News from August 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Montgomery, Alabama - Edward Lincoln Forehand, age 68, of Dothan, Alabama, was sentenced today to 90 months on his convictions for securities fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering, announced the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Alabama and the Alabama Securities Commission (ASC).
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 2, 2013 - Today, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee held a legislative hearing on H.R. 2824, the Preventing Government Waste and Protecting Coal Mining Jobs in America Act, legislation to protect American jobs, save taxpayer dollars, and support U.S. energy production by stopping the Obama Administration from imposing coal regulations that would cost thousands of American jobs and devastate local economies.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - Billy Wayne Johnson, 55, of Scurry, Texas, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 30 years in federal prison and a lifetime of supervised release following his guilty plea in April 2013 to a superseding information charging one count of transportation of child...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: Impoverished Taxpayers Were Recruited to. Allow Their Names and SSNs to be Used in Filing Fraudulent Returns. DALLAS - Four defendants, whose trial was to begin this Monday on charges related to a tax refund conspiracy they were involved in regarding the misuse of the First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: Michael JMoore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Michael Dawes Hall, age 25, a resident of Tifton, Georgia, was sentenced on July 29, 2013 by the Honorable Hugh Lawson in United Sates District Court, Valdosta Division, to sixty-one (61) months imprisonment, to be followed by twenty-five (25) years supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced Anthony Frederick “Tony" Giaimis, 48, of Westlake, La., was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Patricia Minaldi, to 262 months in prison and five years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, 262...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: South Bend, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 2, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) and Water and Power Subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock (CA-04) today applauded the Senate passage of H.R. 678, the Bureau of Reclamation Small Conduit Hydropower Development and Rural Jobs Act, which...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: Fraudster Was Found Guilty of Running an Investment Fraud Scheme While Awaiting Sentencing on a Prior Securities Fraud Conviction.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: ICYMI, IRS Acting Commissioner Danny Werfel sent a letter today responding to extremely inflammatory accusations made on Tuesday by Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa and Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan that the IRS has been engaged in criminal obstruction of the Committee’s investigation into the treatment of applicants for tax exempt status.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Mythili Raman, the Acting Assistant U.S. Attorney General of the Criminal Division, and Michael E. Horowitz, the U.S. Department of Justice Inspector General, announced today the unsealing of a criminal Complaint (the “Complaint")...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Robert Gordon Shaw (37, Deleon Springs) pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of armed bank robbery. Shaw faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. Todd R. German, 51, of Richwood, Ohio was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 48 months in prison for possessing more than 10,000 images and 200 videos of child...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: Acting Under Secretary for Rural Development Doug O’Brien announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is accepting applications for grants to assist communities with extremely high energy costs.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - The U.S. Attorney's Office has charged the former executive director of the Jefferson County Committee for Economic Opportunity and her daughter in connection with the theft of close to $500,000 from the non-profit organization, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: EL PASO, Texas - Twelve individuals involved in the transportation and storage of large quantities of heroin, methamphetamine, and marijuana have been arrested and are facing federal prosecution announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, United States Attorney Robert Pitman, and Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Dennis A. Ulrich.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the Ways and Means Committee released draft legislation of the President’s proposals to strengthen Medicare. This follows several hearings in the Health Subcommittee on bipartisan proposals to secure the future of the program. The draft legislative text can be found at www.waysandmeans.house.gov/entitlementreform.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: On the evening of Aug. 11, 2013, Arches National Park will host a “Moon and Meteors" special event at Balanced Rock Viewpoint, 9 miles (14.5km) up the park road past the visitor center.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today issued a subpoena to Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew over the Internal Revenue Service’s increasing attempts to obstruct the Committee’s investigation into IRS targeting of Americans for their political beliefs.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: CRAIG, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Little Snake Field Office today released a preliminary environmental assessment for public review that evaluates offering 9 parcels totaling 7,435 acres north of Craig in its Feb. 13, 2014 competitive oil and gas lease sale.
