News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - Two Fitchburg men were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Worcester for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: DENVER - This morning, the Drug Enforcement (DEA), North Metro Task Force, and the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office executed eight search warrants and made numerous arrests as part of a methamphetamine and cocaine trafficking investigation that has resulted in the grand jury indictment of 45 defendants and the seizure of several pounds of methamphetamine and cocaine, numerous firearms, and the recovery of stolen vehicles.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: Gary Kent, of Dresher, Pennsylvania, was charged today by Indictment, with two counts of distribution of child pornography, and two counts of possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about Sept. 13, 2012 and on or about Jan. 27, 2013, Kent distributed images of child pornography, and on or about Nov. 30, 2012 and on or about February 5, 2013, Kent possessed images of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Sioux Falls man was sentenced on May 30, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Brian Daniel Rowe, 28, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday in United States District Court in Coeur d’Alene to possession of sexually explicit images of minors, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Rowe was charged by indictment on Jan. 15, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: Effective June 1, 2013, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) prohibits the use of fireworks and exploding targets on all BLM-managed public lands throughout Oregon and Washington.“We have some amazing places among the 16 million acres of lands managed by the BLM in Oregon and Washington. Fire season started...
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces that a federal jury has found Ana Orosa Parada (49, Orlando) guilty of conspiracy to obtain payment of false claims. Parada faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. Her sentencing hearing is scheduled before U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell on Aug. 13, 2013. Parada was indicted on Sept. 19, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: Ralph Mariano Admits To Defrauding U.S. Government Of Between $7 And $20 Million Dollars;.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Ronald Verrochio, Inspector in Charge, U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), Miami Field Office, Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Christopher...
By DOL Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) issued the following joint statement after renewing their request for the Department of Labor to abandon its proposed changes to the longstanding “advice exemption" under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act...
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Benito Ruiz-Landa, 48, of Hesperia, California, who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, was sentenced to 60 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska- U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a man from Wasilla, Alaska, was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage yesterday for drug conspiracy and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: (MANHATTAN, N.Y.) - Robert Whitfield, a Correction Officer with the New York City Department of Correction, was convicted yesterday, May 30 on charges of drug possession, conspiracy, bribery and official misconduct. The announcement was made by Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division, United States Drug Enforcement Administration and Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: SAN JOSE - Yesterday, a federal grand jury in San Jose, California, indicted Lisa McMahon, of Mountain View, Arkansas with wire fraud and theft from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore sentenced Carlos Johnson yesterday to eight years in federal prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. As part of his sentence, the court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $431,625.00, the proceeds of the offenses. Johnson was also ordered to forfeit a Cadillac and a Dodge Charger that were purchased with the fraud proceeds. Johnson pleaded guilty on Feb. 26, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. -- A New City, N.Y., man and former employee of a New Jersey country club was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for possessing images on his computer of children being sexually abused, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: Gary Kent, of Dresher, Pennsylvania, was charged today by Indictment, with two counts of distribution of child pornography, and two counts of possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about Sept. 13, 2012 and on or about Jan. 27, 2013, Kent distributed images of child pornography, and on or about Nov. 30, 2012 and on or about February 5, 2013, Kent possessed images of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - An optometrist from Derby, Kan., has been sentenced to 41 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud in a scheme to collect more than $500,000 in pay for eye exams that never were performed, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today. In addition, he was ordered to pay $583,060 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a 34-year-old Hopkins man pleaded guilty to making false statements to Federally Licensed Firearms Dealers (“FFL") for the purpose of illegally purchasing firearms for individuals in Honduras. Jony Sevilla Cerna pleaded guilty to one count of making...
By Commerce Newswire | May 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Ranking Members Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) of the Senate Finance Committee, Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today called on the Inspector General of the Health and Human Services (HHS)¬ Department to launch an investigation into fundraising activities reportedly carried out by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
