News published on Federal Newswire in February 2014

News from February 2014


Washington County Man Pleads Guilty To Receipt Of Child Pornography

News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - CHRISTOPHER J. WHITE, age 29, of Whitehall, New York, pled guilty today in Albany before United States District Judge Mae A. D’Agostino to receipt of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian, Joseph D’Amico, Superintendent of the New York State Police...


Fayette Co. Man Currently Serving 10 Years For Child Pornography Gets More Prison Time

News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - A Fayette County man currently serving a statutory maximum ten-year federal prison sentence on a federal child pornography offense received an additional year in prison for failing to appear for a sentencing hearing originally scheduled in May 2012, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced...


News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Raeb Chou, of Modesto, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to structure cash transactions and one count of structuring, and co-defendant Chantha A. Chim, of Murietta, pleaded guilty today to one count of structuring, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.


News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Robert G. Wells, 63, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to embezzlement and theft from an Indian tribal organization, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven C. Yarbrough, Special Agent in Charge Carol K.O. Lee of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division and Chief Kendall Vicenti of the Jicarilla Apache Tribal Police Department.


Physical Therapist Arrested On Health Care Fraud Charges

News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, Feb. 24, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DANIELLE FAUX, 46, of Weston, was arrested today on federal health care fraud charges. On Feb. 19...


Russell Allen Erxleben Sentenced To 90 Months In Federal Prison For $2 Million Ponzi Scheme

News Release: In Austin this morning, 57-year-old Russell Allen Erxleben of Dripping Springs, TX, was sentenced to 90 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution for implementing a Ponzi scheme involving an estimated $2 million announced the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas.


Dunn Man Sentenced To 235 Months For Federal Firearm Offenses

News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever, III sentenced DAVID ELLIS, 53, of Dunn, North Carolina, to 235 months imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.


News Release: WASHINGTON - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-Mich.), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman...


News Release: MEEKER, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is now asking for public feedback regarding proposed construction of five segments of a Herd Management Area fence in Rio Blanco County.


News Release: On Wednesday, February 26 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), will hold a hearing entitled, “Providing Access to Affordable, Flexible Health Plans through Self-Insurance." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.


News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, Feb. 24, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRUCE BROWN, also known as “Bruce Browne," “Spenser Brown," “Spenser Browne," “Agent Brice" and “Detective...


News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - United States District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill sentenced Bakersfield residents Carlyle “Carl" Lee Cole, 66, to 17 years and seven months in prison and Caleb Lee Cole, 37, to six months in prison for charges stemming from their involvement in an extensive mortgage fraud scheme that ran from January 2004 to September 2007, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.


News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A felony information filed in federal court Tuesday morning charges Daniel Joseph Carlton, age 66, of Salt Lake City, with credit union robbery in connection with a Jan. 10, 2014, robbery of Transwest Credit Union. The credit union is located at 39 West 2100 South, Salt Lake City.


News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of West Bloomfield, Michigan, has been sentenced in federal court to 48 months in prison for her conviction of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute oxycodone, a Schedule II controlled substance, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.


Altoona Spa Owner Sentenced To Probation With Home Detention For Money Laundering

News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Suwanee, GA, has been sentenced in federal court to three years probation, with home detention for the first 12 months, on his conviction of laundering of monetary instruments, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.


News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement in response to the Administration’s release of Exchange enrollments for the month of January.


Dallas-Area Lawyer Sentenced For Covering Up Bank Fraud

News Release: DALLAS - An Allen, Texas, man, who pleaded guilty in April 2013 to one count of a misprision of a felony stemming from his involvement in a loan fraud scheme, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.


United States Attorney Announces Charges Against Investor Who Defrauded Carmel, Indiana Victims

News Release: Ohio man operated a fictitious investment company which bilked over $650,000 from investors.


News Release: Burlington, Vt. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Randy Ray Rivera, 35, of Springfield, Massachusetts was sentenced to 144 months in prison, having pled...


Armed Career Criminal Sentenced In U.S. District Court

News Release: The United States Attorney(s Office announced that RICARDO ANDRE ROSS, 47, of Billings, was sentenced on Feb. 20, 2014, to a term of 180 months-or 15 years in federal prison-with five years of supervised release to follow, before U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy.