News from August 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican man was sentenced today on drug and weapon related charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Marijuana poses a significant risk to public health and its cultivation, distribution, and possession remains illegal under federal law. The Department of Justice is committed to enforcing the Controlled Substances Act, and will use its limited investigative and prosecutorial resources to address the most significant threats posed by illegal drug trafficking.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC-Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement regarding new executive actions unveiled today to prevent criminals from obtaining guns and to ban re-imports of military surplus firearms to private entities.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever, III, sentenced Omar Fogg, 34, of Kinston, North Carolina, to 108 months imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: Devils Tower to Host Western Cultural Festival and Cowboy Poetry Festival.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: Men are Charged in Federal Court; Court Orders Them Held Without Bail.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: An Ohio man pleaded guilty today to one count of violating the Clean Water Act, said Steven M. Dettelbach, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), and Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today released the first paper in...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) made the following statement in response to the Social Security Disability Insurance fraud conspiracy in Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today against a Cambridge man previously charged with making false statements during the Boston Marathon bombing terrorism investigation.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), and Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today released the first paper in...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Alan Messner, 41, of Rolling Meadows, Illinois, pled guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to one count of tax evasion related to his failure to report $284,500 in income he received in 2006 and 2007.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams, Jr. sentenced John Bernard Williams, age 48, of Fort Washington, Maryland, today to 112 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit, and committing the armed robbery of an armored vehicle, and possession of a firearm in connection with a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Angel Food Ministries (AFM) Founder Wesley Joseph (Joe) Wingo, his son, Andrew (Andy) Wingo and his wife, AFM Co-Founder Linda Wingo were sentenced today by the Honorable C. Ashley Royal, Chief United States District Judge, for illegal financial activities involving AFM.
By State Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the statement below following the national security call on Syria that just concluded.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, announced that three individuals were charged with being in the United States illegally, in separate cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - A federal jury in Galveston has returned a guilty verdict against David Paul Roetcisoender, 72, of Pearland, for distribution and possession of child pornography, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. The verdict was returned late yesterday following a two-day trial and approximately two hours of deliberation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Four men from Haverstraw, N.Y., and Philadelphia, Pa., have been charged in federal court with conspiring to engage in the sex trafficking of a minor, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Ronald Darnell Sweeney, Jr., age 21, was sentenced today to 240 months’ (20 years) imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones, III, for the violent armed carjacking that left the victim paralyzed below the waist. Judge Jones further ordered that Sweeney serve three years of supervised release. The request for restitution has been deferred for 90 days.
