News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: LONG T. TRINH, age 44, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon to receiving approximately $2,296,379 from the United State Department of Agriculture based upon food stamp benefits through his store Seafood Heaven, located in Gretna, Louisiana, that were not authorized, announced U. S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Arturo Gonzalez, 42, businessman and owner of two J.C. Twiss “El Canonazo" sporting apparel and firearm accessories stores in Laredo, has been convicted of attempting to export more than 600 firearm magazines to Mexico, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson today. The verdict was announced late today after a three-day trial and approximately nine hours of deliberation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, woman convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on January 6, 2014, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: QUENSHEY MITCHELL, a/k/a “Ripper" “Baby Ripper", “Q", age 36, from Los Angeles, California, was convicted today of all six counts of a superseding indictment which included charges of conspiracy to distribute in excess of a kilogram of heroin, multiple conspiracies to obstruct justice, including conspiracies...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a Birmingham man to nearly three years in prison and ordered him to repay the government $1.3 million for his scheme to collect millions of dollars from the Internal Revenue Service on false tax returns, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and IRS Criminal Investigation Division Special Agent in Charge Veronica Hyman-Pillot.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today charging Bernard Lopez, 57, of Philadelphia, with theft of government funds for allegedly taking, for his own benefit, the Social Security Administration benefits check issued to another person, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and a member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement reacting to Nina Olson, the National Taxpayer Advocate’s annual report to Congress...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform at a hearing, titled “Waste in Government: What’s Being Done".
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Marco Gordon, a/k/a “D," a/k/a “Detroit," 34, of Detroit, Michigan; William Weston, a/k/a “Wild," 34, of Portland; Russell Gordon, a/k/a “Murder," a/k/a “M1," a/k/a “Black," a/k/a “B," 31, of Ansonia, Connecticut and Portland ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - U.S. Attorney Charles M. Oberly, III announced today that the District of Delaware collected $1,725,357.29 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2013. Of this amount, $448,253.63 was collected in criminal actions and $1,277,103.66 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Jefferson City, Mo., man and woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to engaging in a bank fraud scheme in which they unlawfully received more than $100,000 in student loans under their child’s name.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: Savannah, GA - John William Stanley, 46, of Pooler, Georgia, was indicted this week by a federal grand jury sitting in Savannah on charges related to a conspiracy involved in the illegal possession and distribution of numerous controlled substances. Stanley was charged with aiding and abetting that conspiracy...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Subcommittee Ranking Member Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) issued the following statement in response to the Camp, Baucus, Hatch Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) proposal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced today that Federal District Court Judge William C. Griesbach sentenced Keshena resident Jacob J. Zhuckkahosee, age 20, to 135 months of imprisonment, followed by a term of life on supervised release. The sentence was the result of a guilty plea by Zhuckkahosee on Oct. 15, 2013, to a federal indictment charging him with the sexual abuse of a person under the age of 16 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A pharmacist with a compounding pharmacy in Lakewood, N.J., was arrested today and charged with paying more than $50,000 to a Toms River, N.J., physician to induce the doctor to make prescription referrals to the pharmacy, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: Detroit - United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today that the Eastern District of Michigan collected $219,630,095.00 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2013. Of this amount, $204, 334,075.94 was collected in criminal actions and $15,296,019.06 was collected in civil actions.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - Preliminary DNA results from three mountain lion kittens born in the Santa Monica Mountains last month indicate they are the result of inbreeding. The results underscore the need for improvements to the wildlife corridor that is currently obstructed by the 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - United States Attorney Tammy Dickinson announced today that the Western District of Missouri collected more than $26.5 million in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2013. Of this amount, more than $14.8 million was collected in criminal actions, more than $6.2 million was collected in civil actions and nearly $5.5 million was collected through the seizure of assets that were forfeited to the government.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that 10 defendants have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute more than 2,200 pounds of marijuana in Boone County, Mo.
