News published on Federal Newswire in March 2013

News from March 2013


The US Energy Department published a two page notice on March 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a five page notice on March 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on March 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: Fort Myers, FL - U.S. Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces that Peter Hesser (51, Port Charlotte) was sentenced today to 3 years in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release for three counts of filing false tax returns and one count of tax evasion. He was also ordered to pay restitution to the Internal Revenue Service in the amount of $296,000. Hesser was found guilty in December 2012.


Westover Resident Sentenced For Failure To Register As Sex Offender

News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.


News Release: A professional rodeo clown who grew marijuana for over six years was convicted by a jury on March 8, 2013, after a three-day trial in federal court in Cedar Rapids.


Cooper City Resident Sentenced For Tax Refund Fraud

News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CID), and Paula Reid, Special Agent in Charge, United States Secret Service (USSS), announced today’s sentencing of...


Rapid City Man Sentenced For Controlled Substance Distribution

News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on March 1, 2013 by Chief U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken.


News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. -Rolando A. Rojas, 34, of Providence, was sentenced today to 175 months in federal prison for trafficking crack cocaine. Rojas, a career criminal who was previously convicted on drug trafficking, firearms, felony assault and robbery charges, was convicted by a federal court jury on July 18, 2012, with selling crack cocaine on three occasions to an undercover federal agent.


News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Richard D. Anderson, 59, of Fort Worth, Texas, pleaded guilty on Friday, before U.S. District Judge John McBryde, to an indictment charging one count of possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas. Anderson faces a maximum...


News Release: Today a federal jury returned guilty verdicts against Kwame M. Kilpatrick, 42, of Southlake, Texas and Bobby W. Ferguson, 44, of Detroit, on charges that they used Kwame Kilpatrick’s positions as Mayor of Detroit and Michigan State House Representative to execute a wide ranging racketeering conspiracy involving extortion, bribery and fraud, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced. Bernard Kilpatrick, 70, of Detroit was convicted of a felony tax offense.


Washington, D.C. Resident Convicted On Drug Charges

News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.


News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on March 8, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, JOHNATHAN MIGUEL BALBIN-MURILLO, a 29-year-old resident of Las Vegas, Nevada, appeared for sentencing. BALBIN-MURILLO was sentenced to a term of.


News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A former coffee shop owner from Salina, Kan., has been sentenced to a year on federal probation for selling a misbranded product known as Aromatic Potpourri that contained a substance mimicking the active ingredient in marijuana, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.


News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jesus Omar Lopez-Valle, 28, of Jarales, N.M., and his brother, Hector Manuel Lopez-Valle, 24, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty on Friday afternoon to methamphetamine trafficking charges. Jesus Lopez-Valle also pled guilty to the unlawful possession of firearms. The two men, who are Mexican nationals illegally present in the United States, entered their guilty pleas without the benefit of any plea agreement.


Leader of Wayne county-NYC cocaine Ring Sentenced on Drug Charges

News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Richard Crego, a/k/a Ricky, 25, of New York City, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of five kilograms or more of cocaine, was sentenced to 13 years in prison and 10 years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.


News Release: PUBLIC MEETINGS SCHEDULED TO DISCUSS PARK WILDERNESS MANAGEMENT PLAN.


Kirtland, N.M., Man Senteced to Sixty-Three Months in Prison for Federal Child Sex Abuse Conviction

News Release: ALBUQUERQUE -Wilson Harry, Jr., 55, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Kirtland, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon to 63 months in prison followed by ten years of supervised release for his abusive sexual contact conviction. Harry will be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence.


PCP Dealer Sentenced To Over 19 Years In Prison

News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus, Jr. sentenced Rashard Wilson, age 22, of Capitol Heights, Maryland, today to 235 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute phencyclidine (PCP), crack cocaine...


News Release: Company Misrepresented as Charitable Organization to Investors.