News from April 2013
By Interior Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: Fort Sumter National Monument will present Living History programs on Saturday and Sunday, April 6-7 in observance of the 150th anniversary of the Ironclad Attack. Volunteers portraying members of the 1st South Carolina Artillery Regiment (Regulars) will provide interpretive programs for every tour boat to Fort Sumter on Saturday, April 6 and for the 9:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. boats on Sunday, April 7.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A man from St. Marys, Kan., has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for drug trafficking, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday today sentenced Remesa Buemer to 5 years and 5 months in federal prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. As part of the sentence, the court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $159,265.60, a portion the proceeds of the charged criminal conduct. Buemer was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $462,039.60.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: James L. Quirin, 58, formerly of Columbia, IL, and now residing in Sauget, IL, was charged in a superseding federal indictment returned on Tuesday with four new counts alleging felony Tax Evasion and False Filing, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: STATESBORO, GA: The federal grand jury sitting in Savannah, Georgia returned six indictments yesterday charging 12 defendants with 115 violations of federal law involving fraudulent tax returns. The federal crimes charged in these indictments range from a conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: In a letter to Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, Dr. Coburn asks the department to outline how it is planning to ensure $16 billion in Hurricane Sandy grants will be awarded properly after the department’s inspector general released a report detailing how 24,000 noncompliant...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: You can tell much about a person by their possessions. That is definitely true of Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife Mamie. Some of the many possessions they amassed in their 53 years of married life are now featured in a book, Eisenhower National Historic Site Museum Collections.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jeannette N. Awasum, the former owner of a health care provider, pled guilty today to a federal charge stemming from falsifying records in connection with a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services audit.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - CVS Pharmacy, Inc., and Oklahoma CVS Pharmacy, L.L.C., (collectively “CVS"), have agreed to pay $11,000,000 to the United States to settle civil penalty claims for record-keeping violations under the Controlled Substances Act and related regulations, announced Administrator Michele M. Leonhart of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Yesterday in federal court in St. Paul, a 27-year-old Farmington man and 29-year-old Apple Valley woman pleaded guilty to the armed robbery of America’s Best Value Inn and Suites in Northfield. On April 2, 2013, Eric Wade Forcier pleaded guilty to two counts of interference with commerce...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
Release: WASHINGTON, DC, April 3, 2013 - Agriculture Undersecretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services Kevin Concannon today announced Washington and Ohio have joined a new federal-state partnership targeting recipient fraud in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as part of its SNAP Stewardship...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiring with others to distribute methamphetamine in South Dakota and elsewhere from August 2009 to February 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ALEXANDER GARAY, 36, of Hartford, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 115 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that Fluor Hanford LLC (Fluor) has agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle allegations that Fluor violated the False Claims Act by using federal funds for lobbying. Fluor is a Department of Energy (DOE) contractor that performs management and engineering...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Saluda, South Carolina man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Pay Legal Child Support.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly assaulting a young female companion on four different occasions in 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Hermosa, South Dakota man convicted of two counts of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury and one count of Escape, charged in two separate criminal cases, was sentenced on April 1, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has rejected a Second Amendment challenge to a federal statute which imposes stiff punishment on drug traffickers who possess firearms to further their drug-trafficking...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Renee Pelletier, 59, of Weare, pleaded guilty to bank fraud in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - U.S. District Judge C. Lynwood Smith Jr. this week sentenced an Etowah County woman to nearly five years in prison for stealing more than $900,000 from her former employer through fraud and identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.
