News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: SANTA ANA, Calif. - -A Santa Barbara physician was remanded into custody this morning after he pleaded guilty to 11 federal drug trafficking charges for writing prescriptions for powerful painkillers for “patients" who were drug addicts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Maximiliano Cordova, 20, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon to 188 months in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for his child pornography conviction. Cordova also was ordered to pay $500 to the identified victim in his count of conviction. The sentence was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney Steven C. Yarbrough and Special Agent in Charge Carol K.O. Lee of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Alcoa World Alumina LLC, a majority-owned and controlled global alumina sales company of Alcoa Inc., has agreed to plead guilty later today and pay $223 million in criminal fines and forfeiture to resolve charges that it paid millions of dollars in bribes through an international middleman in London to officials of the Kingdom of Bahrain, in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, announced today that the Southern District of Florida collected $70,006,305.57 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year (FY) 2013. Of this amount, $33,136,076.16 was collected in criminal actions and $36,870,229.41 was...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Santa Barbara physician was remanded into custody this morning after he pleaded guilty to 11 federal drug trafficking charges for writing prescriptions for powerful painkillers for “patients" who were drug addicts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: On January 9, 2014, Allen E. Peithman, Jr., age 35 of Lincoln, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for being a drug user or addict in possession of a firearm. Following the prison term, Peithman will serve three years on supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Colorado Springs, Colorado, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, announced today that charges have been brought this week against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: In Midland this afternoon, 36-year-old Raymond Holguin, Jr., of Odessa and 37-year-old Gustavo Pizarro of Midland were sentenced to 41 months and 18 months, respectively, in federal prison for defrauding My Community Federal Credit Union of millions of dollars announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist, El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: HONOLULU - U.S. Attorney Florence T. Nakakuni announced today that her office collected $2,475,370 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year (FY) 2013. Of this amount, $1,543,259 was collected in criminal actions and $932,110 was collected in civil actions. Additionally, the District of Hawaii worked with other U.S. Attorney’s Offices and components of the Department of Justice to collect an additional $193,281,585 in civil cases pursued jointly with these offices.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas (WDTX) collected $15,712,319.55 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2013 announced U.S. Attorney Robert Pitman. Of this amount, $10,642,574.35 was collected in criminal actions and $5,069,745.20 was collected in civil actions.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today slammed Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell on the Senate floor for rejecting a proposed road that would provide the remote Alaska community of King Cove with emergency medical access needed to protect local residents.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: More Than $26,000 from Naval Research Laboratory.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in South Dakota collected over $2.8 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 from civil and criminal actions. Of this amount, over $2.1 million was collected in criminal actions and over $673,000 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - William Winzenburg, Jr., 28, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon to five years in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for his child pornography conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Kyle, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on January 7, 2014, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Veronica L. Duffy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced today that, in Fiscal Year 2013 (Oct. 1, 2012 - Sept. 30, 2013), the Eastern District of Wisconsin Office collected $9,664,591.85 in civil and criminal cases. Of this amount, $4,989,276.78 was recovered in criminal actions, and $4,675,315.07 was recovered in civil actions-all on behalf of the citizen-taxpayers nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. announced today that the Eastern District of Louisiana U.S. Attorney’s Office collected $366,530,698.00 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2013. Additionally, the Eastern District of Louisiana worked with other U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and components of the Department of Justice to collect an additional $588,643,036.25 in civil cases pursued jointly with these offices.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today released the following statement regarding the introduction of TPA legislation by Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp, Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus and Senate Finance Ranking Member Orrin Hatch...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park is pleased to announce the waiver of entrance fees to enter Point Park on top of Lookout Mountain, on Monday, January 20. Experience the majestic views from Chattanooga's surrounding landscapes found in our nation's first National Military Park.
