News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Maria Vega, 53, a mortgage broker and real estate agent in Ceres, pleaded guilty today to filing a false tax return, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. sentenced Juan Gonzalez (60, Palm Bay) earlier this week to 8 years in federal prison for receipt and possession of child pornography. As part of his sentence, he was also ordered to serve a 10-year term of supervision, following his incarceration. Gonzalez pleaded guilty on July 8, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Both men were sentenced involving their operation of a large marijuana distribution network and laundering the proceeds through a Tucson, Arizona, business to avoid reporting requirements. VAN J. SANDERS, JR., of Tucson, AZ, was sentenced to 24 months incarceration. LEON ROBINSON III, of Florissant, MO, was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day. Both appeared before United States District Judge E. Richard Webber.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Romanian natives residing in Queens, N.Y., were sentenced today to prison terms for a scheme to steal account information from bank customers throughout New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut by installing secret card-reading devices on ATMs, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands - White House Drug Control Policy Director Gil Kerlikowske has awarded the St. Thomas Major Organization (MOI) unit of the Puerto Rico/U.S. Virgin Islands High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) the 2013 national award for Outstanding Task Force Effort, announced United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe. The HIDTA St. Thomas MOI Task Force is led by the Drug Enforcement (DEA).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Kwan Yong Choi, 73, pleaded guilty on Monday, Feb. 10, 2014 to six counts of money laundering of illegal proceeds generated by his investment fraud scheme, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DALBERT RODRIGUEZ, 30, formerly of Holyoke, Mass., pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Houston resident Francisco Rodriguez, 22, has been sentenced to a total of 168 months for possessing with the intent to distribute multiple kilograms of methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Rodriguez pleaded guilty Feb. 13, 2013, to possessing a gross weight of more than five kilograms of 90% pure methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today Christine Wright-Darrisaw, 38, of Rochester, N.Y., was convicted of making a direct threat to kill the President of the United States, and for lying to United States Secret Service Agents investigating the case, following a jury trial before U. S. District Court Judge Frank P Geraci. Each charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: HOMESTEAD, FL: Everglades National Park is pleased to invite the community to a presentation on Sunday, February 23 by photographer Adam Nadel, who will discuss his project, “Getting the Water Right." The free event will begin at 4:00 p.m., at the Audiotheque at ArtCenter/South Florida, located at 924 Lincoln Road #201, Miami Beach, Florida 33139.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service will present a free program at the Fort Moultrie Visitor Center on Saturday, March 22 as part of Women's History Month. Ruin and Remembrance is a Southern woman's perspective on grief and loss during the Civil War. This program will be offered at 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Hudson County, N.J. man, who served as the senior accountant of the City of Bayonne Department of Community Development (CBDCD) today admitted accepting $65,000 in bribe payments in exchange for his assistance in awarding projects funded by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development grants, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Dr. Enyibuaku Rita Uzoaga, 41, and Charles Harris, 53, have been indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and health care fraud, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn.- Steven Marshall Fout, 24, of Sweetwater, Tenn., was sentenced on Feb. 20, 2014, to serve 151 months in prison by the Honorable Danny C. Reeves, visiting U.S. District Judge. The sentence was imposed as the result of a guilty plea entered by Fout in June 2013, to federal charges of knowingly distributing and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that Scott McLean, 51, of Belleville, Illinois, and John A. Vassen, 56, of O’Fallon, Illinois, were sentenced in the United States District Court in East St. Louis, Ill., for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: Nine Bloods Gang Members and Three Other Defendants Have Pleaded Guilty to Date.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A southwest suburban physician was arrested yesterday on federal charges for allegedly conspiring to illegally dispense a prescription medication and health care fraud, federal law enforcement officials announced today. The defendant, SATHISH NARAYANAPPA BABU, the owner of Anik Life Sciences Medical Corp., allegedly conspired to illegally dispense oxycodone and fraudulently billed Medicare for services he purportedly provided.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: Leonard O’Neill Possessed 15,000 Images And 2,430 Videos Depicting Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Shiraz Malik, 36, a Pakistani national residing in Warsaw, Poland, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton to 15 years in prison for conspiring to distribute controlled substances and listed chemicals, conspiring to import controlled substances and ephedrine into the United States, and conspiring to launder money.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A convicted felon was sentenced yesterday afternoon in federal court to 18 months imprisonment followed by three years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
