News from August 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: Defendant Sent Money To Bank Accounts In India, China, Canada, And Filed False Tax Returns In Order To Avoid Paying Taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that two Anchorage residents are charged with participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy that resulted in the death of a minor, as well as distributing heroin that resulted in the same death.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Dodge City man has pleaded guilty to a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon in connection with a federal racketeering case, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: A former employee of a financial brokerage firm who stole the identity of a client and fraudulently obtained over $36,000 from that client, pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Kimberley Brooks, 48, of Brownington, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Burlington to 18 months of imprisonment following her guilty plea to charges that she embezzled more than $157,000 from her...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: PHOENIX - A Venezuelan air force colonel has been sentenced to 19 months in federal prison for exporting military aircraft engines to Venezuela, following a joint probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Defense Criminal Investigative Service and FBI.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: A guided one hour walk that will focus on identifying some common trees of the Cumberland Plateau will be held at 10:00 a.m. (EDT) on Sunday, Sept. 1, at the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. Participants should meet at the Bandy Creek Visitor Center for an easy walk in the vicinity.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Friday, Aug. 23, 2013, the following people were arrested after being indicted for violations of the federal dog fighting statute and the federal gambling statute.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine and possessed a firearm in furtherance of the drug trafficking conspiracy pled guilty Aug. 13, 2013, in federal court in Sioux City.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A German national who used to work for United Airlines pleaded guilty this morning to making false bomb threats against flights operated by the international air carrier.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles man who recruited homeless people from the “Skid Row" section of Los Angeles as part of a widespread scheme to defraud Medicare and Medi-Cal by providing unnecessary health services was sentenced this morning to 18 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - A federal indictment was unsealed today charging three Midwest City women with conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Department of Education by making false claims for payment for tutoring sessions of students attending Oklahoma City Public Schools, announced Sanford C. Coats, United...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced the 2013 appointments to the Colorado citizen-based Southwest Resource Advisory Council, which advises the Bureau of Land Management on public land issues.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - BURTON DOUGLAS MORRISS pled guilty to tax evasion charges associated with his evasion of taxes on millions of dollars of income he earned between 2006 and 2009. According to his plea agreement, the tax liability Morriss attempted to evade in 2007 was $2,888,483. The total tax due and owing by Morriss for all tax years is $5,559,386.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Aug. 26, 2013, Johnner J. Ward Jr., 29, Abilene, Texas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on a charge of bank robbery and a charge of use and carry of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - Nadia Cavner, 53, of Springfield, MO, was sentenced today to five years of.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Abdias Roblero-Mazariegos, 32, an alien from Mexico, who was convicted of unlawful re-entry after being convicted of an aggravated felony, was sentenced to 24 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: An experimental foam containing insect-killing fungi is being tested by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists in the fight against ambrosia beetles, wood-boring pests that threaten the nation's $322 million avocado crop.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: Ron Borne will serve as acting superintendent of War in the Pacific National Historical Park beginning Aug. 13, 2013. He will serve at the park on Guam while the National Park Service (NPS) recruits for a permanent superintendent. Ron Borne follows Barbara Alberti who transferred to the Human Resources office of the Pacific West Region in San Francisco.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is releasing the Bayside Picnic and South Ocean Beach Parking Areas Removal and Relocation Environmental Assessment (EA) for public review and comment. This project proposes to remove and relocate the existing Bayside Picnic and South Ocean Beach Parking Areas in Maryland...
