News from September 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Acting United States Attorney Walt Green announced that SONYA LEWIS WILLIAMS, 47, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was sentenced to 37months for her convictions on counts of health care fraud and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Lisa M. Gabriel, age 35, of Keller, Washington, was sentenced on Wednesday, September 4, 2013 after having previously pleaded guilty on June 5, 2013 to one count of Aiding and Abetting the Violation...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: Production scale, not lower labor costs, drives China's current advantage in manufacturing photovoltaic (PV) solar energy systems, according to a new report released today by the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Although...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Michael Dean Ragan, Jr., age 31, of Port Deposit, Maryland, yesterday to 12 years in prison followed by 35 years of supervised release for receipt of child pornography. Judge Hollander further ordered that upon his release from prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District Pennsylvania announced the filing of an Information charging Charles A. Poalillo, Jr., age 80, of Monroe County, Pennsylvania, with filing false documents related to taking over a million dollars from pension funds.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: NORFOLK, Va., Sept. 5, 2013 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced funding for projects in eight states, including Virginia, to improve electric service for about 10,000 rural residents. Rural Utilities Service Administrator John Padalino made the announcement on the Secretary's behalf in...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - James Darius Caje, 21, a member of the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Mescalero, N.M., pleaded guilty yesterday afternoon to a sexual assault charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: Co-defendants Jason Wayne Pleau And Kelly Marie Lajoie Previously Pleaded Guilty And Await Sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. -Rene Ulises Quinteros Gaitan, 24, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, pled guilty today to charges of transporting a minor to engage in prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Yesterday in federal court in St. Paul, four individuals were sentenced for their roles in a large, multi-state, identity theft ring. United States District Judge Paul A. Magnuson sentenced Jerome Davis, Jr., Jemall Ronta Williams, Tierra Samantha Catrina House, and Shanell Collette Brewer each on one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: Nehemiah Muzamhindo Sentenced for Bilking W.K. Kellogg Foundation of $629,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: In Del Rio, Texas this morning, Maverick County Precinct Four Commissioner Cesar Flores, age 46 of Eagle Pass, Texas, pleaded guilty to his role in a bribery, kickback and bid-rigging scheme announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez. This is the third Maverick County Commissioner to plead guilty as part of this investigation.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and an honorary Congressional Co-Chair of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Preparedness Month released the following statement to highlight the beginning of September and National Preparedness Month...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 32-year-old East Stroudsburg resident was charged today with unlawfully possessing gamma butyrolactone (GBL), a controlled substance analogue.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a 36-year-old St. Cloud man pleaded guilty to robbing the TCF Bank located at 1001 Fourth Street in St. Cloud. Fehd El Mehdi Kourima specifically pleaded guilty to one count of bank robbery. Kourima, who was indicted on June 10, 2013, entered his plea before United States District Judge Paul A. Magnuson.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued an updated version of the standard specification Personal Identification Verification (PIV) Card that federal employees and contractors use to enter government facilities or log on to federal computer systems.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FRANCISCO TELLADO, 37, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by six years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a previous federal conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: The owners and operators of several Miami home health care agencies and a patient recruiter pleaded guilty today in connection with a health care fraud scheme involving defunct home health care company Trust Care Health Services Inc. (Trust Care).
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: MEXICO CITY - The U.S. and Mexican governments trained more than 60 Yucatan officials in how to detect and recover stolen vehicles and watercraft in Merida. The training was held Aug. 26 to 30 and included prosecutors, investigators, police officers, customs inspectors and navy personnel.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: WILMINGTON - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today, WILLIAM WALTER BARKER 44, of Kinston, North Carolina was sentenced by Senior United States District Judge James C. Fox to 78 months imprisonment, followed by a lifetime of supervised release and a $10,000.00 fine on the charge of one count of Receipt of Child Pornography, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252 (a)(2).
