News from September 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2013
News Release: Sentenced For Cocaine Distribution. The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Senior United States District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik has sentenced Joseph Crawford, age 34, of Duryea, Pennsylvania, to 35 months’ imprisonment for transporting cocaine...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - MICHAEL FLOERCHINGER pled guilty late Thursday afternoon to possession of child pornography, after three days of trial before United States District Judge Henry Autrey.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Jamar Marvin Simmons, a/k/a “Mar," age 30, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to sex trafficking of a minor, in connection with a prostitution business he ran with co-defendant Franklin Roosevelt Coit, a/k/a “Frank," and “Nitty," age 34, also of Baltimore. Coit pleaded guilty to the same charge, on Aug. 1, 2013. Simmons was a Baltimore City firefighter at the time of the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2013
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y.-- -The United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of New York announced today that Lisa M. Yaeger, 49, of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to three misdemeanor charges of submitting false documents to the Internal Revenue Service. Each charge carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison, a fine of $100,000 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that Raja Khalid Jamaleddin, 33, of Alexandria, was sentenced Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell to 18 months in prison and three years of supervised release for possessing more than $8,600 worth of counterfeit dollar bills. He was also ordered to pay an $8,000 fine. Jamaleddin pleaded guilty June 18, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, Ronald J. Verrochio, Inspector in Charge, U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), Miami Division, Paula Reid, Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Jarrod Charles Gauna, 23, of Lubbock, Texas, pleaded guilty this morning, before U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings, to a federal firearm charge stemming from his shooting and injuring an individual during a drug transaction at a convenience store in Lubbock this spring. The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. and Acting Assistant Attorney Robert G. Dreher, of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a five count Indictment charging William L. Huntress, 57, of...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Friday, Sept. 20, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. CINCINNATI - A U.S. District Court jury has convicted Robert Frank Poandl, 72, of Fairfield, Ohio of one count of interstate transportation of a minor for illicit...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 20, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today released a letter from Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius detailing the disastrous effects the House of Representatives’ current Continuing Resolution plan, H.J. Res. 59, would have on millions of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries and the more than six million children who rely on the Children’s Health Insurance Plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2013
News Release: Albany, New York - JOSE REYES BLANCO RUTIAGA, age 29, a citizen of Mexico, pled guilty yesterday before Senior United States District Court Judge Lawrence E. Kahn, in Albany, New York to the felony offense of re-entry by a previously removed alien, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO ― The owner of multiple area outpatient surgery centers pleaded guilty today to federal fraud and tax charges, admitting that he paid bribes and kickbacks to physicians for patient referrals and impeded the Internal Revenue Service in the collection of federal income taxes. The defendant, RAGHUVEER NAYAK, was scheduled to stand trial starting Oct. 1 in U.S. District Court, but the trial was stricken following today’s guilty plea.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Garry W. Arnold, of Dayton, has pleaded guilty to defrauding Exxon Mobil, his former employer, and causing a loss of more than $1 million, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2013
News Release: Chiricahua National Monument (NM) will waive entrance fees on Saturday, September 28 in recognition of National Public Lands Day. National Park Service (NPS) Director Jon Jarvis has announced that all 401 national park sites will offer free entry on this day in an effort to encourage individuals, families...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2013
News Release: Defendant Caught Smuggling Over 128 Pounds MDMA into the United States from Canada ALBANY, NEW YORK - JOEL CUNNINGHAM, age 30, of Ottawa, Canada, pled guilty today in Albany before United States District Court Judge Glen T. Suddaby to one count of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2013
News Release: OAKLAND - A federal jury convicted David Busby of possessing child pornography yesterday, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced. The guilty verdict followed a 3-day jury trial before The Honorable Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2013
News Release: Juan Gamino-Salinas, 25, a Mexican national, was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison on Sept. 20, 2013, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Gamino-Salinas was sentenced in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2013
News Release: Sex Trafficker From Tenancingo, Mexico, Is The Fifth Granados Family Member Convicted.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2013
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Sept. 20, 2013, Valerie W. Johnson, 56, of Centreville, Illinois, pled guilty to a one-count indictment charging that she engaged in a scheme to commit health care fraud. Sentencing has been...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2013
News Release: Felicia C. Adams, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi, and.
