News from July 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: Stole Tools and Scaffolding Which He Sold at Pawn Shops in Baltimore, Anne Arundel and Queen.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: An Indictment Is A Formal Accusation Of Criminal Conduct, Not Evidence. A Defendant Is Presumed Innocent Unless And Until Convicted Through Due Process Of Law.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: A grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging Cleven Thomas, aka Cleveland Thomas, age 69, with one count of making false statements in application for a passport and one count of making false statements to a federal agency, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Florida: Stephen Shelley will display his photography in Everglades National Park’s Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center Gallery during the month of July. His favorite subject is the Florida Everglades and the Florida Keys where he spends hours wading through cypress domes or mangroves swamps looking...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Tommy T. Branch, 22, of Fort Washington, Md., was sentenced today to 24 ½ years in prison for a pair of attacks last summer, including one in which a man was severely beaten with a baseball bat, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston woman with ties to a Detroit pill supplier pleaded guilty today to a federal oxycodone charge, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Christy Stevens, 31, pleaded guilty in federal court in Charleston to conspiracy to distribute oxycodone. On July 6, 2011, police conducted...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: PHOENIX. - Guy Andrew Williams, 42, and Brent F. Williams, 66, both of Mesa, Ariz., were convicted by a federal jury in Phoenix on June 28, 2013, of 38 counts of conspiracy, wire fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering. The two-week trial was conducted by U.S. District Judge Jack Zouhary, a visiting judge from the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Westmoreland County has been sentenced in federal court to 28 months imprisonment, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, on his conviction of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Vongphanet J. “Joe" Siharath, 40, of Bossier City, La., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote to 41 months in prison with five years of supervised release for bank fraud. He was also ordered to pay $1,057,949 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Terry Lee O’Brien, 53, of Boise, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 66 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. O’Brien appeared this morning before U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge at the federal courthouse in Boise.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Paul David Hite, 58, an anesthesiologist from Midlothian, Va., was sentenced today to 22 years in prison and fined $500,000 on two federal charges of attempting to entice a minor to engage in illicit sexual activity, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management seeks public comment on a preliminary Environmental Assessment for an oil and gas exploration project in Mesa County.
By State Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC- U.S. Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement regarding Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay’s accusation that “diaspora Jews" are behind the recent protests in Turkey.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: Concealed Nearly $4m in Business Receipts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - United States Attorney Pamela C. Marsh announced that the sentencing of four Floridians by Chief U. S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers concluded today with the last defendant. William Scott Folk (36) and Christopher Jesse Lee (35) both currently incarcerated with the Florida Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: EUGENE, OREGON- On January 8, 2013, Tamara Diane Brown, 41, of Eugene, Oregon, pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud in U.S. District Court in Eugene, admitting her involvement in a scheme to sell illegally obtained cellphones through the internet. Today she was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison and ordered to pay restitution to the victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: Two people were indicted on unrelated cases of illegal reentering the United States following deportation, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Jay Kevin Perry, 38, of Phoenix, Ariz., was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Paul G. Rosenblatt to 44 months in prison for engaging in a bankruptcy fraud scheme that targeted elderly investors. Another hearing before Judge Rosenblatt, to resolve the nearly $1 million in restitution claims filed against Perry, is currently scheduled for August 6, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that it has reached an agreement with Vincent Porcaro Inc. (VPI) resolving allegations that the company violated the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). VPI is a Rhode Island company that provides warehousing, distribution, light assembly and packaging for regional, national and international companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that 55 hospitals located throughout 21 states have agreed to pay the United States a total of more than $34,000,000 to settle allegations that the health care facilities submitted false claims to Medicare for kyphoplasty procedures. Kyphoplasty is a minimally-invasive procedure used to treat certain spinal fractures that often are due to osteoporosis.
