News from January 2014

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: - Operated sham medical supply companies in Louisville.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: Leonard Stango, 66, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by Indictment with aggravated structuring of financial transactions and filing false tax returns, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. It is alleged that between 2006 and 2009, Stango participated in a sports bookmaking operation...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Wood, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury and Child Abuse.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: Body Parts Buried In Queens, New York Basement Discovered By FBI In June 2013.

By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management Nevada will hold a joint meeting of its three Resource Advisory Councils (RACs) at the High Desert Inn, 3015 Idaho Street, Elko, NV on February 6 and 7. The meeting is open to the public and a public comment period will be available.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James T. Hayes, Jr., the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Office of the United States Department of Homeland Security (“DHS"), Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI"), announced today the arrest of BRIAN FANELLI...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On Jan. 22, 2014, Paul William Jessen, a 44 year-old resident of Atlantic, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie Rose to 122 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt.

By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: Contemporary Pioneers. Big Bend Natural History Association will hold the 26th Annual Pioneer Reunion in the Panther Junction Visitor Center Community Room at Big Bend National Park on Saturday, Feb. 1, from 1-5 PM. Tickets are $15 per person and can be purchased at the door, but reservations are...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: On Jan. 22, 2014, John C. Nicosia, 55, of Rochester, New York, was named in a one-count indictment for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1349 the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced. If convicted, Nicosia is subject to a term of imprisonment of up to 25 years, a fine of $250,000 and five years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Padraic Collins, 46, of Fairfax, Va., was indicted today by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia for production of child pornography after Collins allegedly was found to be in possession of child pornography videos while crossing the border into Canada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Alan Robert Fleming, 37, from Savannah, Georgia, pled guilty Tuesday before United States District Court Chief Judge Lisa Godbey Wood for his role in a massive loan-fraud scheme against First National Bank of Savannah and other federally-insured banks. Fleming was the last of 7 former officers of First National Bank to plead guilty to charges in a 47-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury sitting in Savannah in January 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for two arsons that caused more than $1 million in damages to the Ellis Library at the University of Missouri-Columbia and a building on the Stephens College campus in Columbia.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: Rance White, 25, of West Palm Beach, Florida, was indicted by a federal grand jury in East St. Louis for participating in a "recovery scheme," a scheme to re-victimize timeshare owners who had already been victimized in a timeshare resale fraud, through the false promise of a restitution award, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced. The indictment contains a single count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.

By USDA Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the appointment of two members to fill vacancies on the National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board. The terms for these appointees are effective immediately and expire on June 30, 2014. The appointees will be eligible to serve an additional three-year term after June 30, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: Jacqueline Enid Acevedo, 30, of Cedar Hill, Texas; Nathan Scott Christian, 30, of Boynton Beach, Florida; Robert Joseph Lopicola, 43, of Doral, Florida; and Kyle Richard Robertson, 31, of Miami, Florida, were each indicted by a federal grand jury for one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAMES DICKERSON, also known as “Jim Jim," 30, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Elliot R. Duke, 29, of Leesville, La., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Patricia Minaldi, to receiving child pornography.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Hue Bui, 27, of Erath, La., entered a guilty plea on Wednesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge C. Michael Hill, to one count of wire fraud involving theft from Walk-On’s Bistreaux and Bar in Lafayette.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that the federal grand jury in Harrisburg returned an Indictment on Jan. 22, 2014 charging Nancy Sipe, age 47, York, with Wire Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: Chedna Charles, 25; James Richard Currey, 54; Christopher Robert Garten, 23; Osvaldo Gonzalez, 39; all of Orlando, Florida, and Amber Lynn Jones, 27, of Rome, Georgia, were indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a nationwide telemarketing scheme which defrauded persons throughout the United...