News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles sentenced Hubert Downer, a/k/a “Doc, age 52, of Jamaica, today to 20 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for murder in aid of racketeering.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 25-year-old St. Paul felon pleaded guilty to possessing a.22-caliber revolver and methamphetamine. Christopher Lee Rousseau specifically pleaded guilty to one count of being an armed career criminal in possession of a firearm. Rousseau, who was indicted on Jan. 15, 2013, entered his plea before United States District Court Judge Patrick J. Schiltz.
By Homeland Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) released the following statement reacting to President Obama’s announcement appointing Daniel “Danny" Werfel as Acting Commissioner of Internal Revenue...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - The former computer systems administrator for the Alabama court system pleaded guilty this week in federal court in Montgomery to stealing court system computer code, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey Anderson and Alabama Department of Public Safety Director Hugh B. McCall.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: - Ten banks and one convenience store robbed during a nearly three year period.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. -Marcellus Edward Cheatham, III, 27, of Richmond, Va., was convicted today by a federal jury of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence and being a felon in possession of ammunition. On the first day of trial, Tuesday, May 14, 2013, Cheatham pled guilty to robbing a Walgreens pharmacy, and possessing Oxycodone stolen in the robbery, with the intention of distributing or selling it. He proceeded to trial on the remaining charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: JOSE ROBERTO PACHECO-ALVARADO, age 23, a citizen of Honduras, was charged in a one-count indictment by a Federal Grand Jury today with illegal reentry by an alien previously removed, announced U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles sentenced Hubert Downer, a/k/a “Doc, age 52, of Jamaica, today to 20 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for murder in aid of racketeering.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - An individual found by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has pleaded guilty in federal court on charges of false statement under oath in a proceeding or matter related to naturalization and re-entry into the United States after deportation, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: While we have a reasonable bill before us given the allocation, unfortunately there is a dark cloud looming over the committee.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - MICHAEL KITCHEN, St. Peters, MO, was indicted on federal fraud charges for conducting an investment fraud scheme during 2008 and 2009. He is expected to appear in federal court later this week.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Robert Coyle, Sr., 68, of Glassboro, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 72 months in prison for a loan fraud scheme that attempted to swindle more than $10 million from three banks. He pleaded guilty to two counts of loan fraud on Oct. 1, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: MOBILE, AL-- The United States Attorney, Kenyen R. Brown, announces that Katrina Duke Williamson was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Callie V. Granade today to 64 months confinement for embezzling almost $400,000.00 from a law firm in Foley, Alabama where she previously worked.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Wakpala, South Dakota man convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on May 13, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Mary Brainard, 60, of Seneca Falls, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, to wire fraud affecting a financial institution. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison, a fine of $1,000,000 or both.
By DOE Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today expressed her support for the nomination of Dr. Ernest Moniz to be the next Secretary of the Department of Energy. The Senate unanimously confirmed Dr. Moniz by a vote of 97-0.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: LEAR ENCLARDE, age 68, a resident of New Orleans, was charged with Conspiracy to Commit Honest Services Mail Fraud today in a one-count Bill of Information, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By Interior Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Conditions for a prescribed burn scheduled for Thursday in Plateau Valley were not met so fire managers from the Upper Colorado River Interagency Fire Management Unit canceled a scheduled burn on Nick Mountain-Bald Mountain units.
By Interior Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska:Denali National Park and Preserve Superintendent Don Striker has determined that due to the deterioration of the snowpack, there is no longer adequate snow cover for the use of snowmobiles for traditional activities in the 1980 additions to Denali National Park and Preserve on both...
By DOL Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: “It’s great to be here today to talk about the retirement crisis and my proposal to solve it by expanding pension coverage.
