News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: LONDON, KY - A London, KY., physician was sentenced today to 18 months in prison to be followed by six months of home incarceration for evading federal income taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: The director of a Cleveland non-profit organization pleaded guilty today to withholding taxes from employees but not paying them over to the government, said Steven M. Dettelbach, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Dennis Bloom, age 58, of Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to tax fraud before U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani in Scranton.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Springfield, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet. Benjamin Orona, 31, of Springfield...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: BENJAMIN BENNETT, age 23, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty in federal court today before U. S. District Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud relating to a fraudulent application he made or caused to be made to the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) for financial assistance during the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Krisohn Adakai, 21, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Beclabito, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to a second degree murder charge under an agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Under the terms of the plea agreement, Adakai will be sentenced to 11 years in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Certified Public Accountant with an office in Clifton, N.J., and one of his clients were arrested this morning by federal agents for allegedly trying to bribe an IRS revenue agent to reduce the client’s tax liability of more than $900,000, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A father and son who ran a mortgage loan fraud scheme that succeeded in obtaining $4.4 million in mortgage loans while masquerading as a foreclosure rescue operation were both sentenced to prison today, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City returned an indictment Wednesday afternoon charging Dick Reid Jenkins, a resident of Heber City, Utah with 18 counts of presenting false claims to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Eric Chambers, age 42, of Harrisburg, was convicted Wednesday, in federal court, for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon following a two-day trial before U.S. District Court Judge William W. Caldwell. The jury deliberated approximately 30 minutes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 46-year-old man from Hanover, Minnesota, pleaded guilty to making false statements in matters within the jurisdiction of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA") regarding the levels of toxic pollutants in the industrial wastewater discharged...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: NICOLE NICHOLAS, age 39, a resident of Slidell, Louisiana, was charged in a bill of information today with forgery, announced U. S. Attorney Dana Boente. According to court documents, the defendant was employed by Company "A" from 1999 until June 22, 2010. NICHOLAS was in charge of the accounting, banking...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: Today, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee held a full committee hearing on H.R. 2278, the “Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act" (The SAFE Act). After hearing from a panel of witnesses, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) issued this statement critical of the bill under consideration...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: - Former pharmacy employee charged in the conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: Today, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee held a full committee Oversight Hearing on the Federal Bureau of Investigation. During his opening remarks, Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) delivered the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Alton B. Couther, III, 31, of Norfolk, Va., was sentenced today to 180 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for two firearms charges stemming from a volatile altercation with law enforcement last fall. Couther was also ordered to pay $7,571.75 in restitution to Geico Auto Insurance in connection with a vehicle he totaled during the commission of his offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Stuart C. Cole, 58, of St Pete Beach, Florida, Mark C. Simpson, 50, of Lake Park, Georgia, and Stephanie M. Simpson, 30, of Lake Park, Georgia, were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury sitting in Macon, Georgia on...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in (SAC), Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and David B. Short, Sheriff, St. Johns Sheriff’s (SJSO), announce the results of an 18 months investigation involving several methamphetamine trafficking organizations in the St. Johns County...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) released the following statement in response to a new postal reform proposal, produced by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSE DeJESUS, also known as “Flaco," 29, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 57 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin.
