News from April 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - An Allegheny County resident has been convicted of violating federal narcotics trafficking laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2013
News Release: NEWARK - Former Jersey City Council candidate Lori Serrano today admitted to converting federal funds illegally for her own use, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - On Thursday, April 11, 2013, Ebon P. D. Brown, a/k/a "E-Murder" was sentenced in federal court to 92 months of incarceration on his conviction of violating federal firearm laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 22, 2013
News Release: CARLSBAD, New Mexico - Kids! Do you love to explore natural areas and learn about art, science, history and nature while helping to protect special places? Become part of a very special group that has been going strong since the 1930's - National Park Junior Rangers!.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2013
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on April 22, 2013, Burdon Lester, 29, Cannonball, N.D., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2013
News Release: MARSHALL, Texas - A 36-yesr-old Durango, Durango, Mexico, man has been sentenced to federal prison for immigration violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 22, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement after Ways and Means Republicans scheduled a Wednesday mark up of H.R. 807, a bill to prioritize the payment of our nation’s bills in the event of a default. The mark-up will take place Wednesday, April 24, at 10 a.m., in Room 1100 of the Longworth House Office Building...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 22, 2013
News Release: During National Volunteer Week, April 21-27, the National Park Service Outer Banks Group celebrates the volunteers that work at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Wright Brothers National Memorial and Fort Raleigh National Historic Site.This past year, these volunteers donated a total of 18,140 hours!.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jermaine Howard, 38, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of using a communication facility (telephone) to facilitate a federal narcotics felony, was sentenced to 77 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2013
News Release: SAN JUAN, PR - Friday evening Brenda Velàzquez-Corchado, a former procurement official with the Puerto Rico Department of Education (PR DOE) was found guilty of conspiracy to commit a violation of Title 18 USC Section 666(a)(1)(B), Bribery Concerning Programs Receiving Federal funds, announced United...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2013
News Release: David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kimberly K. Mertz, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the FBI, announced that SEAN DORAN, 21, of East Hampton, pleaded guilty today before Chief United States District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to one count of intentionally conveying false or misleading information and a hoax by leaving a fake bomb device at the front doors of East Hampton Middle School on Jan. 12, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on April 18, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, TALEAH COLLEEN RALSTON, a 28-year-old resident of Hardin/Billings, appeared for sentencing. RALSTON was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2013
News Release: RICHARD S. HARTUNIAN, United States Attorney, Northern District of New York, announces that AMADIS HUNTER, age 25, of Syracuse, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Syracuse to 89 months imprisonment for his role in conspiring to engage in a pattern of racketeering activity through his membership in the Bricktown Gang, a violent street gang operating on the streets of Syracuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2013
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that lawyer Francis C. Broussard, 53, of West Monroe, La., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Robert G. James Friday to making false, fictitious, and fraudulent claims to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in an attempt to receive more than $9.7 million in tax refunds.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 22, 2013
News Release: Rocky Mountain National Park staff are considering making improvements at four locations in the Wild Basin area located in the southeast part of the park. These four locations include the picnic area located just west of Copeland Lake, the winter turn-around located midway along the road that leads to...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 22, 2013
News Release: HOMESTEAD, FL: Everglades National Park's nationally award winning volunteer program is hosting an event for National Park Service Volunteers-in-Parks Day, this Saturday, April 27, 2013. The volunteer event is at the park's historic Nike Missile Site, one of America's best preserved sites from the Cold...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 22, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, outlined several concerns regarding S. 743, the Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA) and said the legislation should move through regular order to allow the committee process to resolve a number of technical problems with the underlying bill. The Senate will vote on a Motion to Proceed to S. 743 this evening.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2013
News Release: Falsified Home Buyers’ Information to Generate Fraudulent Loan Applications.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Two members of a Dodge City street gang charged in a federal racketeering case have pleaded guilty, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2013
News Release: Ralph Lauren Corporation (RLC), a New York based apparel company, has agreed to pay an $882,000 penalty to resolve allegations that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by bribing government officials in Argentina to obtain improper customs clearance of merchandise, announced Mythili Raman, the Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, and Loretta E. Lynch, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
