News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: Las Vegas, Nev. - A former resident of Las Vegas who defrauded 17 individuals of almost $1.5 million in an investment fraud and marketing scheme involving early mortgage payoffs, was sentenced today to just over eight years in prison for his guilty pleas to fraud and tax evasion charges, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hudson County, N.J., pediatrician was arrested at his home this morning for fraudulently billing Medicaid $900,000 for wound-repair treatments on children that were never rendered, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury in Buffalo returned a 17 count indictment charging Sheri L. Becirovic, 46, of Hamburg, N.Y., with conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to file fraudulent tax returns, filing a fraudulent tax return...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh was sentenced in federal court on Jan. 15, 2013, to 262 months incarceration on his conviction of federal firearms offense, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA- A federal grand jury has returned a four-count indictment charging Donyel James Fitts, 28, of Sneads, with manufacturing child pornography. The indictment was announced today by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) today announced the Committee will hold its Organizational Meeting at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, in 2167 Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that a member of a Carbon County-based drug trafficking conspiracy was sentenced Tuesday by Senior U. S. District Court Judge James M. Munley to 39 months in prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: Superintendent Barclay Trimble announced today the scheduled prescribed burn for the Bodie Island unit of Cape Hatteras National Seashore has been postponed.The public meeting, scheduled to take place on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013 at the Nags Head Fire Station 16 in South Nags Head, has been cancelled.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: Human Trafficking Rescue Project. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri Kansas City, Mo., announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to child sex trafficking and producing child pornography, which was discovered...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: Martin Luther King Holiday Celebration at National Lakeshore.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Kenneth D. Broncheau, 48, of Winchester, Idaho, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Coeur d’Alene for first degree murder, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. An initial appearance in federal court has not been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - A federal jury today found Courtnee Nicole Brantley (24, Seffner) guilty of misprision of felony in regard to the shooting deaths of Tampa Police Department Officers David Curtis and Jeffrey Kocab by convicted felon Dontae Morris. The verdict is a result of Brantley’s knowledge of a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-A federal indictment unsealed earlier today charges a 33-year-old Red Lake man with endangering the health of a baby. On January 8, 2013, Chad Joseph Sumner was charged with one count of child endangerment. The indictment was unsealed following Sumner’s initial appearance in court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: Joel Valencia Salazar Owns Primo Produce in Dallas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh has been sentenced in federal court to 188 months imprisonment followed by three years supervised release on his conviction of distributing information relating to explosives with the intent that it be used for a crime of violence, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: DENVER - James P. Burg, age 61, formerly of Fairplay, Colorado, faces fraud charges related to a scheme to defraud gold coin investors, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the FBI, the IRS-CI and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced. Burg was indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver on November 6...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON-Twenty-eight freshman and veteran lawmakers, led by Oversight Committee freshman Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), today announced the introduction of H.R. 273, a bill to overturn President Obama’s December 27th executive order giving federal employees an across the board pay hike. The President’s executive order will cost taxpayers $11 billion in new spending over the next ten years. The bill will be considered on the House floor next week.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: An East St. Louis man pled guilty in federal district court on Jan. 16, 2013, to an Indictment charging him with the unlawful possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Leon Obame, 45, of Raleigh, N.C., was sentenced today to 21 months in prison for assaulting the ambassador of Gabon during a demonstration in December 2011 at the Gabonese Embassy, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Agoura Hills man who used his business to defraud dozens of victims in a multi-million dollar investment scheme has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison.
