News from March 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2013
News Release: United States Alleges Companies Provided Government Employees with Meals and Entertainment to Steer Contract Award.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2013
News Release: Defendants Convicted By Juries In Two Separate Trials.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Jonathan Mark Blindman, age 31, of St. Francis, South Dakota was convicted of one count of simple assault by a federal jury in Pierre. He was found not guilty of one count of Aggravated Sexual abuse and one count of Sexual Abuse. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 6 months in custody, a $5,000 fine, or both; and a $10 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Istvan Merchenthaler, 42, of Coatesville, PA, was charged today in a superseding indictment with seven additional counts stemming from an alleged investment fraud scheme. Merchenthaler is now charged with a total of four counts of wire fraud, two counts of aggravated identity theft, four...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today questioned the nominee to be the next Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, about her commitment to return balance to the various missions, including energy development, of the Department of the Interior.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2013
News Release: “Abu Ghayth" Allegedly Appeared With Usama Bin Laden And Ayman Al-Zawahiri After Sept. 11, 2001, Threatening Additional Attacks Against The United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today RAEFORD EDWARD NUNN, 44, of Durham, North Carolina was sentenced by United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle to 57 months imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release. The 57 months sentence was at the top of the sentencing guidelines range.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Vanderbilt, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of mail fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 7, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Reps. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Oregon) and Elijah E. Cummings (D-Maryland) introduced the Stopping Abuse and Fraud in Electronic (SAFE) Lending Act of 2013 to help protect consumers from predatory lending practices. The legislation would enable consumers to stop automatic bank withdrawals...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2013
News Release: Defendants Include Organization Insider Who Processed Fraudulent Applications.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2013
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David Osborn, age 41, of New Castle, Delaware, was sentenced today to 5 years in prison for transportation of child pornography via AOL chat rooms and email. Osborn also was sentenced to 5 years of supervised release following his prison sentence. He also will be required to register...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2013
News Release: To protect contractor and visitor safety, the coastal area of Olympic National Park between Goodman Creek and Jefferson Cove is closed to all public entry.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - A former Chicago Bears football player and a Cook County sheriff’s deputy who worked part-time as a collegiate and professional sports referee were charged separately today with misdemeanor federal offenses for allegedly failing to file federal income tax returns over a period of four years.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2013
News Release: DALLAS, Texas - Frank Christopher Olivera, 46, of Grapevine, Texas, the former Vice President of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs at Gamestop Texas LLP, was sentenced this afternoon by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to 51 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in November 2012...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2013
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Robert Arnold Savage, 62, of Grand Bay, Alabama, was sentenced by Senior District Judge Walter J. Gex III to serve 41 months in prison for a federal firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced. He was also ordered to forfeit a total of 85 firearms and pay a $3,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - Two Fitchburg men were convicted today in U.S. District Court in Worcester of conspiracy and multiple counts of distributing crack cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 7, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC-On Tuesday, March 12, 2013, Reps. Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland), Scott Rigell (R-Virginia), and Carolyn Maloney (D-New York) will convene a bipartisan forum to hear from victims of gun crimes that resulted from “straw purchasing" and other gun trafficking efforts, as well as law enforcement officials charged with combating these crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2013
News Release: Jackson, Miss. -- Watson Jackson, a former Deputy with the Madison County Sheriff’s Office, Zach Robinson, a former Deputy with the Hinds County Sheriff’s Office, and Kent Daniels, a former Jackson Police Officer and Investigator for the Hinds County District Attorney’s Office, pled guilty in U.S. District Court today to theft of government funds and property.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Shelda Sutton Mendoza, 60, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty this morning to evading federal taxes. Under the terms of her plea agreement, Sutton Mendoza faces a prison sentence of 10 to 16 months in prison followed by not more than three years of supervised release. Sutton Mendoza also will be required to pay $167,362 in restitution to the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2013
News Release: MANHATTAN - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly and Joseph A. D’Amico, Superintendent of the New York State Police announced...
