News from September 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - C. Tate George, former NBA basketball player and the CEO of purported real estate development firm The George Group, was convicted today on all counts on which he was indicted in connection with his role in orchestrating a $2 million investment fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By State Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued this statement following the meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee:
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Tire Hill, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Christopher Bryan Santos, 21, of Pharr, has been handed a federal prison sentence for making false statements in the acquisition of firearms from Federal Firearms Licensees (FFL), commonly known as straw purchasing, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Robert Elder, special agent in charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: NEW YORK - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Rawson Edward Watson, a citizen of the United Kingdom, pled guilty today in Manhattan federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District Pennsylvania announced that on Sept. 26, 2013, Charles A. Poalillo, Jr., age 80, of Monroe County, Pennsylvania, entered a guilty plea to the charge of filing false documents with the Department of Labor and the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Eddie Shirley, 28, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., was sentenced this morning to seven years in federal prison for using and brandishing a firearm in relation to a crime of violence on the Navajo Indian Reservation. Shirley will be on supervised release for seven years after he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A West Reading, Pa., man admitted he conspired to defraud FirstPlus Financial Group Inc. (FPFG), a Texas-based financial services company allegedly targeted for extortionate takeover and looting by a group led by alleged Lucchese organized crime family member Nicodemo S. Scarfo, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: Federal Cocaine Trafficking Charges. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Monroe County man was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Edwin M. Kosik to serve 60 months in prison on the charges of conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a former resident of Cape Coral, Florida, pleaded guilty today to conspiring with a Scranton man to commit a murder-for-hire and committing two related offenses before Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
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By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: By adapting superconducting technology used in advanced telescope cameras, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a prototype video imaging system for detecting hidden weapons and other threats at distances up to 28 meters away.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: Tyrell Keoni Saunders Is Seventh Federal Defendant To Be Sentenced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
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By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee Peter DeFazio (D-OR) applauded a recent decision by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to restart the peer review process for the proposed delisting of gray wolves from the Endangered Species Act (ESA). In a letter to...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney(s Office announced that during a federal court session in Helena, on Sept. 30, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, CARL CHESTER ALDEN, JR., a 23-year-old resident of Hardin and an enrolled member of the Crow Tribe, pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter. Sentencing has been set for January 6, 2014. He is currently detained.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: A man who sold heroin to a person who overdosed and died from using the heroin was sentenced today in federal court in Cedar Rapids to serve 30 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - James Allen Moquino, 31, a member of Santa Clara Pueblo, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to a federal assault charge, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven C. Yarbrough and DuWayne W. Honahni, Sr., Special Agent in Charge of District IV of BIA’s Office of Justice Services.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: “IOOS brings federal and regional ocean observations together to give decision-makers the critical data they need to save lives and build their communities," said Zdenka Willis, U.S. IOOS program director. “These awards will sustain those observations, and speed the transition of new promising technologies into the ocean, where they can serve our coastal communities day in and day out."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former employee of a global wealth management firm admitted today to passing on material, nonpublic information concerning Gilead Sciences, Inc.'s (Gilead) $11 billion acquisition of New Jersey-based Pharmasset Inc. (Pharmasset), U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
