News from January 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) today released the deposition transcript of John C. Beale. Beale was sentenced December 18th 2013 for defrauding the U.S. Government of nearly $900,000 in his senior...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - A southeastern Illinois man, Jordan L. Clark, 23, of Marshall, Ill., appeared in federal court this afternoon and pled guilty to misdemeanor charges of trespassing and damage to property of the National Park Service on Jan. 18, 2014. U.S. Magistrate Judge Byron Cudmore sentenced Clark to time served and ordered that Clark pay restitution in the amount of $3,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: Treated Disabled Federal Workers. DALLAS - Psychologist Michael Ellis Wolf, 62, of Dallas, was remanded into federal custody today after pleading guilty, before U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis, to an Information charging one count of health care fraud. Wolf faces a maximum statutory penalty of 10...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-A federal grand jury in the District of Minnesota, sitting in Minneapolis, recently returned the following indictments. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation, and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. Any sentence is determined by a federal district judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Mayra Garces, age 47 and Ivan Garces, age 45, Etters, Pennsylvania, were sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg on charges involving tax evasion and bribery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Roberta L. Allen has been sentenced for filing false tax returns that claimed over $600,000 in fraudulent refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Yolando Blount, aka Yolanda King, 32, of Macon, Georgia was sentenced on Friday, Jan. 22, 2014, to serve 324 months (27 years) imprisonment in a case of wire fraud, mail fraud, conspiracy, theft of public money...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - United States Attorney Ripley Rand announced that Angela Womack, age 51, of Jamestown, North Carolina, received a prison term on multiple counts of wire fraud and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Sherie Rena Pete, 24, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Iyanbito, N.M., was sentenced this morning to a year and a day in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for her involuntary manslaughter conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana - The United States Attorney's Office announced that a Grand Jury sitting in Fort Wayne, Indiana, returned the following Indictments on Jan. 22, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Five defendants were sentenced in federal court today by U.S. District Judge William H. Barbour, Jr. for their involvement in the kidnapping of Jashayla Hopson from East Kemper Elementary School on April 30, 2013, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Two men who were arraigned in June on a scheme to create a mobile, remotely operated, radiation emitting device appeared in U.S. District Court in Albany in separate proceedings today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Stella, Mo., man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for transporting a minor across state lines for illicit sex.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska: The National Park Service has selected five visual artists and three writers from more than 250 applicants to participate in the 2014 Artist-in-Residence program at Denali National Park and Preserve this year. For the first time, the program has been expanded to include winter residencies, which will take place in March.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Edmund Lee McCall, 39 years old of Montgomery, Alabama, was found guilty yesterday of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud, and six counts of aggravated identity theft after a five day trial held before United States District Court Judge William H. Albritton. The same jury found United States Postal employee Vanessa Valease Gordon not guilty of the same charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - United States District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton sentenced Robert Daniel Castillo, 50, of Vacaville, today to one year and one day in prison for workers’ compensation and disability benefits fraud, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Judge Karlton ordered Castillo to pay $138,997 in restitution.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today released a GAO report showing Special Needs Plans (SNPs) were more profitable than Medicare Advantage plans serving the general Medicare population.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) today released the deposition transcript of John C. Beale. Beale was sentenced December 18th 2013 for defrauding the U.S. Government of nearly $900,000 in his senior...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CRAIG A. STANLAND, 40, of Stamford, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Minerva Sanchez, 47, was arrested at her home in Fremont today for conspiring to commit bank fraud in connection with a fraudulent short-sale scheme, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
