News from March 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III, sentenced JESSE RAY “TOMMY" FAULKNER, II, 54, to a total of 66 months imprisonment followed by 3 years supervised release. Restitution of $13,261,662.40 was also imposed.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today introduced an amendment to protect consumers, employers, and states from “rate shock" under the new health care law, by allowing states and employers waivers from the law’s mandates if those mandates cause individual, small group or employer premiums to rise.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: DETROIT - Forty-Four individuals have been charged in a health care fraud and drug distribution scheme, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn.) - Luis Reynaldo Parra Flores, 35, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, a deputy with the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department, was charged in a federal complaint in Nashville yesterday, with conspiring to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine, announced Jerry E. Martin, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - This evening, U.S. Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) praised Senate passage of an amendment they introduced to the Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 Budget Resolution that would repeal the medical device tax that was included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The amendment passed by a vote of 79 to20.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Today, Kevin Lee Butler, 23, of Quincy, Florida, was sentenced to ten years in federal prison for using the internet in an attempt to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity. The sentence was announced by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: As the Senate begins to debate Democrats first budget blueprint in nearly four years, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today filed the following tax related amendments to S.Con.Res. 8, the Senate Budget Resolution for FY 2014...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: Richard Haines, Jr., 59, of Lancaster, PA, was charged today by indictment with enticing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct so that he could take pictures of the conduct and with.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two shipping firms based in Germany and Cyprus today pleaded guilty to felony obstruction of justice charges and violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships related to the deliberate concealment of vessel pollution from four ships that visited ports in New Jersey, Delaware and Northern California, the U.S. Attorney’s Offices in New Jersey and Delaware, the Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division and the U.S. Coast Guard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Thursday, March 21, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. CINCINNATI - Jerry Smith, 50, of Brookville, Indiana, was sentenced to 65 months in prison, ordered to pay $5,406,950.65 in restitution to victims and $72,412.70...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: Ashley Renee Uze, 27, of Harrisburg, Illinois, was arraigned today in United States District Court in Benton on an indictment charging her with possessing pseudoephedrine with the intent that it be used to manufacture methamphetamine, announced Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. The indictment, returned by a Federal Grand Jury on March 5th, alleged that the offense occurred on November 5, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: Hammond, Indiana-The United States Attorney’s Office announced that the following Indictments were returned on March 21, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., real estate agent was sentenced in federal court today for tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - Fifteen men from the North Shore, primarily Lynn and Revere, were charged today in federal and state court with various drug trafficking and firearm offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Sydney Lightning Fire, age 30, of Rapid City, South Dakota appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on March 18, 2013 and pled guilty to the Superseding Information that charged him with Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding a Federal Officer. The maximum penalty upon conviction is 8 years in custody, a $250,000 fine, or both; and 3 years of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Today, Congressman Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released a new report issued by the Inspector General of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) warning that mortgage companies that service loans backed by Freddie...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Bonnie R. Gordon, 33, of Ransomville, N.Y., pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess and distribute over 100 kilograms of marijuana before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a mandatory minimum five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, a fine of $2,000,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MARK HEALEY was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 90 months in prison for transporting, distributing, and possessing child pornography. HEALEY was convicted of two counts of transporting and distributing...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Belinda Dubray, age 44, of Martin, South Dakota appeared before Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court, on March 7, 2013 and pled guilty to distribution of a controlled substance. The maximum penalty upon conviction is 10 years of imprisonment and/or a $500,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: NEDRA BELL, age 40, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty in federal court today before U.S. District Court Judge Lance M. Africk, to theft of government funds and to making false statements to an agency of the United States, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
