News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hudson County, N.J., man was charged today in an Indictment with one count each of possessing and distributing images of child sex abuse over the Internet, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: MANHATTAN - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division Office of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the arrest today of Ji Yun Lee for conspiring to distribute oxycodone and for distribution of oxycodone at a (the “Pharmacy") in Yonkers, New York. Lee will be presented later today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Kevin N. Fox.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Nevada is holding a competitive geothermal lease sale on Tuesday, Jan. 24. The sale room opens at 8 a.m. for registration and bidding numbers and the sale begins at 9 a.m. The sale will be held at BLM State Office, 1340 Financial Blvd., in Reno.To comply with the BLM's...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. COLUMBUS -Todd L. Smith, 50, of Columbus pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to one count of coercion and enticement of minors for sexual activity. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio and Edward J. Hanko...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Western District of Michigan. Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. Williamsburg’s William Lowder Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud and Tax Charges. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - William Edward Lowder, age 57, of Williamsburg, Michigan, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Keith Milke, the Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS"), announced that SPIRO BALTATZIDIS, the former Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Starwich, Inc. (“Starwich")...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A former employee of Atlantic County Concrete and Material Co. admitted today evading federal income taxes on nearly $700,000 she received in 2008, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: The Fraudulent Scheme. Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MARINA ZAYTSEVA was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to one year and one day in prison for her participation in a $57 million fraud scheme that targeted programs administered...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billiings, on Jan. 17, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, DAMIAN JAMES BACKER, a 21-year-old resident of Lame Deer and an enrolled member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, appeared for sentencing. BACKER was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Joseph J. Ostrowski, age 29, of Wilkes-Barre, pleaded guilty today before Senior United States District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik to producing and attempting to produce child pornography, interstate extortion, and cyber stalking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: HUNTSVILLE - A federal jury today convicted a U.S. Army officer for making false statements to a department of the United States and for stealing government property, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and John F. Khin, special agent in charge, Defense Criminal Investigative Service, U.S. Department of Defense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: Hammond, Indiana- The United States Attorney’s Office announced that the following Indictments were returned on Jan. 16, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: Educators and law enforcement to address practical steps against school violence; Pulitzer-prize nominated expert and author to speak.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Joshua Wallace, 39, of Corpus Christi, has been handed a 160-month sentence for his conviction of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today along with Melvin King Jr., special agent in charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Wallace entered a plea of guilty on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Beaver County pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to use counterfeit credit cards, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 240,000 metric tons of soybeans to unknown destinations during the 2013/2014 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: An indictment was filed charging Michael N. Smith, age 57, and Darryl Richardson, age 57, both of Toledo, with conspiracy to commit mail fraud, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - Dante Dowers, 40, of Belle Glade, FL, pled guilty today to aiding and abetting identification fraud in connection with the teacher certification cheating scam directed by ringleader Clarence Mumford, Sr., 59, of Memphis, announced United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - Over 300 federal, state and local law enforcement officers carried out arrests and executed search warrants early this morning in Operation Concord, a large-scale collaborative investigation into the violence and distribution of drugs by the Woodward Avenue and Hendry Street gangs and their associates who terrorized the residents in Bowdoin-Geneva section of Dorchester and the Uphams Corner section of Roxbury.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Yesterday in federal court, two men from northern Minnesota were indicted in connection with the Dec. 10, 2012, armed robbery of the First State Bank of Bigfork, located in Kelliher, Minnesota. Cody Lowell Troy, age 19, of Mizpah, and Travis Michael Burns, age 20, of Bemidji, were charged...
