News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: TIN, INC., d/b/a/ TEMPLE INLAND, a Delaware Corporation located in Austin, Texas, was sentenced today by U. S. District Judge Ivan L. R. Lemelle to two years probation and ordered to pay a total criminal penalty of $3.3 million, for negligently causing the discharge of a pollutant from its Bogalusa Facility into the Pearl River and the taking of fish from the Bogue Chitto National Wildlife Refuge, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A woman who defrauded the Medicare program of $11.1 million in a fraudulent medical equipment billing scheme, was sentenced today to 51 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and criminal forfeiture of $11.1 million in assets, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By Homeland Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement in response to notification from Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator John S. Pistole that he will not exercise his option to extend the deadline...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: Williamsburg’s William Lowder Sentenced to 60 Months in Prison for Wire Fraud and Tax Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Kraig Antonio Davis, 23, of Tampa, Florida, was sentenced to serve 42 months in federal prison for tax fraud, mail fraud, and aggravated identity theft. Davis was also ordered to pay $77,081 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: Defendant Also Ordered to Pay Nearly $700,000 in Restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: PRINCETON, Ill. - A grand jury has charged six Bureau County, Illinois, residents with participating in a conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine over the past two years. Those charged are: Shane Walters, 27; Nicholas Hand, 29; Kyle Dye, 23; Jenna Regal, 23; Nikole Walters, 26; and Max Moritz, 32, all of Princeton, Illinois and the rural surrounding area.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan Johnson will hold a press conference addressing Human Trafficking on Thursday, May 30, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. CST.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - The United States filed a lawsuit today in federal district court to stop Philadelphia food warehouse New Rich City Trading Corporation, as well as president and owner, Ms. Xiaoping Sun, and manager, Mr. Si Yan Chuen, from selling food that is held in filthy conditions, in violation of the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act. United States Attorney Zane David Memeger announced the filing of the civil complaint.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: RICHARD S. HARTUNIAN, United States Attorney, Northern District of New York, announces that two indictments unsealed today in United States District Court charge eighteen (18) persons with being members of two drug trafficking conspiracies operating in Utica, New York. The Indictments allege that the...
By Interior Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: Channel Islands National Park Superintendent Russell Galipeau announced today the beginning of a planning process to replace and potentially relocate the pier at Scorpion Anchorage on eastern Santa Cruz Island.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Anthony K. Mastrogiovanni, 30, of Crofton, MD, pleaded guilty today to the sexual exploitation of minors to produce child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Joshua Barber, 20 and Nicholas Kaiser, 20, both of Plymouth, Massachusetts, were charged by criminal complaint with intentionally intercepting a wire communication and with making a telephone call without disclosing their identity with the intent to annoy or harass the person at the called number. The charges carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison, a $500,000 fine or both.
By Homeland Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Kan. - A suburban Kansas City man was sentenced in federal court Wednesday to the maximum of 30 years in federal prison for producing child pornography, which included images of a naked 2-year old boy in a roaster pan in an oven.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Julio Brinez, 43, of Palisades Park, N.J., was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Warren W. Eginton in Bridgeport to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking oxycodone.
By Interior Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: Lakewood, Colo. - Today the Bureau of Land Management leased a 3,155-acre tract for $6.39 million to Blue Mountain Energy, Inc. to develop approximately 21.3 million tons of recoverable coal near the Deserado Mine in Rio Blanco and Moffat counties.
By USDA Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced that Mountain View Seeds Ltd., Salem, Ore., has paid $1,050 to settle alleged violations of the Federal Seed Act.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A man who made false statements to a federally insured credit union to obtain a $7.5 million commercial real estate loan, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Roger L. Hunt to 98 months in prison, five years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution to the credit union, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: FARGO - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on May 29, 2013, Louis John Dunn of Fort Totten, N.D., was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. Dunn pleaded guilty to the charge on March 6, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area announces a 45-minute, ranger-led interpretive program at Blue Heron campground about White-Nose Syndrome (WNS). This exotic fungal disease is responsible for the death of millions of native species of hibernating bats and continues to spread towards Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. Ranger Alan Bowlin will present this evening activity on June 8, at 7:30 p.m. (EDT).
