News from August 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Kwame Essel Djanson, a/k/a Samuel Kofi Essel, a/k/a Quarmey Gyanson Essel, age 47, of Worcester, Ma (previously of Alexandria, Va) was convicted today by a federal jury of providing false information to naturalize, obtain a passport, and to obtain a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Carson City, Nev. man has been arrested on child pornography charges for secretly videotaping female victims in the bathrooms of his residence, and is scheduled to appear before a federal magistrate judge this afternoon, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) issued the following statement to day on the nomination of John Koskinen to be Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that Ben Scott was sentenced in United States District Court in East St. Louis to 120 months in prison, supervised release after prison for 8 years, an $800 fine, and $100 special assessment.
By State Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), passed, as amended, the Taiwan Policy Act of 2013 (H.R. 419), bipartisan legislation that expresses support for Taiwan and strengthens the U.S.-Taiwan relationship politically, economically and through security assistance.
By State Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on the recent developments relating to Edward Snowden in Russia...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Late this afternoon a federal jury in Las Cruces found Ernest Joe Marquez, 44, of Las Cruces, N.M., and Melchor Arroyos, 52, of El Paso, Texas, guilty on methamphetamine trafficking charges after a three-day trial. The guilty verdicts were announced by U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales, Joseph M. Arabit, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s El Paso Division, and Thomas G. Atteberry, Special Agent in Charge of the ATF’s Phoenix Division.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: At 5 p.m. Wednesday, Teton Interagency firefighters responded to a smoke report 4-miles west of Red Top Meadows subdivision on the Bridger-Teton National Forest near the border with the Caribou- Targhee National Forest. The South Fall fire is currently ¼ acre. Firefighters remained on the fire overnight.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Marcus Dontell Lloyd (35, Port Charlotte) pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit bank robbery, and one count of bank robbery. Lloyd faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison for the conspiracy count, and up to 20 years in federal prison for the bank robbery offense.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve Superintendent Susan L. Boudreau announced today that the whale waters vessel speed restriction in the area near Willoughby Island and Boulder Island will be lifted beginning 5AM Friday August 2.The whales that had been using this area have largely moved on to other feeding habitats.Whale waters at the mouth of Glacier Bay and in lower Glacier Bay remain unchanged.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and House Financial Services Chairman Jeb Henserling, R-Texas, sent a letter yesterday to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Richard Cordray about concerns that senior employees have left CFPB in order to profit from the very rules they helped create.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: Today the Committee is holding a hearing entitled, “The Status of the Affordable Care Act’s Implementation," under the pretense that House Republicans are interested in the implementation of the landmark law.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Robert Marzola, age 31, of Essex, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: Two self-proclaimed “citizens of the world" from Northeast Ohio were found guilty of conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service out of more than $8 million, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: Defendants Diverted Investor Funds To Purchase ‘Panoramic View Resort & Residences’ In Montauk, New York And Fund Lavish Lifestyles.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SOOZI FOLSOM, 55, of Westport, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 46 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for embezzling more than $1.3 million from three charitable foundations, and approximately $500,000 from her employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Lester Fernandez, Special Agent in Charge, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Inspector General, Ric L. Bradshaw, Sheriff, Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, Thomas Caul, Acting Special...
By State Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Following Venezuela’s highly contested presidential elections and in response to growing political polarization, sporadic acts of violence against political opposition members, and an absence of political dialogue, a bipartisan group of senators introduced a resolution today supporting Venezuelan democracy, and condemning violence and intimidation against the country’s political opposition.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Stanford Benally, 42, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Beclabito, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon to 30 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for his involuntary manslaughter conviction.
By State Newswire | Aug 1, 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 Russia’s decision to grant temporary asylum to Edward Snowden.
