News from September 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: Scott Atkins, 44, of Scottsdale, Arizona, and a former resident of Troy, Michigan, was sentenced on Sept. 18, 2013 to serve 6 years in custody, for operating an advanced fee fraud scheme and tax evasion, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 19, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) issued the following statement regarding Senate adoption of an amendment to HR 527, the Responsible Helium Administration and Stewardship Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge John Antoon, II yesterday sentenced Alexander Lee (31, Kissimmee) to 5 years in federal prison for receipt of child pornography. Lee was also ordered to register as a sex offender and to serve a 10-year term of supervision, upon his release from prison. Lee pleaded guilty on June 26, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Two northern Nevada Indian tribes will receive over $1.8 million in U.S. Department of Justice grants to assist them enhance law enforcement practices and sustain crime prevention and intervention efforts, announced Nevada’s U.S. Attorney, Daniel G. Bogden. The Nevada tribes were included...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Manuel Pena aka “Super," 48, the leader of a drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy, has been handed a significant federal sentence, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 19, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today sent follow-up to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) after they failed to meet the September 18th deadline to comply with subpoenas for documents on the Obama Administration’s decision to retroactively subject 2012 Secure Rural School (SRS) payments to the fiscal year 2013 sequester.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp yesterday sentenced Anthony V. White (31, Daytona) to fifteen years in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine base, commonly known as "crack" cocaine, and for possessing a firearm and ammunition after having been previously...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: Runs on Highway 120 West and 120 East Extended to the End of September.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: RICHARD S. HARTUNIAN, United States Attorney, Northern District of New York, announces that NATE KING, age 23, of Syracuse, pled guilty this morning in U.S. District Court in Syracuse to an indictment which charged him and ten others with conspiring to exploit their membership in the V-NOT Gang to engage...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: STATESBORO, GA - Two federal indictments, unsealed today in federal court, have charged 11 defendants with conspiracy to commit theft of public money and access device fraud in connection with fraudulent tax returns. Both of these indictments allege that the defendants illicitly obtained and possessed...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that U.S. District Court Judge Edward Shea dismissed a disability lawsuit brought by a former federal employee of the Department of Energy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Rosemary McDowall, age 59, of Silver Spring, Maryland, today to six months of home detention as part of 18 months probation, for health care fraud. Judge Titus also ordered McDowall to pay restitution of $151,404.73.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on Sept. 18, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy, JAMES BENJAMIN ARNOLD, a 25-year-old resident of Missoula, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Tramell McGee, 30, who was convicted of conspiracy to trafficking cocaine, was sentenced to 60 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. --U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Petar Petrov, 41, of Mississauga, Ontario, and Evgeniy Bandarmaliev, 50, of Toronto, Ontario, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to commit access device fraud and use of counterfeit access devices. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: Tyler Andrew Bergland, 28, of Troy, Illinois, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for knowingly receiving and possessing child pornography, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Count 1 of the indictment charges that from January...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: Maria DeJesus-Guzman, 36, of Philadelphia, was charged today in a four count indictment with loan application fraud, passport fraud, falsely representing to be a United States citizen, and aggravated identity theft announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the indictment, DeJesus-Guzman...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that yesterday in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced Hermelindo Velasquez-Rivera, 36, of Sonora, Mexico, to 125 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: A former paid cooperator for a federal law enforcement agency was sentenced to more than four years in prison today for a variety of crimes related to a mortgage-fraud scheme, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
