News from September 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Wagner, South Dakota, man convicted of Second Degree Murder and Assault with Intent to Commit Murder was sentenced on Sept. 23, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing its oversight of the $67 million Navigator grant program, House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter to Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight Director Gary Cohen regarding questions and concerns raised during last week’s Oversight and Investigations...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2013
News Release: SALEM, Ore. - For the 13th consecutive year, a unique financial crimes conference will be held in Oregon. The Financial Crimes & Digital Evidence Conference has become international in scope, attracting participants from Europe and Asia. It brings together in the same place at the same time, from multiple...
By State Newswire | Sep 23, 2013
News Release: Washington D.C. - Congressman Eliot Engel, the senior Democratic Member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement on the terrorist attack at a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Phillip Bernardino Chavez, 30, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for illegally possessing a machine gun, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chavez appeared before U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge at the federal courthouse in Boise.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2013
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Sept. 23, 2013, Michelle Laducer, 38, Rolla, N.D., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on two charges of sexual exploitation of a minor. Laducer pleaded guilty to the charge on June 17, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for taking part in an armed robbery at a Little Caesars Pizza restaurant, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of East Liverpool, Ohio, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of wire fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2013
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Mark William Bush, age 38, and Crystal Kaye Peterson, age 31, both of Spokane, Washington, were sentenced after pleading guilty to federal drug charges on June 27, 2013. Mark William Bush pleaded...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 23, 2013
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is inviting the public to celebrate the 20th anniversary of National Public Lands Day! There are two local events at two different locations. Events are scheduled in the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey Area (NCA) a short 25 minute drive southwest of Boise at...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis sentenced Ida Mae Weathers, a/k/a Ida Mae Snipes, age 49, of Baltimore, today to 259 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with a scheme to steal...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Sept. 23, 2013, Timothy Cortez Robinson, 26, of Montgomery was sentenced to more than 3 years for the possession of a firearm during a shooting at the Rose Supper Club on Dec. 3, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a New Jersey lawyer who turned his law firm and related corporations into a racketeering enterprise was sentenced today in Newark federal court to life in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - MARK EDWARD HAMME, 45, of Oklahoma City, was sentenced today to serve 720 months in federal prison for advertising child pornography by United States District Court Judge Stephen P. Friot, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mobridge, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2013
News Release: Orlando, FL - Senior U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell today sentenced Tina Mangiardi (50, Orlando) to seven years in federal prison for money laundering. The court also ordered Mangiardi to pay restitution to the victims. A restitution hearing will be scheduled for a later date. As part of her sentence, the court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $100,000, the proceeds of the prohibited monetary transaction. Mangiardi pleaded guilty on May 7, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Jason Lee Holmberg, 39, of Middleton, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in federal court to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and interstate transportation in aid of racketeering, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Holmberg also agreed to forfeit assets associated with the illegal activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A man from Pittsburg, Kan., has been sentenced to 157 months in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2013
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Sept. 23, 2013, Manuel Perez-Ambrosio, 35, of Posa Rica, Veracruz, Mexico, pleaded guilty and was sentenced by U.S. Senior Judge Patrick A. Conmy on a charge of reentry of deported alien.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 23, 2013
News Release: The 2014 continuing resolution (CR) would prioritize an ideological fight to defund the Affordable Care Act ahead of American jobs and the economy. Republicans are forcing a 42nd vote on repealing and undermining the Affordable Care Act, which would put medical decisions back in the hands of insurance companies. Pursuing ideological crusades under threat of government shutdown is no way to govern.
