News from March 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Anthony Griffin, age 44, of Baltimore, today to 151 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for robbery. Judge Hollander enhanced Griffin’s sentence upon finding that Griffin is a career offender based on four...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2013
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announced that Stephen Joseph Woods (34, Savannah, Georgia) has pleaded guilty to sending a notice over the Internet offering to produce and receive child pornography. Woods faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years, up to 30 years in federal prison and a potential life term of supervised release. Woods has been in custody since his arrest on Nov. 2, 2012. A sentencing hearing has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Three Philadelphia men are charged with conspiracy and Hobbs Acts robbery in a superseding indictment filed yesterday, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Marcus Jones, 23, Jonte King, 22, and Maleek Brown, 22, are charged with planning and carrying out the March 14, 2012...
By State Newswire | Mar 19, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is traveling with President Obama to Israel, representing the U.S. Congress during the president’s historic visit to the region.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - John Kieran Hynes pleaded guilty last week to filing a false tax return, United States Attorney Melinda Haag and IRS-CI Special Agent in Charge Jose M. Martinez, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Late last week, JORY MICHAEL NANCE, 28, of Edmond, Oklahoma, was convicted by a jury of 57 out of 59 counts of transportation, receipt, and attempted receipt of child pornography, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 19, 2013
News Release: We must address the environmental impacts of our nuclear weapons complex, to ensure the health and safety of those communities affected.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Michael Jacoby, age 44, of Castle Rock, Colorado, and Derek Zar, age 30, of Commerce City, Colorado, were sentenced last Friday by visiting U.S. District Court Judge Kathryn H. Vratil to serve 108 months in prison and 63 months in prison respectively, for a mortgage fraud scheme, the U.S. Attorney’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that an indictment returned on March 12, 2013 charging three Luzerne County residents with their alleged roles in a conspiracy to make straw purchases of firearms and other firearms charges, including possession of a machine gun and distribution of cocaine was unsealed Monday following their arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Jennifer M. Soltis of Smock, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of misappropriation of postal funds and theft of mail by a postal officer and employee, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Chad A. Salvatore, 40, of Alden, N.Y., who was convicted of distribution of child pornography, receipt of child pornography, and obstruction of justice, was sentenced to 20 years in prison and lifetime supervised release by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2013
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Two principals of a Pennsylvania construction company were arrested today in connection with an employee kickback scheme that occurred during a reconstruction project at the Ft. Dix military base in Burlington County, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), blasted the Senate Democrats’ blueprint budget for fiscal year (FY) 2014 for failing to address the nation’s unsustainable entitlement programs. Over the next decade, the federal government...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - Six residents of Arlington, Texas, who pleaded guilty to their respective roles in falsifying Texas state emissions tests at two state-certified inspections stations in Arlington, have been sentenced, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Joon Park, a/k/a “Joon Pak," and “Joon Paik," age 43, of Falls Church, Virginia, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit bank fraud, in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain business loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration, with resulting losses of over $100 million. Joon Park and others were charged in a second superseding indictment that was returned by a federal grand jury on March 7, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2013
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 40-year-old Silsbee, Texas lawyer has been sentenced to federal prison for bank fraud in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Brent Flood, age 23, of Fort Pierre, South Dakota appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno on March 13, 2013 and pled guilty to the Superseding Information that charged him with Possession of a Controlled Substance. The maximum penalty...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore sentenced Russell B. Simmons, Jr. yesterday to 15 years in federal prison for defrauding the Internal Revenue Service and for aggravated identity theft. The court also ordered Simmons to forfeit a 2005 Bentley, more than $100,000 in jewelry, $25,000 cash, and more than $118,000 worth of fraudulently obtained tax refunds, which are traceable proceeds of the offense.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 19, 2013
News Release: Our servicemembers make our military great and it is our responsibility to make sure they are taken care of.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An individual found in Coraopolis, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to time served on his conviction of re-entry into the United States after deportation, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
