News from April 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: At a Senate Finance Committee hearing today, Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said the IRS must take immediate action to combat tax fraud and identity theft, and called on the acting IRS commissioner to do more to help victims and protect taxpayers’ information. Senator Baucus noted that tax ID theft has jumped by more than 650 percent since 2008, and more needs to be done to guard personal information, cut red tape and crack down on thieves who pose as tax return preparers.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Kevin James Fitzgerald, 19, of Tucson, Ariz., pleaded guilty this morning in Las Cruces federal court to methamphetamine trafficking charges under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that GREGORY L. CRABTREE of Proctorville, Ohio, and JAMES M. DONNAN, III, of Athens, Georgia, have been charged in an eighty-five count indictment returned against them last week and unsealed today. The indictment charges the two men with operating an alleged pyramid or “Ponzi" scheme between 2008 and 2010 in the Middle District of Georgia and elsewhere.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: HAROLYN BONNER, age 49, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty in federal court today before U. S. District Court Judge Lance M. Africk to theft of government money, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: San Francisco - A former San Francisco investment banker and his college friend both pleaded guilty today for their roles in an insider trading scheme involving two impending corporate mergers, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag and Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department's Criminal Division.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., April 16, 2013 - Today, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power held an oversight hearing examining the spending priorities outlined in the President’s FY2014 budget requests for the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), the four Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs)...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: An Indiana man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for hate crimes stemming from the arson of the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo, law enforcement officials announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on a charge of possession with intent to distribute heroin, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A convicted sex offender living in Jefferson County, Kentucky, was sentenced in United States District Court today, by Senior Judge Thomas B. Russell, to 33 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for failing to register with the Kentucky Sex Offender Registry after moving to Kentucky, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif., April 16, 2013 -High temperatures combined with a light snowpack will allow for an early start to plowing area roads this spring. The Town of Mammoth Lakes (TOML) will begin plowing roads in the Mammoth Lakes Basin on Wednesday, April 17th. Cal Trans will begin plowing to the Minaret Vista at the end of April, and TOML crews will begin plowing into Reds Meadow Valley soon after.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - On a vote of 416-0, the House of Representatives today passed H.R. 1163, the Federal Information Security Amendments Act of 2013, which updates the decade old the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: CARLOS CABRERA, age 42, a resident of Orlando, Florida, was charged today in a two-count superseding indictment by a Federal Grand Jury for his role in a conspiracy to transport destructive devices (M-60 Grenades) and machine guns (AK-47 automatic assault rifles and Colt M-4 automatic assault rifles), announced U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: BOISE - A federal jury in Boise late yesterday convicted Matthew D. Hutcheson, 41, of Eagle, Idaho, of seventeen counts of wire fraud, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Hutcheson is a former trustee and fiduciary for a number of multiple employer pension plans, including the G Fiduciary Retirement...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A physician’s assistant who operated a mobile health clinic based in Hesperia was sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison for distributing the powerful and widely abused prescription narcotic OxyContin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Scott Richard Swirling, 62, of Silver Spring, Md., pled guilty today to traveling interstate to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that the federal grand jury returned a Superseding Indictment charging Michael A. Zimmerman, age 56, of Dover with additional fraud and money-laundering offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: FARGO - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on April 16, 2013, Robert Redroad, Jr. of St. Michael, N.D., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to charges of burglary of a post office and conspiracy to commit bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: RICHARD P. MOLENAAR, III, 47, a resident of Las Cruces, New Mexico, was charged today in a one-count bill of information with conspiracy to commit bribery, announced U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that two individuals involved in a New Haven drug distribution ring have pleaded guilty in Hartford federal court. RUFUS HUNTER, also known as “Triple Black," 30, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today to one count of...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A Brownsville federal grand jury has indicted two Mexican fishing boat crewmen for failing to heave to and obstructing boarding, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today along with Rear Admiral Roy Nash, Commander, Eighth Coast Guard District.
