false statements in connection with a Monroe County residence mortgage loan insured...
