News from March 2013
By USDA Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
Release: By Kate Snipes, Agricultural Counselor, U.S. Embassy, Nairobi.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jose A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Antonio J. Gomez, Acting Inspector in Charge, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Miami Division, and Sergio Velazquez, Chief, Hialeah Police Department, announced that defendant Lineten Belizaire, 22, of Miami, pled guilty today for his role in a stolen identity tax refund scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: TTOPEKA, KAN. - A Kentucky man has been sentenced to 10 months in federal prison to be followed by a year on supervised release after pleading guilty in a counterfeit credit card case, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: A forty-three year old male is presumed dead from injuries believed to be sustained in a fall, likely occurring in an avalanche in Rocky Mountain National Park. Search efforts began this morning for two overdue climbers from Estes Park. At around 2:45 p.m. park rangers found the forty-five year old female...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: Sandy Springs: "Pack it in, pack it out" is a familiar slogan for hikers on the Appalachian Trail and in many national parks. Starting next month, visitors to the boat ramps, picnic areas, and trails ofthe Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area (CRNRA) will need to start getting used to carrying their own trash out of the park, too.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 34-year-old Minneapolis woman was sentenced on one count of sex trafficking a minor. United States District Court Judge Ann D. Montgomery sentenced Kimberly Susan Latham to 132 months in federal prison. Latham was indicted on Jan. 19, 2012, and pleaded guilty on May 4, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: POCATELLO - Linda Joyce Lakes, 54, of Pocatello, Idaho, was sentenced today to 12 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for mailing threatening communications, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also imposed a no contact order with the victims. Lakes pleaded guilty to the charge in November 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A federal jury has convicted Paul W. Bergrin, 57, of Nutley, N.J., of all 23 counts on which he was tried, including conspiracy to murder a witness and other racketeering, cocaine and prostitution offenses. The verdict was announced today by New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles woman was sentenced today to one year and one day in federal prison for trafficking in counterfeit handbags and wallets, including accessories bearing counterfeit marks belonging to Chanel, Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana, Fendi, Prada, and Versace.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: Boston, MASS: The FBI, along with Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, released new information about one of the largest property crimes in U.S. history, the art theft from the museum more than two decades ago. The FBI is appealing to the public for help in what is one of the FBI’s Top Ten Art Crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on March 18, 2013, United States District Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Teresa Liggins, 51, of Lincoln, Nebraska, to 21 years and 10 months in prison for her conviction for conspiracy to district over 280 grams of crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: Former Public Employee And Denham Springs Business Owner Indicted For Conspiracy, Use Of Interstate Facility In Aid Of Racketeering, And Making False Statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Robert E. O’Neill announces today that Denny Junior Jenkins (41, Live Oak) has pleaded guilty to failing to register as sex offender in Florida after traveling from South Carolina. Jenkins faces up to 10 years in federal prison, and a potential lifetime term of supervised release. Jenkins has been in custody since Feb. 15, 2013. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A former vice president of operations at Prism Career Institute, a private, post-secondary educational institution with campuses in Cherry Hill, N.J., Egg Harbor Township, N.J., and Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for stealing more than $400,000 from her employer between 2008 and 2011, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announces that today in federal court former real estate developer JAMES THOMAS WEBB, 52 of Miami, pled guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Bank and Wire Fraud before Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever, III.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: New Charges of Witness Tampering, Obstruction of Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: Today, President Obama nominated Thomas Perez, the current assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, to the secretary of labor post, following Hilda Solis's retirement. Following this announcement, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 77 months imprisonment followed by three years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and David Vitter (R-LA), Ranking Member, introduced S. 601, the Water Resources Development Act of 2013 (WRDA). S. 601 will provide critical flood protection for communities across the country, and maintain the flow of commerce and the jobs that go with it. for S. 601, WRDA , and the bill summary.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on March 18, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, SPENCER GLENN PRICE, a 46-year-old resident of Great Falls, appeared for sentencing. PRICE was sentenced to a term of.
