News from April 2013
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: 1850s Ladies Chat About Bierstadt Boys.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: The former assistant chief of police for Centreville, Illinois, pled guilty in US District Court on April 25, 2013, to making false statements to federal law enforcement officers, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Corey Allen, 31, admitted that he lied to federal law enforcement officers while they investigated whether he sold a gun to a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in New Haven has found JAMES DICKERSON, also known as “Jim Jim," 30, of New Haven, guilty of conspiracy to distribute 28 grams or more of cocaine base (“crack cocaine") and distribution of crack cocaine. The jury returned the verdict today following a four-day trial before Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del), Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, joined his fellow Senate Finance Committee members, led by Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), in releasing a detailed analysis outlining a comprehensive...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Recently in federal court, a 36-year-old Duluth felon was indicted for possessing a nine-millimeter pistol and a.357-caliber revolver. On April 22, 2013, Ronald Paris Riles was specifically charged with one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Sold Fake Glass Art And Paintings Via Internet Postings.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that an Anchorage resident pled guilty yesterday in federal court to an indictment charging one count of felon in possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS- Yesterday in federal court, a jury found a 36-year-old felon guilty of possessing a.40-caliber, semi-automatic pistol. Following a three-day trial, a jury convicted Demario Kentrell Booker, of Minneapolis, of one count of illegally possessing a firearm after being previously convicted of a felony and while being an unlawful user of and addicted to a controlled substance.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The top Republicans on the Senate Finance and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committees want to know why American taxpayer dollars are being used to promote collective bargaining rights in foreign countries.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: ALICIA A. G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A Talladega County man serving more than four years in federal prison for mailing a series of hoax anthrax letters in 2010 has been indicted for mailing another series of threatening letters in 2011, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and U.S. Postal Inspector R. Frank Dyer.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: Two-Day International Conference on Open Data for Ag Starts Monday, April 29 WASHINGTON, April 25, 2013 -- With a goal of uniting scientific activities across borders to feed the world, agricultural leaders from the G-8 countries will begin a two-day conference in Washington on Monday. G-8 leaders will ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: A financial investor who purchased municipal tax liens pleaded guilty today for his role in a conspiracy to rig bids for the sale of tax liens auctioned by municipalities in New Jersey, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: A one-count indictment was unsealed today in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia charging Marta Rita Velazquez, 55, with conspiracy to commit espionage, announced John Carlin, Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security; Ronald C. Machen Jr., U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia; and Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it reached a settlement agreement with the Metropolitan School District of Decatur Township, Ind., to prevent and respond to peer on peer harassment in schools.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: Brandon Shane Mundy, a former police officer of numerous law enforcement agencies, the most recent being the Town Creek, Ala., Police Department, pleaded guilty today to violating the civil rights of a man during the course of an arrest. According to information presented to the court, on Nov. 22, 2009, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: A Southern California physician, a durable medical equipment (DME) supply company employee and a health care professional were found guilty late yesterday by a federal jury in Los Angeles for their roles in a $1.5 million Medicare fraud scheme, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: A federal jury today convicted a Miami-area supervisor of a mental health care company, Health Care Solutions Network (HCSN), for helping to orchestrate a fraud scheme that crossed state lines and that resulted in the submission of more than $63 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare and Florida Medicaid.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has reached an agreement with the city of Falls Church, Va., that will allow for the city, a covered jurisdiction under the special provisions of the Voting Rights Act, to bail out from coverage under these provisions. Bailout will exempt the city of Falls ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: Masood Chotani, a certified public accountant from Los Angeles , was sentenced today to 24 months in prison, followed by one year of supervised release, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Chotani was also ordered to pay $60,705 in restitution to the IRS.
