News from November 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Wasilla resident was charged with the illegal possession of an unregistered silencer.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announces the availability of the Record of Decision (ROD) and Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (Final SEIS) for the Ruby Pipeline Project with the publication of a notice in the Federal Register on November 21.The ROD documents BLM's intention to...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in (SAC) Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field (MFD), David Dongilli, SAC, DEA, Philadelphia Field (PFD), and A. Lee Bentley, III, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announce the arrest and unsealing of a criminal complaint...
By State Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U. S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on Iran supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s anti-West, anti-Israel speech delivered as Iran is involved in nuclear negotiations with the United States and other nations...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont announces that the Vermont Lake Monsters have completed specific modifications at Centennial Field to improve accessibility as described in Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA"). Title III of the ADA prohibits a public...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven today sentenced Juan Gonzalez-Castro to 3 years and 1 month in federal prison for healthcare fraud. The court also ordered Gonzalez-Castro to forfeit $2,543,951.28, which are traceable to proceeds of the offense. Gonzalez-Castro pleaded guilty on August 7, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Victor Osa Ohanmu, 54, of Pickering, Ontario, was convicted of attempting to enter the United States after deportation, subsequent to a conviction for an aggravated felony, and making a material false statement to Customs and...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: Aztec, NM - Aztec Ruins National Monument is pleased to announce that it has received a Connecting Trails to Parks grant for 2014. It is one of only four projects to receive the funding. The park will receive $95,314 to study and develop a part of the historic Old Spanish Trail as part of the North Main Trail Project planned in partnership with the City of Aztec. The funding will also help tell the story of the Old Spanish Trail in images, waysides, and other media.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - An Augusta, Kan., man has been indicted on charges of producing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today. The indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in Kansas City, Kan.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: A woman who embezzled nearly $70,000 from a Mason City bank was sentenced today to more than one year in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Wounded Knee, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on Nov. 15, 2013, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A husband and wife from Bergen County, N.J., were both convicted today of one count each of bank fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: Michael G. Morris Charged With Three Counts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two defendants have admitted their roles in one of the nation’s largest and longest running stolen identity refund fraud schemes ever identified, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today. The scheme caused more than 8,000 fraudulent U.S. income tax returns to be filed, which sought more than $65 million in tax refunds, and which resulted in the losses to the United States of more than $12 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell today sentenced Daniel Acevedo-Mayen (28) to 6 years and 3 months in federal prison for receipt and possession of child pornography. He was also sentenced to serve a 5-year term of supervision, following his incarceration, and ordered to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that James Hamilton, Sr., 29, of Buffalo, N.Y., was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute and distribution of marijuana; manufacturing and possession with intent to distribute 50 or more...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: A Cleveland federal grand jury returned an indictment against two executives of a Japanese automotive supplier for their roles in an international conspiracy to fix prices of automotive anti-vibration rubber parts sold to Toyota and installed in U.S. cars, the Department of Justice announced today.
By State Newswire | Nov 21, 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 hearing on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ROBERT LIQUINDOLI, 42, of Waterbury, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. Magistrate...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Three members of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas gang (ABT) pleaded guilty to racketeering charges related to their membership in the ABT’s criminal enterprise, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
