News from March 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on March 11, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, ANN JOY WETZEL, age 55, JOSEPH ALLEN WETZEL, age 52, residents of Great Falls, and LOUIS SHANE KANYID, age 30, and JOELLE MARIE JONES, age 34, residents of Kennewick, Washington, appeared for sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DENNIS LERNER, a former employee of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS"), pled guilty yesterday in Manhattan federal court to violating a criminal conflict of interest law and to illegally disclosing confidential audit information during the time he was an IRS employee. LERNER was arrested in September 2012. He pled guilty before U.S. District Judge John F. Keenan.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: U.S. House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin C. Peterson, D-Minn., made the following statement regarding the Republican budget proposal for fiscal year 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on a charge of assaulting a federal officer, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa today offered the following statement on the unveiling of a budget plan by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) that would balance the budget in 10 years...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced today the arrest of two Utica area men on charges of bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that a Huntington woman pleaded guilty on March 11 in federal court to distribution of oxycodone. Shena Rena Turner, 26, admitted that on Nov. 19, 2012, she agreed to sell 100 30-milligram oxycodone tablets to a confidential informant working...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA: KHOREN GASPARIAN, 30, an Armenian national, was sentenced last Friday by Chief United States District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood to 41 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to defraud Medicare through phony medical businesses in Savannah, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA -- - United States Attorney Timothy J. Heaphy announced today that John Charles Kelly entered a guilty of plea in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon to a charge involving the distribution of hydrocodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court for violating federal narcotics trafficking laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-A Wayzata-based company has entered into an agreement with the federal government to settle allegations that it violated the Clean Water Act by filling a wetland near the Elk River outside of Sauk Rapids without complying with the terms of a permit issued by the United States Army Corps of...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Charles Pulliam, age 18, of Pine Ridge, South Dakota appeared before Chief U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken on March 7, 2013 and pled guilty to Larceny. The maximum penalty upon conviction is 5 years of imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 26-year-old Cooper, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for making threats against the President of the United States of America in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Tristan Yellow Horse, 27, of Oglala, South Dakota appeared before Chief U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken on March 8, 2013 and pled guilty to a charge of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury. The maximum penalty upon conviction is 10 years’ imprisonment and/or a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La: United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that Deynoodt Joseph Besse, 53, of Rayne, La., pleaded guilty Monday before U.S. District Court Judge Richard T. Haik to one count of wire fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: Washington- Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) introduced legislation today to permanently extend tax relief for ranchers, farmers and other landowners who donate land for conservation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Chelsea man was indicted today by a federal grand jury for making false statements in his application for a U.S. passport.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - William Robert Barsanti, 27, of Junction City, Calif., pleaded guilty in federal court to growing marijuana, Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Elroy Duffy, 51, a member and resident of the Mescalero Apache Nation, was arrested on March 7, 2013, on a criminal complaint charging him with sexual assault. Duffy entered a not guilty plea to the complaint yesterday, and this morning a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Las Cruces ordered Duffy detained pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Stanley Kyungjin Cho, 50, of Annandale, Va., pleaded guilty today to two counts of felony tax fraud in connection with his personal income taxes and his accounting and tax preparation business, “Kyung Jin Cho, C.P.A., P.C.".
