News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin today issued the following statement regarding his office’s investigation into the release of a potentially dangerous chemical into the southern West Virginia water supply.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: ( - HONOLULU) - After a five-day trial in the United States Court in Honolulu, a federal jury found Matthew Zmuda, 29, of Kauai, guilty on Jan. 10, 2014, of conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute, 50 grams or more of methamphetamine from January to April 2012, as well as attempting...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: Mahamadou Daffe Was Convicted Of Eight Counts For Stealing Tax Refunds Using Stolen Identities And Adding False Dependents To Clients’ Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: A man who possessed a homemade bomb was sentenced today to more than seven years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: In celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Superintendent Dusty Shultz is pleased to announce that the entrance fee to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) will be waived on Monday, January 20.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting a Federal Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: Sentenced In Largest Disadvantaged Business. Enterprise Fraud In Nation's History. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Dennis F. Campbell, of Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania, and Timothy G. Hubler, of Ashland, Pennsylvania, were sentenced by the Senior U.S.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-In a floor speech Monday, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, expressed his support for extending federal unemployment insurance. He also voiced concerns about the impact of proposed offsets, which include cuts to programs serving Americans with disabilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of South Dakota. Monday, Jan. 13, 2014. United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has affirmed the convictions of Edward J.S. Picardi, age 56, a former Rapid City surgeon. Picardi...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: Mukooda Lake, located in Voyageurs National Park in northern St. Louis County, will be closed to lake trout harvest effectiveJan. 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Nola Diane Collins, 60, of Armona, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill to five months in prison for stealing disability compensation benefits paid by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Collins also was ordered to pay $76,998 in restitution to the VA.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- Russell Wayne Smith, 46, of Gruetli-Laager, Tenn., was sentenced on Jan. 13, 2014, to serve 10 years in prison by the Honorable Harry S. Mattice, Jr., U.S. District Judge. Smith pleaded guilty in October 2013 to a federal grand jury indictment charging him with being a prohibited person, by virtue of a felony conviction, in possession of a firearm. Smith’s sentence was the maximum allowed by the statute.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Miguel Antonio Ruiz Jaramillo, 66, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to one count of aggravated structuring of cash transactions, U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J.- A Union County, N.J., man today admitted distributing images of child sexual abuse over the Internet, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell last month sentenced Kenneth Pointon (52) and Margaret Pointon (55), both of Orlando, to federal prison for making a false refund claim to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the amount of $509,420. Kenneth Pointon, who was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Dontae Cox, age 30, of Windsor Mill, Maryland, today to 12 years in prison followed by four years of supervised release for distribution of crack cocaine. Judge Hollander also ordered Cox to forfeit $29,030 in cash seized during the investigation, as well as a.22 caliber handgun, loaded.22 caliber magazine, one box of 9mm ammunition, two digital scales and two money counters.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: Judge Orders Defendant to Pay $88,390 in Restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Chandara Sam, 31, of Lowell, Massachusetts was sentenced to 168 months in prison, having pled guilty to the charge of conspiracy to distribute at least 100 grams of heroin. United States District Judge William K. Sessions III, sitting in Burlington, also sentenced Sam to 4 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: A man who possessed a homemade bomb was sentenced today to more than seven years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The government has intervened in eight False Claims Act lawsuits against Health Management Associates Inc. (HMA) alleging that HMA billed federal health care programs for medically unnecessary inpatient admissions from the emergency departments at HMA hospitals and paid remuneration to physicians...
