News from November 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man has pleaded guilty to making a pipe bomb, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Michael Mares, a former officer with the Onalaska Police Department, has been ordered to federal prison for providing firearms to a convicted felon, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Mares, 51, pleaded guilty, admitting he knowingly sold a firearm and various police items to a convicted felon who was planning a home invasion in which he and others planned on impersonating police officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today that Corneil Jones, who has also used the aliases Robert Eric James, Eric Germaine James, Kornell Jones, Enrique Williams, Kevin Liles, Richard Nelson, Lewis Mitchell, Julian Robinson, and Germaine Jones, was sentenced on Nov. 4, 2013 for violating his federal supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Quentin Collick of Montgomery, Ala., and Deatrice Williams of Duluth, Ga., were sentenced Nov. 1, 2013, to serve 85 and 51 months in prison, respectively, announced George L. Beck, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama. Collick and Williams were previously found...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Robert Hutchins, age 60, of Sandy, Utah, pled guilty yesterday before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Marcia S. Krieger to interstate communications involving a threat, U.S. Attorney John Walsh and FBI Denver Division Special Agent in Charge Thomas Ravenelle announced. Hutchins appeared at the change of plea hearing free on bond. Hutchins is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 10, 2014. He was originally indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver on July 10, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: Nine from Nicholas sentenced to federal prison this year in meth ring take-down.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of an effort to provide Americans with facts about HealthCare.gov that the Administration has declined to provide, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today released 175 pages of October meeting notes from inside the HealthCare.gov “War...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Eastern States (BLM ES) office will hold a quarterly, competitive oil and gas lease sale on March 20, 2014, at 7450 Boston Blvd., Springfield, Va. Environmental analyses of the parcels proposed for sale are available for public review and comment. The BLM ES proposes to...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: Agrees to permanently surrender law license at sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: BISMARCK- U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Nov. 4, 2013, Marcus Flying Horse, 29, Fort Yates, N.D., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on a charge of domestic assault by habitual offender. Flying Horse pleaded guilty to the charge on Aug. 13, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Brandon Meredith Hardy, 23, Moody AFB, Georgia, was sentenced on Monday, Oct. 28, 2013, by the Honorable Hugh Lawson, Senior United States District Judge, in Valdosta, Georgia, for possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Seven defendants, who were arrested in an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Operation (OCDETF) in September 2013, appeared in federal court today, before U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson, and pleaded guilty to various drug and drug-related offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Billy E. Moffitt, 27, of Lewiston and Plummer, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to time served - 159 days - for conspiracy to commit theft from a tribal organization, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill ordered Moffitt...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that New Farm Inc. has satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Hospice of the Comforter Inc. (HOTCI) has agreed to pay $3 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to the Medicare program for hospice services provided to patients who were not eligible for the Medicare hospice benefit, the Justice...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a New York City man was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Edwin M. Kosik to serve 40 months in prison on the charge of conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: - Federal charges result from “Project Recoil".
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Lindsay Branson III, 58, a former background investigator for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), was sentenced today to six months of incarceration on a charge stemming from his falsification of work on background investigations of federal employees and contractors, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Patrick E. McFarland, Inspector General for the Office of Personnel Management.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former Lee’s Summit, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to defrauding 39 investors in a $3 million Ponzi scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), announce that defendant Chi Da Liu a/k/a Zhida Liao, 55, formerly of El Cerrito, California and Guatemala, has been arrested on charges of fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1425(b).
