News from October 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: The former administrator of a group of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 38 employee benefit plans was charged in a one-count information with embezzling approximately $32,000 from the company that administered the plans, United States Attorney Steven M. Dettelbach said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Tressa V. Guy (41, Tampa) yesterday pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Guy also agreed to forfeit $790,421.28 to the United States as proceeds of the offense. Guy will be sentenced on January 9, 2014, and faces up to twenty-two years in prison.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: What: A concert of Irish music and songs featuring 3 acts: Shay Black, Amelia Hogan, and the traditional Irish music band The Jammy Dodgers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Yesterday Lloyd Jonathon Fry, 28, a resident of Hollywood, Calif., who was in the process of relocating to Piqua, Ohio, when he was arrested in May 2013, pleaded guilty in Las Cruces federal court to unlawful possession of pipe bombs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Apollo, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 42 months of incarceration and three years of supervised release on her conviction of mail and wire fraud conspiracy, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, today announced that a federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Rochelle Johnson, age 41, of Youngstown, Ohio, with assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding and interfering with a Deputy U.S. Marshal while engaged in official duty.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael J. DePalma, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announced that defendants Eddy Marin, 50, and Patrick Daoud, 54, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: Orlando, FL - Chief U.S. District Judge Anne Conway sentenced Ross Littlefield (48, Kissimmee) and Linda Littlefield (41, Kissimmee) yesterday for money laundering. Ross Littlefield was sentenced to four years in federal prison. Linda Littlefield was sentenced to five years in prison. As part of their...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge John Antoon, II today sentenced Carlos Manuel Cruz (40, Daytona Beach) to five years and six months in federal prison for possession of child pornography. Cruz pleaded guilty on April 15, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh man has been sentenced in federal court to 54 months in prison and five years of supervised release on his conviction of bank fraud and money laundering, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: Michael Beer, 36, of Roseto, PA, was arrested last night by agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, with support from the Pennsylvania State Police, for possession of a destructive device. Beer will have an initial appearance today at 1:30 pm in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Joshua I. Suter, 24, of San Angelo, Texas, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 97 months in federal prison following his guilty plea in July 2013 to one count of possession of child pornography. He has been in custody since his release was revoked earlier this month. The announcement was made today by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: US Attorney Barbara McQuade announced today that her office reached an agreement regarding First Independence Bank’s compliance procedures under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and anti-money laundering (AML) regulations. Under the Agreement the Bank will pay a fine of $250,000 and ensure that its BSA/AML...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of a fourteen-count indictment charging Ashley C. Guy with multiple counts of wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, possession of unauthorized access devices, and destruction of records in a federal investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: Two Defendants Charged With Cocaine And Methamphetamine Trafficking Extradited From Mexico; Two Defendants Charged With Cocaine Trafficking Extradited From Colombia.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: BURLINGTON, Vt. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that, on Oct. 17, 2013, Videsh Raghoonanan, a.k.a. “Bush," 26, of Queens, New York was sentenced to...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Rodolfo Reyes Mata, aka Rudy Mata, 40, of San Antonio, Texas, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $54,750 in restitution following his guilty plea in July 2012 to one count of mail fraud and aiding abetting.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: Defendant Attempted To Travel To Yemen To Fight Violent Jihad, Obstructed Federal Investigation Of His Terrorist Activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: Siouxland Community Health Center (SCHC), a community health center in Sioux City, has agreed to pay $200,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the Federal False Claims Act and the State of Iowa False Claims Act. The United States and the State of Iowa contend that SCHC improperly submitted claims...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: Oct. 18, 2013: Due to the federal government shutdown between October 1 and 16, the public comment period for the draft Seagrass Habitat Restoration.
