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Press Releases for the Month of November 17, 2009
2009 - Nov 17 - SALT LAKE CITY - STATEMENT OF U.S. ATTORNEY BRETT TOLMAN ON US v WANDA BARZEE
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2009 - Nov 10 - SALT LAKE CITY - Claud R. Koeber aka Rick Koerber, indicted earlier this year in connection with an alleged fraudulent investment scheme, is charged with several new violations of federal law in a 22-count superseding indictment returned late Tuesday afternoon by a federal grand jury in Salt Lake City.
2009 - Oct 15 - SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment Wednesday afternoon charging John E. Worthen and Laura Olson, both residents of Salt Lake County, with conspiracy, tax evasion and false statements in a scheme to defraud the IRS in its efforts to compute, assess, and collect federal income taxes.
2009 - Oct 14 - SALT LAKE CITY - Brett L. Tolman announced today that he will resign from his position as United States Attorney for the District of Utah effective Dec. 31, 2009 or when a replacement is nominated by the President and confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
2009 - Sept 16 - SALT LAKE CITY - A federal judge today sentenced Jeanne Redd, age 59, and her daughter, Jericca Redd, age 37, both of Blanding, Utah, to terms of probation for their felony convictions as a part of a large artifacts case being prosecuted in Utah.
2009 - Sept 3 - SALT LAKE CITY - William James Viehl, age 23, of Layton, charged in a two-count indictment returned in March with damaging and interfering with the operation of an animal enterprise in connection with an early morning Aug. 19, 2008, attack at the McMullin mink farm in South Jordan and an attempted attack Oct. 18, 2008, at the Mathews mink farm in Hyrum, has pleaded guilty to the McMullin attack.
2009 - Aug 26 - SALT LAKE CITY - Robert Lavern Davison, age 41, of Kelseyville, California, arrested in February after he attempted to persuade a minor from Utah to travel to California to engage in sexual activity with him, pleaded guilty to one count of coercion and enticement for illegal sexual activity in federal court Monday.
2009 - Aug 26 - SALT LAKE CITY - Andre Mark Vasquez, age 65, of Salt Lake City, who pleaded guilty in May to multiple bank robberies in Utah and Nevada and several firearms charges, will spend 492 months in federal prison without the possibility of parole.
2009 - Aug 11 - SALT LAKE CITY - Jeremy R. McCandless, age 32, of Farmington, will be in federal court in Salt Lake City Wednesday for a detention hearing following his arrest on a federal indictment charging him with 29 counts of unlawful distribution of oxycodone.
2009 - July 28 - SALT LAKE CITY - A federal indictment unsealed this morning in Salt Lake City charges a law firm, a property management company, and eight individuals with conspiracy to commit alien smuggling and visa fraud, encouraging and inducing illegal aliens to come to, enter, or remain in the United States, and visa fraud.
2009 - July 22 - SALT LAKE CITY - Dr. Warren R. Stack, who pleaded guilty in May to one count of conspiracy to commit distribution of a controlled substance, health care fraud and money laundering and two counts of health care fraud, will serve eight years in federal prison.
2009 - July 6 - SALT LAKE CITY -Jeanne Redd, age 59, of Blanding pleaded guilty to seven counts of trafficking in stolen artifacts, theft of government property, and theft of tribal property Monday morning in Salt Lake City in connection with a two-year undercover operation targeting a network of individuals allegedly involved in the sale, purchase, and exchange of artifacts illegally taken from public or Indian lands in the Four Corners region of the country.
2009 - July 6 - SALT LAKE CITY - Fourteen individuals are charged in three federal indictments -- two returned Wednesday and one returned in June -- with violations of federal drug laws in connection with the alleged distribution of cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine in Utah.
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January
2009 - January 20 - LAYTON -- Dr. Paul Ray Taylor, 64, of Layton pleaded guilty to one count of distribution of oxycodone in federal court Friday morning.
2009 - January 20 - SALT LAKE CITY – In an agreement reached with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Utah, the University of Utah Hospital has agreed to pay $474,986.24 to settle an issue involving the hospital’s billing of Medicare for IV infusion therapy services.
2009 - January 20 - SALT LAKE CITY – A federal grand jury returned an 11-count indictment last night, unsealed this morning, charging Martin Joseph MacNeill and Gypsy Jyll Willis, aka Jillian Giselle MacNeill, with misuse of a Social Security number, aggravated identity theft, and making a false statement.
February
2009 - February 6 - SALT LAKE CITY – Randall R. Cook, 58, former manager of the Logan City Landfill, pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to a misdemeanor count of negligently discharging a pollutant into water which ultimately entered into Cutler Reservoir.
2009 - February 25 - SALT LAKE CITY - U.S. District Judge David Sam imposed sentences today in federal court for four defendants and Focus on Children, a corporation, involved in facilitating a fraudulent adoption scheme involving children from Samoa.
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March
2009 - March 30 - SALT LAKE CITY - Two residents of South Salt Lake City are charged with one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of children in a federal indictment unsealed late last week in the first case charged as a part of efforts by the Utah Human Trafficking Task Force.
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2009 - March 17 - SALT LAKE CITY - A Kaysville businessman, who pleaded guilty in November to disposing of a hazardous waste without a permit, will serve a five-month prison sentence and pay a $10,000 fine.
2009 - March 5 - SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury returned an indictment Wednesday afternoon, unsealed today, charging two individuals with damaging and interfering with the operation of an animal enterprise in connection with an Aug. 19, 2008, attack at the McMullin mink farm in South Jordan.
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April
2009 - April 23 - SALT LAKE CITY - A federal indictment unsealed Monday in Salt Lake City alleges a Utah County man received more than $18 million for investment in one of two programs touted to investors – a foreign currency trading program and a real estate leveraging program.
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2009 - April 17 - SALT LAKE CITY - Thomas Wood, a practicing attorney from Cottonwood Heights, was sentenced today to three years in prison and fined $250,000 for corruptly endeavoring to impede the Internal Revenue Service and failing to file federal income tax returns for two years.
2009 - April 16 - SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury returned an indictment Wednesday morning charging Thomas J. Hook of Sandy and Gregory H. Christoffersen of Bountiful with filing false income tax returns for calendar year 2002.
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2009 - April 14 - SALT LAKE CITY - A federal jury returned a guilty verdict Thursday afternoon convicting Ira Burdell Wakefield of a March 4, 2008, armed robbery of Utah First Credit Union in Provo.
2009 - April 02 - SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City returned a two-count indictment Wednesday afternoon charging Tim DeChristopher with violations of federal law in connection with an alleged scheme to interfere with the competitive bidding process for the sale of BLM oil and gas leases in December.
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2009 - May 26 - SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment Tuesday morning charging Claud R. Koerber aka Rick Koerber, with mail fraud, wire fraud, and tax evasion in connection with an alleged fraudulent investment scheme he devised to get money from investors.
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2009 - May 8 - SALT LAKE CITY - Escort service operator Roy B. Hoskins today plead guilty to charges of attempted income tax evasion, the Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced.
2009 - May 8 - SALT LAKE CITY - Dr. Warren R. Stack pleaded guilty in federal court Friday morning to one count of conspiracy to commit distribution of a controlled substance, health care fraud, and money laundering and two counts of health care fraud.
June
2009 - June 30 - SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury returned an 11-count indictment today charging four Salt Lake City residents with conspiring to conceal profits stemming from their mergers and acquisition business from the IRS and under-reporting or not reporting income over a span of approximately seven years.
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2009 - June 24 - SALT LAKE CITY - A default order has been issued in U.S. District Court against Oscar Produce, Inc., of Salt Lake City, Utah, finding that the company failed to appear and answer a complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office on behalf of the U. S. Department of Agriculture.
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2009 - June 24 - SALT LAKE CITY - Twelve indictments charging 23 defendants with violations of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA) and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) were unsealed this morning in Salt Lake City following an undercover operation targeting a network of individuals allegedly involved in the sale, purchase, and exchange of artifacts illegally taken, in most cases, from public or Indian lands.
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2009 - June 24 - SALT LAKE CITY - The U.S. Attorney’s Office has agreed to a civil settlement of more than $1.7 million with David Barry Hendrickson of Highland, Utah, for knowingly submitting false claims to the United States government.
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2009 - June 11 - SALT LAKE CITY - FBI and BLM agents, joined by the U.S. Marshals and local and state law enforcement partners, were simultaneously arresting defendants and executing search warrants in Utah Wednesday morning following a more than two-year undercover operation targeting a network of individuals allegedly involved in the sale, purchase, and exchange of artifacts illegally taken from public or Indian lands in the Four Corners region of the country.
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July
2008 -July 23 - SALT LAKE CITY – A federal grand jury returned an indictment Wednesday afternoon charging Viliami Loumoli, age 20, of Salt Lake City with assaulting two Deputy United States Marshals and discharging a handgun in connection with the alleged assault.
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2008 - July 16 - SALT LAKE CITY – Foreign nationals in the United States illegally and involved in gang activities in local Utah communities should be on notice:
August
2008 - August 5 - SALT LAKE CITY - A jury returned a verdict Monday evening in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City finding Thomas T. Wood, guilty of corruptly endeavoring to impede the Internal Revenue Service and failing to file federal income tax returns for two years.
September
2008 - September 25 - SALT LAKE CITY - Brett L. Tolman, United States Attorney for Utah, has been appointed to the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee (AGAC).
2008 - September 8 - SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City returned a superseding indictment Wednesday charging John and Jana Gauruder with one count of attempting to evade payment of John Gauruder’s income taxes, pursuant to 26 U.S.C. § 7201.
October
2008 - October 2 - SALT LAKE CITY - A three-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury Wednesday morning charges a Kaysville businessman and a company he owns and operates with three violations of federal law in connection with the disposal of hazardous waste at the company both under the ground and in the sewer system.
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2008 - October 3 - SALT LAKE CITY - A military contractor accused of filing false claims has agreed to pay more than half a million dollars to settle a federal investigation involving equipment used to test nuclear missile technology.
2008 - October 8 - SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury returned an indictment Wednesday morning charging 18 individuals with violations of federal law relating to the distribution of drugs through internet pharmacy businesses based in Utah and elsewhere.
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2008 - October 31 - SALT LAKE CITY - As Utah voters go to the polls Tuesday to cast ballots in this year's general elections, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI in Utah are ready to handle any complaints of election fraud and voting rights abuses in consultation with the Department of Justice.
November
2008 - November 6 - SALT LAKE CITY - Susan M. Fisher, who worked for the IRS in Utah for 17 years, will serve 24 months of probation and pay a $1,000 fine after pleading guilty in federal court to a misdemeanor count of filing a false tax return for the 2004 tax year.
2008 - November 14 - SALT LAKE CITY - Jeffrey F. Geddes, age 39, of Park City, who has been working in Las Vegas, entered guilty pleas in federal court Monday to 56 counts of bank and wire fraud in connection with steps he took to get a credit line from Zions Bank by falsely representing that a company he owned was supplying stone tile to Home Depot.
2008 - November 21 - SALT LAKE CITY - The U.S. Attorney’s Office filed a civil complaint today in federal court seeking to recover damages arising from a fire in Price Canyon that burned approximately 3,200 acres in late June and early July 2002.
December
2008 - December 19 - SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment Thursday evening charging Michael Lee Johnson, age 61, of Sandy with operating an illegal gambling business and money laundering.
2008 - December 19 - SALT LAKE CITY - Elise Ann Peterson, age 44, of Salt Lake City, arrested last week after deputies from the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office found numerous pieces of mail and packages addressed to different names and addresses in her car.
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2008 - December 19 - SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury returned an indictment Thursday evening charging Andrew John Mullen, age 32, of Draper with one count of making false statements in a loan application to Washington Mutual for the purpose of influencing the bank to lend him $1 million to purchase a home in Draper.
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