NASHVILLE – Three members of the MS-13 gang have been sentenced for their role in an enterprise that was involved in murder, attempted murder and witness tampering, the Justice Department said. Ernesto Isai Mendez-Tovar was sentenced to 13 years in prison; Eliseo Iglesias was sentenced to 17 years and 6 months; David Alexander Gonzalez got 19…
COLUMBUS— The National Association of Former U.S. Attorneys has awarded assistant U.S. Attorneys David Devillers and Kevin Kelly the 2008 award for the outstanding single trial in the nation. The two prosecuted Thomas A. Henderson, who murdered to people who provided information that helped convict him of a 1981 bank robbery in Macon, Ga. Macon…
KANSAS CITY – The president of a public water district and his wife, who served as the district’s clerk, pleaded guilty Tuesday to embezzling more than $390,000, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Stephen C. Collier, 62, and his wife, Sharron K. Collier, 62, both of Rich Hill, Mo.,pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Ortrie D. Smith…
White House catches a break in U.S. Attorney firings. By Carrie Johnson Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court declined yesterday to order current and former White House aides to testify before a House committee about the firings of nine U.S. attorneys, leaving the next Congress to decide how aggressively to pursue…
It’s not often that organized crime and hospice care are mentioned in the same breath. Now comes a case in Philadelphia. By Kitty Caparella Philadelphia Daily News PHILADELPHIA — The FBI’s organized-crime squad is investigating a Russian group for alleged Medicare fraud at the Home Care Hospice Inc. in the Northeast. At stake is $8.5…
Several days of digging for mobster bodies may have paid off. By Robert E. Kessler and Carl Macgowan Newsday EAST FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — FBI agents and personnel from the New York City medical examiner’s office believe they found the remains of a human body yesterday at an East Farmingdale location that an informant told them…
Four staffers for Rep. William Jefferson will have to take a field trip to Alexandria, Va., where their boss will stand trial on public corruption charges. It’s a trip, in all likelihood, they’d rather not take. By Bruce Alpert New Orleans Times-Picayune WASHINGTON — Four staffers for Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, have been subpoenaed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The exchanges between opposing sides in the Sen. Ted Stevens federal trial continued to heat up yesterday with the government calling the defense’s attacks “baseless.” “In their third attack on the government in one week, the defense continues to engage in baseless speculation regarding the government’s motives and conduct,”…
