News from August 2013
By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: Petrified Forest, AZ - To help all understand and enjoy Petrified Forest National Park, experts in their respective fields are being invited to share their knowledge and enthusiasm in a reinvigorated in-park 'speaker series'. Presentations are scheduled for the first Wednesday of every month, and last approximately one hour.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: Fraud Scheme Was Based On False Billing For Services To Special Needs Students That Were Never Provided.
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. A U.S. District Court jury in Columbus, Ohio convicted Jack A. Morris, 37, of Columbus of gun and drug trafficking crimes. Morris faces a mandatory minimum sentence...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., M.D. (R-LA) released an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) response to his April 18, 2013 letter asking the IRS to document employees who leave their official duties to attend union training on the taxpayer’s dime.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: GREENBELT, Md. - - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Jose Joaquin Morales, age 37, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 262 months in prison followed by six years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute heroin and marijuana while he was in prison. Judge Titus enhanced Morales’ sentence upon...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: Steven Pitchersky, 64, of Rancho Mirage, California, was charged today by Information with one count of wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Pitchersky, who operated Nationwide Mortgage Concepts, a California mortgage lender, is accused of engaging in a scheme to defraud Ally Bank that caused the bank a loss of approximately $5.3 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JERMAINE DORE, a member of a violent robbery crew operating in the Bronx and Westchester County, New York, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 65 years in prison. DORE and his co-defendant Dwayne...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Kathleen D. McGrade, age 64, and Brian C. Collinsworth, age 47, of Stafford, Va., pleaded guilty today to major fraud against the government, conspiracy to launder monetary instruments, and engaging in unlawful monetary transactions.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement today regarding health insurance coverage for Members of Congress and their staffs. As Chairman of the HELP Committee, Harkin played a pivotal role in the passage of the health reform bill.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) made the following statement upon President Obama’s announcement to nominate John Koskinen as Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service...
By State Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today passed the Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, and Glen Doherty Embassy Security, Threat Mitigation, and Personnel Protection Act of 2013 to prevent future attacks on U.S. diplomatic posts.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: A man who possessed child pornography was sentenced Aug. 1, 2013, to ten years in federal prison.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: Washington -Today, United States Trade Representative Michael Froman and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced that the European Union (EU) will continue to provide U.S. beef producers with significant access, at zero duty, to the EU market for high-quality beef produced from non-hormone-treated...
By State Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Eliot Engel, the senior Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, released the following statement on U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s announcement that foreign national same-sex spouses will now be eligible for any type of visa including work, study, cultural or student exchange and legal immigrant visas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska-U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Fairbanks resident was sentenced in federal court in Fairbanks, Alaska, for his role in a conspiracy to tamper with evidence regarding a drug case.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - An Allegheny County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of distribution, receipt, and possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JOSEPH CASOLO, 45, of Norwalk, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty yesterday before United States Magistrate Judge Thomas P. Smith in Hartford to one count of extortion.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Ranking Member Jim McDermott (D-WA) introduced, H.R. 2925, The Strengthening Medicare Anti-Fraud Measures Act of 2013. The legislation would grant the Department of Health and Human Services Office of...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Josephine Cutolo, 54, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of deprivation of rights under color of law, was sentenced to one year probation to include six months home detention with electronic monitoring, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Hugh B. Scott.
