News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Branson, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court to harboring aliens and making false statements after arranging employment contracts for dozens of foreign workers at Branson locations in violation of their visas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Doreen Amiotte, age 48, of Hermosa, South Dakota appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on June 12, 2013 and pled guilty to Misprision of Felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota man convicted of Felon in Possession of a Firearm was sentenced on June 12, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Sent and Received Graphic Images Over the Internet.
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), at the invitation of Joey P. San Nicolas, Attorney General of the NMI, was a judge at the 29th Annual Attorney General’s Cup Speech Competition held on May 3, 2013, in the Supreme Court Courtroom in Saipan, NMI.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: Celebrate summer on Saturday, June 22 with a traditional Midsummer Celebration from 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. and a Summer Solstice Evening Concert from 7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore’s historic Chellberg Farm.
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, was a speaker at the 27th Annual San Diego International Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment, held on January 28-31, 2013. Over 1600 participants were at the Conference from nearly 35 countries.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: HAGATNA, GU -- United States Attorney ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), WAS THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT THE University of Guam’s (UOG) “It’s Happening: Human Trafficking Forum with a Special Emphasis on Sex Trafficking on Guam and Micronesia,"...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Alejandro Navarro-Gonzalez, 31, of Buffalo, N.Y., was convicted after a jury trial of possession with intent to distribute a kilogram or more of heroin and maintaining a drug involved premises. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 20 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $20,000,000 fine.
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, was the keynote speaker at the Soroptimist International of Guam’s 35th Anniversary and the Soroptimist International of the Marianas’ 27th Anniversary Charter Night celebration held on March 8, 2013, at the Sheraton Laguna Guam Resort.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A former East Washington Police Chief has been sentenced in federal court to 135 months imprisonment, followed by three years supervised release on his conviction of Hobbs Act violations, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - ExxonMobil was using a response plan that allowed for increased time to detect and respond to accidents during their pipeline spill in Mayflower, Arkansas in March. The only problem? That response plan had not yet been approved by the agency overseeing pipeline safety, and was only submitted two weeks before the spill that has displaced residents and sullied a neighborhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: South Bend, IN-The United States Attorney's Office announced that a Grand Jury sitting in South Bend, Indiana, returned the following Indictments on June 12, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jonathan Womble, 36, a former corrections officer at the District of Columbia Jail, pled guilty today to a federal charge of conspiracy to commit bribery for accepting $400 in cash in return for smuggling drugs and other contraband into the facility, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - A 29-year-old man was sentenced today to 11 years in prison on a charge of first-degree sexual abuse stemming from an attack he carried out earlier this year against a 13-year-old girl, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Anthony Black, 28, of Mesilla Park, N.M., pleaded guilty this afternoon to an indictment charging him with two counts of distribution of visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Black entered his guilty plea without the benefit of any plea agreement. Black’s guilty plea was announced by U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales and Special Agent in Charge Dennis A. Ulrich, II, of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) El Paso.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: National Park Service Announces End of Muir/Strentzel Gravesite Plan Public Scoping Period.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: OAKLAND, Calif. - Amy Nicole Schloemann, aka Amy Kinney, was sentenced this week to 36 months in prison and ordered to pay $5,805,902 in restitution for her role in a real-estate related wire fraud conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: LEXINGTON, KY - A Winchester, KY., man, accused of distributing heroin to an individual who died of an overdose, made his first appearance in federal court today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) and Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO) today requested the Government Accountability Office (GAO) review the federal government’s mental health programs as well as examine oversight of specific...
