News from March 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: MARCH 28 - (BRIDGEPORT, Conn.) - - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that Michael Underhill, 42, of Norwalk, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Richard M. Plato, 65, of Baytown, has been ordered to federal prison for nearly 20 years following his convictions on several counts in relation to a mail and securities fraud conspiracy, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. A federal jury convicted Plato on Sept. 24, 2012, after approximately four hours of deliberation and 10 days of trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: Joshua James Flanagan, 29, of Casa Grande, Arizona, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on March 25, 2013, for possession with intent to distribute 101.494 grams of methamphetamine. Flanagan was arrested in Casper, Wyoming. He received 120 months of imprisonment...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
Release: Washington, DC, March 28, 2013 - Students at elementary schools participating in USDA’s Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program consumed 15 percent more fruits and vegetables, based on an agriculture department study released today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: Kenneth William Griffin, age 62, also known as Ted Baker and owner of The Restaurant Repair Company in San Antonio, Texas, pled guilty today before Chief United States District Judge Fred Biery to wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A physician who was the owner and founder of Visiting Physicians of South Jersey - a Hammonton, N.J., provider of home-based physician services for seniors -pleaded guilty today for charging lengthy visits to elderly patients that they did not receive, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: A 185-ton dock that washed out to sea during the March 2011 tsunami in Japan has now been removed from Washington's Olympic Coast. As of today, crews from The Undersea Company of Port Townsend, Wash., removed the last of the dock's concrete and plastic foam from the beach and the inland landing site.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte sentenced Dennis O. Edwards, age 49, of Silver Spring, Maryland, today to 21 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit bank fraud in connection with a scheme in which he submitted fraudulent loan applications to obtain over $2.241 million to purchase or refinance homes. Judge Messitte also ordered Edwards to pay restitution of $625,000.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report today identifying 82 federal wind-related programs administered by nine different government agencies which cost taxpayers a total of about $2.9 billion in “wind-related obligations" as well as at least $1.1 billion in wind-related tax subsidies...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
Release: Washington, DC, March 28, 2013 - The USDA today announced the implementation of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program nutrition education (SNAP-Ed) provisions of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. The changes will add a renewed focus on the critical problem of obesity by expanding the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Carson woman has been sentenced to 156 months in federal prison in an $8 million Medicare fraud case in which she illegally paid kickbacks for referrals to patients, whose beneficiary information was used to make bogus claims to the government health care program.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - Harriet Mathita, who pleaded guilty in November 2012 to a superseding information charging conspiracy to defraud the U.S., through the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), by obtaining, and aiding to obtain, payments of false, fictitious and fraudulent claims, has been sentenced by U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Jose Alberto Izquierdo-Gonzalez, 26, an undocumented Mexican alien living in Laredo, has pleaded guilty to using a motor vehicle to assault a Border Patrol agent and to smuggling aliens, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: U.S. Attorney for the District of Wyoming Christopher A. Crofts announced that on March 21, 2013, Shawn Antelope, Jr., a 19-year-old Northern Arapaho Tribal Member, was charged in an indictment with one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 113(a)(6) and 1153...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Florida: Everglades National Park recently unveiled the new "Park Employee for a Day" geocache trail. Often billed as a "high-tech scavenger hunt," geocaching is a location-based experience that challenges visitors with a Global Positioning System (GPS) or mobile device to discover hidden treasures. The activity has gained popularity over the years commensurate with the increasing availability of GPS-enabled devices.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: In El Paso this morning, 59-year-old Lisolette Day “Di Di" Lofton and her stepson, 49-year-old James Douglas Lofton, owners of Southwest Escrow in Horizon City, pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with the embezzlement of over $1.2 million in escrowed tax monies from more than 400 customers, announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and FBI Special Agent In Charge Mark Morgan.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Audi Pineda, 39, of Pawtucket, a career offender, was sentenced on Wednesday in U.S. District Court to 120 months in federal prison, having been convicted by federal court jury on Oct. 18, 2012, of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute oxycodone, and possession with the intent to distribute oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Parmelee, South Dakota woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury and Child Abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: A man who conspired to distribute crack cocaine was sentenced March 26, 2013, to more than 14 years in federal prison.
