News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Three men arrested in January for various drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracies have been ordered to federal prison, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Ignacio Pena aka “Nacho," 44, Raul Leal Martinez aka “Indio" or “Wahoo," 36, and, David Pete...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: U.S. House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin C. Peterson, D-Minn., today made the following statement after the House of Representatives failed to approve a new farm bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Michael Wellington Logan, 52, of Clermont, Fl., was convicted late yesterday by a federal jury on all 11 counts with which he was charged including conspiracy, wire fraud, and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that on June 20, 2013, Alex Lee Salway, age 54, of Martin, South Dakota was found guilty by a federal jury in U.S. District Court on two counts of Distribution of a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Three men arrested in January for various drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracies have been ordered to federal prison, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Javier Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Ignacio Pena aka “Nacho," 44, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on June 20, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, HEATHER LOUISE MANYEN, a 32-year-old resident of Laurel, was sentenced to a term of.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: The International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) has awarded the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) an "Authorized Provider" accreditation. IACET Authorized Providers are the only organizations approved to offer IACET Continuing Education Units (CEUs), which certify that IACET has evaluated the NIST OWM training program and found it to be compliant with internationally accepted standards.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the former public administrator of Jasper County, Mo., was sentenced in federal court today for document fraud, which was part of a scheme in which she illegally obtained federal benefits for her public wards.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - Twenty-three defendants are facing federal narcotics charges for their alleged roles in supplying and distributing wholesale quantities of heroin and cocaine in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, local and federal law enforcement officials announced today. An investigation led by the Chicago...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: NEWNAN, Ga. - Arthur W. Singleton has been sentenced to two years in prison for fraudulently obtaining several government construction contracts reserved for veterans with service-related disabilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: A Toledo man was found guilty by a jury on two counts of sex trafficking of children, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Donald J. Cazayoux, Jr., announced that MATTHEW KEITH, age 36, pled guilty yesterday before Chief United States District Court Judge Brian Jackson to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud the State of Louisiana’s Motion...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Jemery Hodges, 26, a Jackson native residing in Cambridge, Massachusetts, pled guilty in federal court today to human trafficking of a minor child and the production of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Raymond R. Parmer, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of ICE Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - James Arthur Abney, 53, of San Angelo, Texas, appeared today in federal court in Lubbock, Texas, and pleaded guilty, before U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings, to one count of possession of child pornography. Abney, who remains in custody, faces a maximum statutory sentence of 10 years...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Mary Michelle Thompson, age 42, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to theft of government property in connection with her misuse of her government credit card.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), announced that JAMES D. ACFALLE, age 39, was sentenced today, in the District Court of Guam by Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood, to 100 months (8 years and four months) imprisonment with credit for time served and five years supervised release upon his release from prison, for the offense of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine (Ice).
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: Dear Comptroller General Dodaro: We are writing to request that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) conduct an audit of the facts related to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sebelius’ solicitation of funds for a private sector entity that she is working with to implement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: Danny Ray Evans, Jr., age 26, of Reading, PA was charged today by Indictment with two counts of production of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that on June 20, 2013, Nicholas J. Perjak, 32, Waterloo, IL, was arraigned on an Indictment charging him with Accessing, With Intent to View, Visual Depictions of Minors Engaged in Sexually Explicit Conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: U.S. Attorney for the District of Wyoming Christopher A. Crofts announced today that on June 17, 2013, Keith Allen Smith, a 37 year old Northern Arapaho Tribal Member, was sentenced for assaulting his wife and causing her serious bodily injury on the day following their wedding. Mr. Smith was sentenced...
