News from July 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A man who entered the United States from Honduras illegally appeared today in federal court on charges of sex trafficking and stalking, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the Ways and Means Committee released bipartisan proposals to reform Medicare. This follows several hearings on Medicare reforms in the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee. The draft legislative text can be found at www.waysandmeans.house.gov/entitlementreform.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology is inviting industry to help address two information technology challenges faced by the energy sector. The center would like feedback on two proposed "use cases" whose solution would provide centralized control of access to structures and systems and reduce security blind spots in their operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that Dakota Mallory Robinson, 24, of Bossier City, La., pleaded guilty Wednesday before U.S. District Judge Tom Stagg to making counterfeit Federal Reserve notes.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) applauded the committee’s unanimous approval today of three nominations: Joseph Nega to serve on the U.S. Tax Court; Judge Michael Thornton to serve a second term on the U.S. Tax Court; and Scott Kieff to be a member of the U.S. International Trade Commission.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that Oliver Lockett, 44, of Lafayette, pleaded guilty Wednesday before U.S. District Judge Richard T. Haik to staging vehicle accidents in order to defraud insurance companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Richard A. Lazzara today sentenced Arlin Troncoso-Pena (33, Sarasota) to 20 years in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 100 grams or more of heroin. The court also ordered Troncoso-Pena to forfeit $3,005, proceeds of the offense. Troncoso-Pena pleaded guilty on March 29, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - David Alan Inman, 51, of Watervliet, Michigan was sentenced on Wednesday, July 24, 2013, to 96 months (eight years) in federal prison for receipt of child pornography videos, U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. announced today. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Nathaniel Chee, Jr., 53, a member and resident of the Mescalero Apache Nation, was sentenced yesterday afternoon to 30 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his abusive sexual contact conviction. Chee will be required to register as a sex offender when he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: DOMINIQUE ADAMS, age 23, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced today in federal court by U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo to 73 months imprisonment for possession with intent to distribute cocaine base, possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking violation, and escape from...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), Charles Gardner, the Commissioner of the Yonkers Police Department, and Joseph A. D’Amico, the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - George Ronald Marion, 67, of Fairfax Station, Va., was sentenced today to 50 months in prison for traveling interstate to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and possessing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that Adlyn Marie Echevarria Robles, 20, Buffalo, N.Y., was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with committing two bank robberies. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was convicted yesterday following a jury trial for a scheme to defraud the Medicare program out of approximately $1 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: Today, Ranking Member John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) of the House Judiciary Committee, joined Congressman John B. Larson (D-Conn.), chairman of the Task Force on Election Reform, and Ranking Member Robert A. Brady (D-Penn.) of the Committee on House Administration, in submitting an Amicus brief to the Supreme ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: Angel Garcia, a/k/a “Angel Ramos," 56, of Philadelphia, PA was charged today by Information with one count of theft of government funds, in connection with his alleged scheme to collect Social Security Administration Supplemental Security Income benefits to which he was not entitled, announced United...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte sentenced David Dobbs, age 55, of Port Republic, Maryland, today to 104 months in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for transporting child pornography. Judge Messitte ordered that 14 months of Dobbs’ sentence be concurrent to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that the remaining two defendants in a foreign worker fraud scheme were sentenced today in Scranton before U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: April Tillman, 47, from Waterloo, was convicted of conspiracy to distribute heroin by a jury on July 24, 2013, after a three-day trial in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: COVINGTON, KY - A financial technician, employed in a Boone County, Kentucky office of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), has been charged with multiple crimes relating to her unauthorized access of an IRS computer, to obtain personal information about tax payers.
