News from October 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Neilson McKensley, 49, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., was sentenced this morning to 57 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction for aiding and abetting an armed robbery in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that Kevin Morris, age 24 of Franklin Township, (Chester County), was sentenced to 57 months imprisonment for his role in a drug conspiracy centered in Wilmington that involved the importation...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that OVES ST. ORBIN WRIGHT, 56, of Massapequa, N.Y., and KEVIN J. DUNBAR, 45, of Manchester, have pleaded guilty in Hartford federal court to marijuana distribution charges. WRIGHT pleaded guilty yesterday and DUNBAR pleaded guilty today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: SEATTLE - The largest volume used car dealership in Washington, pleaded guilty and was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle for failure to file a monetary transaction report. Zein Automobiles, Inc., d/b/a Independence Auto Sales and Best Bet Auto Sales with locations in Lynnwood and Everett, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Shelly Nichols, 43, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon to 25 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for her conviction on aggravated identity theft charges. Nichols, together with her co-defendant, also was ordered to pay $141,233.57 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that fourteen individuals were indicted on Oct. 23, 2013, by a federal Grand Jury. The indictments charge each person with, among other things, Embezzling Public Funds, namely unemployment insurance payments administered by the Illinois and Missouri Departments of Employment Security. The total amount of fraudulent overpayments alleged in the 14 indictments is $351,005.87.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that Charles Lee Gorish (67, St. Augustine) pleaded guilty to transporting images and videos of child pornography from Florida to Canada. Gorish faces a mandatory minimum penalty of not less than 15 years and up to 40 years in federal prison. Gorish has been in custody since his arrest in St. Augustine on September 7, 2012. A sentencing hearing has not yet been set.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Yesterday, Danny Werfel, Acting Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, sent a letter to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform explaining that confidential tax information was not shared with the White House in violation of Section 6103 of title 26 of the U.S. Code, contrary to allegations made at the Committee’s hearing last Wednesday.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: In Del Rio, Hipolito Amaya, 35-year-old owner of AM-ROD Construction based in Eagle Pass, faces up to ten years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a bribery charge in connection with an alleged bribery, kickback and bid-rigging scheme in Maverick County announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 38-year-old Luzerne County resident pleaded guilty today to receiving and distributing child pornography before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: SAN JOSE - Vernina Adams was sentenced today to 38 months in prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Donnell Thomas, 26, of Steelton, Pennsylvania, was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The indictment charges Thomas with Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon, Possession of a Firearm in furtherance of Drug Trafficking, Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance, and Possession of a Firearm with an Obliterated Serial Number.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 38-year-old Lufkin, Texas, man has pleaded guilty to violating state and federal wildlife laws, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: Today, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), Ranking Member on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, and Congressman Tom Petri (R-Wisc.), reintroduced legislation that would ensure meaningful ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has filed a seven-count indictment charging Yi Liu, 40, of Lexington, South Carolina, with stealing trade secrets from Sprung-brett RDI, a technology firm located in the University of Buffalo’s Technology Incubator...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO ― The owner and three other executives of the now-closed Sacred Heart Hospital and four physicians affiliated with the former west side facility were indicted on federal charges alleging that they collectively paid and received hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal kickbacks in exchange...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has indicted Dimitar Angelov, 28 and Dimitar Kolev, 26, both of Chicago, for placing an electronic scanning receiver, known as a “skimmer", and a hidden camera on an ATM at a Springdale, Ohio bank in order to steal account...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: Defendant charged in 2011 with not participating in federal background check programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: Yolanda Rice, 23, of Belleville, IL, was indicted on Oct. 23, 2013, on charges of Health Care Fraud and Obtaining Controlled Substances by Fraud, in a three-count Indictment returned by a Federal Grand Jury sitting in East St. Louis, IL, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: A Federal Grand Jury has returned a two-count indictment against Timothy S. Griesemer, 39, of Jerseyville, Illinois charging him with Commercial Sex Trafficking of a Child and Inducement of a Child to Engage in Prostitution, United States Attorney Stephen R. Wigginton announced today. The alleged violations...
