News from November 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: Jerel Jackson, 28, of Philadelphia, PA was charged today by Indictment with three counts of sex trafficking of a minor or of adults by force, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 40,000 metric tons of soybean oil for delivery to India during the 2013/2014 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: Charles Zeiser, 68, of North Carolina, was charged today by Information with five counts of wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Zeiser was the controller for Land Tech, Enterprises, a landscaping company in Bucks County. He aided and abetted a fraud scheme in which company...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - In U.S. District Court in Boston today, James J. Bulger was sentenced for operating a criminal enterprise that was responsible for the murder of 11 people, as well as numerous counts of extortion, money laundering, drug dealing, and firearms possession.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. today sentenced Thomas Frank Robeson (48, Potomac, Montana) to 18 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit money laundering. As part of his sentence, the court also entered a money judgment in the amount of more than $2.1 million, the proceeds of money laundering conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man has been sentenced to 87 months in federal prison for maintaining an apartment where he sold crack cocaine, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Gelacio Cendejas-Renteria, 44, of Uruapan, Michoacan, Mexico, and Julian Martinez-Rodriguez, 44, of McAllen, have been ordered to federal prison for their respective involvement in the distribution of crystal methamphetamine from McAllen to Houston, announced Javier Peña, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) along with United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - A federal grand jury indictment was unsealed today charging BLAKE LYNN SELF, 18, of Moore, Oklahoma, with committing disaster benefits fraud in connection with a claim for benefits following the May 2013 tornados in Moore, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: COVINGTON, KY - The owner of a chiropractic clinic in northern Kentucky was indicted today on charges that she conspired to defraud a federal health care benefit program.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: Washington - Today, Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Ranking Member Nick J. Rahall, II (D-WV) issued the following statements after House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) named the members selected to serve on the House-Senate...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: LIVE Webcast - Click here to watch the LIVE webcast of the hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Brandon James, 23, and Lenardo Nicolas, 25, both of Florida, were charged today by Indictment with participating in an illegal check cashing scheme that involved cashing fraudulent checks using the drive-through teller lane at victim banks. It is alleged that the defendants and other co-conspirators...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ANTOVANY ACOSTA, also known as “Tony," 33, of New Haven, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 150 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a 59-count indictment charging a Youngstown fraudulently obtaining ownership of more than two dozen distressed properties in Mahoning County and resold them for about $1 million, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland office.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: Thank you, Charles and Mr. Yonekura, for having me here and for that kind introduction. I’m happy to see Ambassador Sasae here as well. You’ve all done great work to strengthen economic ties between the United States and Japan. I appreciate your invitation to speak today at the Business Council’s 50th annual conference.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: ORLANDO, FLA. - Damien L. Bromfield, 37, of Ocoee, Fla., pled guilty today to a federal charge stemming from his role in an investment fraud scheme in which more than 100 investors lost over $11 million, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and James D. Robnett, Special Agent in Charge of the Tampa Field Office of IRS- Criminal Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that 37 defendants - including 23 Sedalia, Mo., residents and eight Johnson County, Mo., residents - have been indicted in six separate but related cases for their roles in drug-trafficking conspiracies that distributed more than $1 million worth of cocaine and crack cocaine, as well as illegally possessing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO -These five New York residents traveled from New York to St. Louis returning stolen merchandise to various retail stores using counterfeit driver’s licenses and receipts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Patton, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to four years probation, the first three months of which must be satisfied by conditions of home confinement with electronic monitoring, on his conviction of possession of marijuana plants, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: Opening Statement. (Remarks as Prepared). The purpose of today’s hearing is to review the progress of the gathered agencies in implementing the recovery objectives, and meeting programmatic deadlines authorized and mandated in the “Sandy Supplemental.". Hurricane Sandy made landfall on Oct. 29, 2012...
