News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that FELIX HUMBERTO FIGUEROA-LOPEZ, age 42, a Honduran citizen, was sentenced today after having previously pled guilty to a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Purdon today announced Statoil Oil & Gas LP and Statoil Oil & Gas Services, Inc., of Austin, Texas (collectively "Statoil") have agreed to pay the United States $1,989,560.72 to resolve civil claims against Statoil relating to mineral trespass.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Carbofin S.p.A., an Italian domiciled company that owned and operated the M/T Marigola was sentenced to pay an overall criminal penalty of $2.75M by the Honorable Virginia M. Hernandez Covington for knowingly falsifying the vessel’s oil record book in violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS), announced the Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: Case is another Prosecution by United States Attorney Wigginton.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: After years of sitting on deteriorating wooden blocks, a 10-inch Columbiad cannon at Fort Sumter National Monument recently received a new replica carriage.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: Due to the weak strength of the El Niño, widespread or significant global weather pattern impacts are not anticipated. However, certain impacts often associated with El Niño may appear this spring in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, such as wetter-than-normal conditions along the U.S. Gulf Coast.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Olowaseun Adekoya, 29, a Nigerian National living in Sewaren, NJ, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 37 months in prison, after being convicted by a jury of bank fraud and conspiracy to commit bank fraud in New Hampshire, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that AMBROSE WILLIAMS, age 44, and ANTOINETTE KELLY, age 32, both of New Orleans, were sentenced today after having previously pled guilty to charges relating to their conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN - Joseph Glenn Etheridge, 37, of Marquette, Michigan, was sentenced to 70 months (6 years) in prison followed by three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. announced today. U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell handed down the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that APOLINAR MONJE-SANCHEZ, age 42, a native of Mexico, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count indictment for illegal entry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that TOMMY THOMPSON, age 29, a resident of Napoleonville, and STACEY MATTHEWS, age 43, a resident of Thibodaux, were charged on Feb. 12, 2015, in a twenty-count Indictment for violations of the Federal Controlled Substances Act. The indictment was recently unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: Gregory W. Gray, Jr., Senior Managing Director Of Buffalo-based Venture Capital Firm Archipel Capital, LLC, Charged With Defrauding Investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: A 12-count federal indictment was unsealed today charging Lawrence E. Tipton, 48, Angela G. Tipton, 46, both of Copley, and Ebony Brown, 41, of Stone Mountain, Georgia, with conspiracy to defraud the United States of America, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JULIE MERLIN ZANCO, age 44, of New Orleans, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to making false statements on income tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: Medicaid overbilled approximately $2.4 million. NORFOLK, Va. - Lisa Marie Barrett, age 50, of Norfolk, and Jaqueline J. Harris, age 34, of Portsmouth, were both sentenced yesterday for their roles in a massive Medicaid fraud conspiracy. Ms. Barrett was sentenced to serve a term of 96 months in prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - After a seven-day trial, a federal jury found Moo Hoon “Steve" Kim, 54, resident of Cypress, Calif., guilty today of mail fraud, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. The trial was held before United States District Judge William B. Shubb. Between 2006 and 2009, Kim ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: One Defendant Extradited, The Other Voluntarily Returned To Resolve Criminal Case.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) have requested information regarding a pending regulatory proposal to expand the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Gabriel Largo, 27, and Joshua Largo, 20, both enrolled members of the Navajo Nation who reside in Crownpoint, N.M., pled guilty this morning in federal court to federal assault charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James S. Moody, Jr. today sentenced Lamar “Budda" Wilson (33) to 10 years in federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute 28 grams or more of cocaine base, commonly known as “crack." He pleaded guilty on Nov. 14, 2014.
