News from August 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A former investigator for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission was sentenced to federal prison for theft violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) released additional excerpts from an interview with an IRS agent that was disclosed yesterday by Ways and Means Committee Republicans. Rep. Levin also issued the following statement on the transcript excerpt released by the Ways and Means Committee Republicans...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: Defendant Traveled To United States Intent On Committing Terrorist Attack -- Attempted To Bomb New York’s Financial District On Behalf Of Al-Qaeda.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to participate in a free ranger guided walking program on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. Participants are encouraged to meet at Outdoor Chattanooga (200 River Street) in North Shore Chattanooga at 1:30 p.m. for a 3-hour walking tour.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: Researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) may have their feet on the ground, but they're also the go-to experts when it comes to interpreting data from space.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Friday, August 9, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. COLUMBUS - Audrey Costar, 46, of Whitehall, Ohio was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 48 months in prison for using 50 stolen identities to file for unemployment...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - April J. Rampton, 42, formerly of Heber City, Utah, was sentenced Thursday to 21 months in prison for filing false claims for income tax refunds. U.S. District Judge Dee Benson also ordered Rampton to pay $230,678.36 in restitution to the IRS and to serve three years of supervised release upon her release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: National Park Service Unveils New Site Graphics for National Lakeshore.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: Effective 12:00am, Friday, August 9, 2013 fire restrictions will be lifted for the State of Utah, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), National Park Service and US Forest Service on lands within Carbon, Emery, Grand and San Juan Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: The Rising Sun Campground, located on the east side of the park, will be available to hard-sided camping only as of 9 a.m. tomorrow morning, Saturday, August 10.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today subpoenaed Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew for information related to the Committee’s investigation into the preferential treatment afforded to Delphi’s unionized employees during the bankruptcy and taxpayer-funded bailout of General Motors.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: Jose Rodriguez, 25, of Sharon Hill, PA, and Edwin Fernandez, 35, of Philadelphia were charged in a six count Indictment, unsealed today, in a case involving an alleged drug trafficking organization, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The defendants are charged with conspiracy to import...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Yesterday in federal court, a 37-year-old St. Paul man was sentenced for fraudulently obtaining funds from several financial institutions. On August 8, 2013, United States District Judge David S. Doty sentenced Christopher Terrelle Harness to 81 months in prison on one count of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. Harness was indicted on Nov. 20, 2012, and pleaded guilty on March 11, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: Little Rock- Christopher R. Thyer, Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas; Grover Crossland, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF); and Chief Mike Davis of the North Little Rock Police Department; announced the arrest and return of two federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on August 8, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen, WILLIAM FORREST PAUL, a 29-year-old resident of Butte, was sentenced to a term of.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia,August 9, 2013- It’s butterfly season in the gorge! These colorful beauties can be seen throughout the area, including on this Saturday’s park walk along the Bluestone River. This is one of several ranger-guided walks and informal talks in New River Gorge National River and Bluestone...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - A La Grange Park man who had amassed a collection of tens of thousands of images and videos of child pornography was sentenced today to 12½ years in federal prison for transporting child pornography via computer. The defendant, NATHAN ARGER, 34, who was arrested in September 2011 when federal agents searched his residence, has remained in federal custody since he pleaded guilty in August 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2013
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in (SAC), Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and W. Brad Steube, Sheriff, Manatee County Sheriff’s (MCSO), announce today the arrest of two former Manatee Sheriff’s deputies, Tom Frank, 45, and Christopher Tucker, 39. Both Frank and Tucker were charged with Possession of Anabolic Steroids in violation of Florida State Statue 893.13(6)a.
