News published on Federal Newswire in March 2013

News from March 2013


Owner of Landover Business Pleads Guilty to Failing to Pay over $2.2 Million in Employment Taxes

News Release: hile Failing to Pay Employment Taxes, Spent Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars of Corporate Money for His Personal Benefit.


News Release: Hedge Fund Allegedly Earned More Than $27 Million In Profits And Avoided Losses In Scheme; Guilty Plea Of Third Defendant In Scheme Also Announced.


News Release: Officer Faked Injury To Obtain Insurance Payments; Videos And Photos Of Officer’s Performances In Punk Rock Band Evidence Of Fraud.


Hatch Announces Bill to Guarantee Strong IP Standards for U.S. in Global Trading System

News Release: WASHINGTON-To promote competitiveness and protect U.S. intellectual property rights (IPR), Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today announced, the Innovation Through Trade Act, legislation to create a Chief Innovation and Intellectual Property Negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to help guarantee strong IP standards are upheld and enforced with global trading partners.


News Release: Teachers and Students Turn their Community into an Outdoor Classroom.


News Release: National Park Service personnel from Lassen Volcanic National Park and Whiskeytown National Recreation Area will present information displays on fire management programs during an open house event on April 4 from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Turtle Bay Museum in Redding. Fire management and resource...


Laredoan Sentenced To 10 Years For Marijuana Conspiracy

News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Jesus Alberto Rodriguez, of Laredo, has been ordered to prison for possessing with intent to distribute 426 kilograms of marijuana, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. He pleaded guilty in October 2012.


Senators React to Special Fraud Alert Involving Physician Owned Entities

News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today said a new Special Fraud Alert issued by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) regarding Physician Owned Distributorships (PODS) confirms the middleman entities...


Mission Man Indicted For Sexual Abuse

News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse and Sexual Abuse.


News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Michael Pojar, 34, and Stacey Pojar, 33, both of Madison, Nebraska, were sentenced on March 25, 2013, to 158 months and 138 months in prison respectively by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard. The two had previously pled guilty for their...


News Release: Stole the Identity Information of at least 40 Clients of a Residential Mental Health Program to Open Fraudulent Bank Accounts and File False Tax Returns; Led the Conspirators by Using Violence.


News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota man convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on March 25, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.


News Release: Lafayette, La. - United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, Stephanie A. Finley, was recognized on March 22, 2013, at Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority’s 81st Regional Conference for her public service as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana. The public service award is presented...


Chairman Of The Board For The Paideia Academy/Employee Of St. Louis City Treasurer’s Office Convicted Of Fraud Charges

News Release: St. Louis, MO - After a seven-day jury trial, Fred W. Robinson was convicted on multiple fraud charges involving his submission of false time sheets in the Treasurer’s Office and his diversion of federal and state education funds from the Paideia Academy Charter School.


News Release: FAFANE DANIEL, age 32, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, pled guilty before the U. S. District Court Judge Eldon E. Fallon today to violating Title 49, United States Code, Section 46506, assault on an aircraft in flight within the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.


News Release: A Dearborn businessman and attorney were found guilty today by a federal jury of multiple counts of fraud and commercial bribery, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.


News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - On March 25, 2013, Hiram Granados Alvarez, 38, of Riverside, California, was sentenced to 324 months’ imprisonment for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy involving several kilograms of cocaine.


Former Pennsylvania Charter School Operator Charged With Federal Income Tax Fraud

News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal grand jury in Scranton has handed up a two count Indictment today charging Dennis Bloom, age 58, of Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, with tax fraud. Specifically, Bloom is charged with one count of tax evasion...


News Release: ATLANTA - Kenneth Lewis Martin, 25, of Guatemala, was sentenced today to serve over four years in federal prison for importing and possession with intent to distribute heroin.


Santa Teresa, N.M., Man Pleads Guilty To Unlawfully Possessing Seventy-Two Stolen Firearms

News Release: Firearms Stolen From Four Federal Firearm Licensed Dealers.