News from October 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - A Belgian businessman is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow on federal charges alleging that he violated U.S. laws by attempting to export aluminum tubes that were controlled for nuclear nonproliferation purposes from a company in Schaumburg, through Belgium, to a company in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - Earlier today, Dr. Mikhail L. Presman, a licensed psychiatrist employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), pleaded guilty to health care fraud in federal court in Brooklyn. For over seven years, Dr. Presman lied about providing home medical treatment to Medicare beneficiaries...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge late Tuesday sentenced the former CEO of Adams Produce Company to 16 months in prison for fraud against the company, failure to report a felony against the government and failure to file federal income tax returns, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr. and IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Veronica Hyman-Pillot.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Michael Wilkerson, 47, of Pottstown, PA, was sentenced yesterday to 170 months in prison and ordered to pay $1,353,111.93 in restitution for a mortgage fraud scheme. Wilkerson and his co-defendants defrauded JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. by fraudulently obtaining home loans valued at more than $6 million for properties located in Schwenksville and Glenmoore, Montgomery County, PA. Wilkerson was convicted at trial in February.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Akihiko Siegfried, age 54, formerly of Denver, CO, pled guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Philip A. Brimmer late Monday to one count of mail fraud and one count of money laundering, federal law enforcement authorities announced. Siegfried, who is currently in custody, is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Brimmer on March 10, 2014. Siegfried was indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver on June 17, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Western District of Louisiana. Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013. ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that Roy Elbert Carlton, 43, of Temple, Texas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell to 27 months in prison for possessing...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the New England Field Division and Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Andrew Melillo, 28, of Meriden, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing cocaine and oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted a Birmingham woman as part of a conspiracy to fraudulently take money from funds established to pay claims from individuals and businesses harmed by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: Superintendent Barclay Trimble announced today that beginning Friday, November 1 seasonal ORV routes will reopen in Cape Hatteras National Seashore unless they are temporarily closed due to a resource closure, per the park's Off-Road Vehicle (ORV) Management Plan. The seasonal ORV routes on Hatteras...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - Amos Patton, 42, of Cordova, TN was indicted today by a federal grand jury on nine counts related to a shooting at the Tennessee Army National Guard Recruiting Center in Millington, TN, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III; Special Agent in Charge of the Memphis Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, A. Todd McCall; and Naval Criminal Investigative Service Special Agent Michael C. Cote.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: Accepting Applications from Businesses Interested in Providing Visitor Services in Dry Tortugas National Park.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: BUSHKILL, PA: Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Superintendent John J. Donahue announced today that due to the construction of the Susquehanna to Roseland Transmission Line project, the recreational use of some park facilities will limited or restricted periodically between November 2013 and...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Lynn man was convicted today for being a previously convicted felon in possession of firearms and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: U.S. Attorney Christopher A. Crofts announced that on Oct. 28, 2013, Kenneth Wayne Crawford, III, a twenty-two year enrolled Eastern Shoshone man was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Freudenthal to 37 months imprisonment, to be followed by two years of supervised release and was...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - In conjunction with a full committee hearing, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today released a staff report entitled “U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 2011 Human Resources Conferences: A Culture of Reckless Spending." The report is a product of the Committee’s year-long...
By State Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: Washington D.C. - Ranking Member Eliot Engel, the senior Democratic member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement regarding his meeting with Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: ABILENE, Texas - Aaron Charles Lustfeldt, 27, of Big Spring, Texas, was sentenced this morning, by U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis, to 240 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in June 2013 to one count of receipt of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By State Newswire | Oct 30, 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 after a bipartisan meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY) also attended the meeting in the U.S. Capitol.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on Oct. 30, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen, DONALD LEROY RICKARDS, a 49-year-old resident of Kelson, Washington, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jonathan M. Hargett, a former civilian employee of the Department of Defense, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on charges alleging that he collected more than $2.2 million after submitting fraudulent claims for federal health care benefits.
