News from November 2013
By DOL Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today welcomed the final vote by the Senate to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would outlaw employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Harkin, as Chairman of the HELP Committee, oversaw the bipartisan passage of ENDA in the Committee this July.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney James Santelle of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on November 5, 2013, a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Lisa A. Lewis (age: 48) of Green Bay, Wisconsin, charging her with five counts of Wire Fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. Section 1343. If convicted, Lewis faces a maximum of 20 years in prison, $250,000 fine, and three years of supervised release on each count.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Paul Rawls, 55 of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 51 months in prison for his role in a tax fraud scheme that sought to bilk the government of over $600,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Tennesseans participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) seventh National Prescription Drug Take-Back event on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013, turned in 10,029.84 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Western District of Louisiana. Thursday, November 7, 2013. LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Abelardo Antunez-Gama, 46, of Mexico, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Richard T. Haik to 20 months in prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Joseph Ortiz was sentenced to five consecutive life terms plus 60 months in federal prison today after pleading guilty last July, to twenty-five federal charges, including three counts of racketeering murder, eight counts of attempted racketeering murder, two counts of robbery affecting...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Twelve employees of the United States Attorney’s Office and four law enforcement officers were honored today with the Office’s most prestigious awards. At a ceremony held to announce the awards this morning at the U.S. Courthouse in Baltimore, the United States Attorney also welcomed new Assistant U.S. Attorneys and other employees who have joined the Office since last year.
By State Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the below statement, as prepared for delivery, at today’s nominations hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: Alfredo Muniga-Fuentes, 43, of Mexico, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on November 7, 2013, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Muniga-Fuentes was arrested in Jackson, Wyoming. He received time served, plus ten days, was ordered to...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to leading a tax fraud conspiracy that attempted to receive nearly $100 million in fraudulent refunds from the IRS. Co-conspirators from eight states were involved in filing fraudulent tax returns in the largest federal false claims case that has ever been prosecuted in Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -Today, after 15 days of jury trial before U.S. District Court Judge Gustavo A. Gelpi, Luz M. Vega, Certified Public Accountant, president of Preferred Medical Equipment (PME) and professor at the Interamerican University in Arecibo, PR, was found guilty of conspiracy to commit...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on November 7, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Keith Strong. GEORGE THEODORE SUTHERLAND, a 21-year-old resident of Box Elder and an enrolled member of the Chippewa Cree Indian Tribe, pled guilty to assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Sentencing has been set for February 7, 2014. He is currently detained.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Troy Czukoski, 43, of Exton, PA, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for possessing more than 150, but less than 300, images of children engaging in sexually explicit conduct. At the time of the investigation, Czukoski was serving as Principal of the Springton Lake Middle School...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Federal and state grand juries returned indictments this week following a joint investigation into the activities of the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (“DMR") and a $3 million grant issued to the City of D’Iberville, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis, FBI Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - North Carolinians participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) seventh National Prescription Drug Take-Back event on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013, turned in 10,880 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - An administrator of the Silk Road website, Curtis Green, a/k/a “Flush," and “chronicpain," age 47, of Utah, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and possess with attempt to distribute cocaine. In a related case, Jacob Theodore George IV, age 32, of Edgewood, Maryland, pleaded guilty on November 5, 2013, to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute drugs, including heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Dustin Metz, 30, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to three years in prison on a federal charge of possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Scot Rittenberg, Acting Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Washington, D.C., and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - MATTHEW M. HANSEN was sentenced to 20 years in prison on charges of attempting to entice minor boys to engage in sexually explicit conduct for him to videotape between 2007 and 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: FISHERS - Joseph H. Hogsett, the United States Attorney, was in Hamilton County today to acknowledge the presentation of U.S. Attorney Awards to four federal and local law enforcement officers. Joined by United States Marshal Kerry Forestal, HSI-ICE Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Gary Woolf, Carmel...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on Oct. 31, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Keith Strong, CAMERON T. JONES, a 22-year-old resident of Bethel, Connecticut, pled guilty and was sentenced to a term of.
