News from September 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- Two more defendants among 49 indicted in federal court for distributing heroin have turned themselves in to authorities following a Monday law enforcement roundup, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay A. Morris.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man with a record of felony convictions has been indicted on federal gun and drug charges, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) has issued a prospectus soliciting for proposals in response to a business opportunity to operate overnight rustic lodging, food and beverage, retail and horse stabling service at Charit Creek Lodge within the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area located in Oneida, Tennessee. The term of the new concession contract will be for ten years.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JUAN JOSE ALVAREZ DE LUGO AZPURUA, 53, of Branford, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Warren W. Eginton in Bridgeport to one count of wire fraud stemming from his operation of a real estate investment scheme that defrauded individuals out of more than $2 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Shawn Rickard, 39, of Elmira, N.Y., who was convicted following of conspiracy to manufacture 500 grams or more of methamphetamine and possession of firearms in the furtherance of drug trafficking activities, was sentenced to 97 months in prison, and five years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CHAN MING FON (“CHAN"), a former bank vice president based in Singapore, pled guilty today in connection with his participation in a scheme to defraud investors and auditors regarding the financial condition of Olympus Corporation (“Olympus"). CHAN, who was arrested in December 2012, pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain, pursuant to a cooperation agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Gregory Grove, a/k/a Gregory Kutruff, 37, Fayette, N.Y., who was convicted of failing to register as a sex offender, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and five years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Tabari Facen, 36, of Rochester, N.Y., was sentenced to 41 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge David G. Larimer, following the defendant’s convictions by a jury for possessing cocaine with the intent to distribute it...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: Jason Jay Mills, age 36, of Wilmington, Delaware, was sentenced today to six years in prison for receipt of child pornography via a website discovered by Italian law enforcement authorities. Mills also was sentenced to five years of supervised release following his prison sentence. He also will be required...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. -Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management Royal Gorge Field Office are looking for approximately 120 volunteers to assist with a large trail construction effort in Garden Park Fossil Area Oct. 5-6.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that John Joseph Stasinski, 35, of Kingston, N.Y., who was convicted of importation of MDMA, also known as Ecstasy, and possession with intent to distribute MDMA, was sentenced to 70 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: Nine individuals have been charged and six arrested during a two day period on food stamp fraud charges, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that yesterday a federal jury found Thomas W. Harter, D.M.D. guilty of six counts of willful failure to file income tax returns for the years 2006 through 2011. Harter faces a maximum penalty of six years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing has not yet been set. Harter was charged in a superseding information on April 16, 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 18, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings delivered the following statement on the House floor today in support of H.R. 761, The National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault With a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on Sept. 16, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO ― A federal jury today convicted a former Cook County official of steering four county contracts, each just under $25,000, to four acquaintances and then taking a portion of the contract payments as kickbacks from each of them, totaling $34,700. The defendant, EUGENE MULLINS, who was director...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - Upwardly departing from the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis sentenced James K. Jenkins, 38, most recently of Garland, Texas, to 48 month in federal prison. Jenkins pleaded guilty in March 2013 to one count of failure to register as a sex offender. Today’s announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: (ROCHESTER, N.Y.) Yesterday, federal authorities in Rochester announced that a significant international synthetic drug trafficking ring was successfully infiltrated. In the Rochester area, eight defendants were charged by criminal complaint for their participation in the conspiracy to import and distribute...
