News from June 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., will convene a hearing next Tuesday to explore processes to reorganizing and reinventing government.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces that Louis Thomas Caputo (78, Sarasota) pleaded guilty to extortionate collection of debt. Caputo faces a maximum penalty of twenty years in federal prison. Caputo was indicted in November 2012. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Aug. 21, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Jacob H. Lehnherr, age 38, of Little Rock, Arkansas appeared before U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier on June 10, 2013 and pled guilty to Failure to Pay Legal Child Support.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Marcus Mickle, 21, of Columbia, S.C., has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for a conspiracy related to cocaine and marijuana trafficking and for possessing a firearm during in and in relation to a drug trafficking crime, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Nicole Jenise Stevenson, age 31, of Baltimore, today to three years in prison, followed by nine months of home detention as part of five years of supervised release, for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. Judge Bennett also...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a man from Anchorage was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for his role in an Anchorage and Fairbanks drug conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - David Russo, age 62, of Hagerstown, Maryland pleaded guilty today to health care fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid by billing for prescriptions that Russo knew were not written for a legitimate medical purpose.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: Joshua Edmond Klosowski, 27, of Bay City, Michigan, was sentenced to a 262 month prison sentence by U.S. District Judge Thomas L. Ludington yesterday in federal court in Bay City, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) generated $862,183 during its quarterly oil and gas competitive lease sale held in Reno on June 11, selling 33 parcels that comprised 53,923 acres. The sale high bid of $200,000 for a 1,600-acre parcel at $125 per acre was made by The Blanco Company, for a parcel in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - The U.S. Attorney’s Office has asked a federal judge to dismiss one of 10 defendants from a drug-trafficking conspiracy indictment returned in April and unsealed in May following the arrests of all the defendants, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: Rita Marie Strickland, 57, was sentenced to a custodial sentence of a year and a day by U.S. District Judge Thomas L. Ludington yesterday in federal court in Bay City, Michigan, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: LAS VEGAS -The leader of a group of Californians who were stealing information from bank card readers and ATM’s in order to make counterfeit cards, has been sentenced to 81 months in prison and ordered to pay almost $30,000 in restitution for his guilty pleas to conspiracy and aggravated identity theft charges, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: Cañon City, Colo. - Fire officials announced this evening that U.S. HWY 50 was reopened as of 8 p.m. All residents that were displaced from their homes during the evacuation from the Royal Gorge Fire were allowed to return home this evening at 8 p.m. Officials cautioned residents in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: Earlier this month the U.S. Department of Justice released a report to Congress entitled Indian Country Investigations and Prosecutions, which was compiled from U.S. Attorney’s Offices and FBI crime data from reservations and which shows a 54 percent increase in Indian Country criminal prosecutions nationwide since Fiscal Year 2009.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: Due to heavy rains this week the Delaware River level as measured at Montague, New Jersey, is currently at 11.79 feet. It is predicted to rise to 13.7 feet before cresting at 8:00 p.m. this evening. The river level at the Montague gauge normally measures between five and six feet this time of year. It is running seven to eight vertical feet higher than normal and the water temperature is in the fifties.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: Santa Fe, NM - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is releasing a Final Environmental Impact Statement (Final EIS) that provides a comprehensive analysis of potential environmental impacts for the proposed SunZia Southwest Transmission Line Project in New Mexico and Arizona, and identifies a preferred...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: A former business agent and trustee of Teamsters Local 337 was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Detroit on bribery and conspiracy charges, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade. McQuade was joined in the announcement by Special Agent in Charge James Vanderberg, Department of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Robert Jacaman Sr. and his son have been indicted by a federal grand jury for receipt or possession of unregistered firearm, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), was invited by the Honorable Ramona V. Manglona, Chief Judge of the District Court of the Northern Mariana Islands, to be the keynote speaker at the Naturalization Ceremony held...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Jennifer Ellen Marie Rodriguez, 31, a U.S. citizen residing in Reynosa, Mexico, has been ordered to prison for 188 months for trafficking more than 10 kilograms of methamphetamine, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. A federal jury in Corpus Christi convicted Rodriguez on Friday, Jan. 18, 2013, following a three-day trial and less than an hour of deliberation.
