News from June 2013

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County has been sentenced in federal court to five years probation with a condition of six months home detention, and restitution in the amount of $33,988.33 on his conviction of conspiracy to use counterfeit credit cards, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Blackfoot, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Abusive Sexual Contact.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on June 3, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen, WILLIAM SZUDERA, a 76-year-old resident of Havre, pled guilty to mail fraud. Sentencing has been set for Sept. 26, 2013. He is currently released on special conditions.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - U.S. Attorney Robert E. O’Neill announces the return of a multi-count indictment charging Jacksonville residents Troy Solomon (29) and Antonio Gadsden (37) with conspiracy to defraud the government and multiple counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false income tax returns.

By DOL Newswire | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, introduced the Strengthening America’s Schools Act of 2013, a bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), and replace the failed tenets of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). Harkin will hold a markup of the bill, which has been co-sponsored by every Democratic member of the HELP Committee, starting next Tuesday, June 11th.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County man has been sentenced in federal court to 66 months imprisonment and to be followed by 10 years 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 | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Marcos Miranda-Sanchez, age 57, of Rapid City, South Dakota appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Veronica L. Duffy on May 29, 2013 and pled guilty to Illegal Reentry After Deportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. CINCINNATI - Michael E. Peppel, 46, former Chief Executive Officer of MCSi, Inc., a computer sales company formerly headquartered in Dayton, was sentenced in U.S. District Court here today to two years in prison followed by three years of court supervision...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - One resident of La Jolla, Calif., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of sending a threat via email, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Yesterday in federal court in St. Paul, a 23-year-old Minneapolis man pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a.22-caliber pistol. On June 3, 2013, Marcus Rashad Davis specifically pleaded guilty to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Davis, who was indicted on Jan. 22, 2013, entered his plea before United States District Court Judge Susan Richard Nelson.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: Christopher Mailloux, 22, of Reading, Pennsylvania was charged by Indictment, filed today, with two counts of production of child pornography and two counts of possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that John Zdanecis, 78, of Brighton, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Charles G. Siragusa, to mail fraud. the charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - United States Attorney Edward L. Stanton III has released the following statement concerning the shooting in Olive Branch, MS this morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Kodiak man and a woman from Corpus Christi, Texas, were sentenced for their role in embezzling over half a million dollars from Trident Seafoods.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: Michael P. Jackson, 40, of Carmi, Ill., was sentenced yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to serve 72 months in prison for selling the prescription drug known as Adderall, from 2009 to 2012, to a Florida woman who operated an illegal Internet-pharmacy business. Jackson also was sentenced to three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: Richard S. Hartunian, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, announced that JOHN GIBSON, III, age 37, of Oswego, N.Y., pled guilty today to the felony offense of Theft of Government Money, before the Hon. Glenn T. Suddaby in the United States District Court in Syracuse, New York.

By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: The Draft Site Management Plan/ Environmental Assessment for the Blow-Me-Down Farm at Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site is now available for public review and comment. The plan describes important policy directions and statements of desired future conditions at the Blow-Me-Down Farm and presents a...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: WILMINGTON - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today Senior Judge James C. Fox sentenced RON O’NEAL HARGROVE, 37, of Henderson, North Carolina, to 40 months imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release for Retaliating Against a Witness and Aiding and Abetting; and for Possession with the Intent to Distribute a Quantity of Cocaine.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - David Nixon, 48, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged today by Indictment with 81 counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of materially false income tax returns, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.