News from August 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - RUTH JACKSON was sentenced to 34 months in prison for embezzling over $50,000 by diverting checks and funds payable to The Flood Team, LLC. She was also ordered to pay restitution of $50,000.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today received the first in what is anticipated to be a series of responses from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), after agreement by the agency to acquire and provide for independent analysis the science behind multiple rules promulgated under the Clean Air Act (CAA). Vitter has been calling for the release of the information since March 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: OROVILLE, Calif. - The Drug Enforcement Administration Sacramento District Office in cooperation with the Butte County Interagency Narcotics Task (BINTF) arrested seven defendants on federal charges and executed eight federal search warrants today. A ten month long investigation of a methamphetamine trafficking organization culminated with these warrants, announced Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin Wagner.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Northwest Resource Advisory Council will meet Thursday in Grand Junction at the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Hunter Education Building, 711 Independent Ave. This is a new location from what was previously announced because of scheduling conflicts.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: MARSHALL, Texas - A 23-year-old Gilmer, Texas woman has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Joplin, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a wire fraud conspiracy following the May 22, 2011 tornado.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that Douglas W. Oliver, 47, of Fairview Heights, IL, pled guilty on Aug. 21, 2013 to charges of Conspiracy to Distribute Heroin, Possession With Intent to Distribute Heroin, and Maintaining Drug-Involved Premises.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that Roland Castro, 41, an inmate at the U.S. Penitentiary in Pollock, La., pleaded guilty to escaping a federal prison; and Timothy D. Willis, 49, of Philadelphia, Miss., pleaded guilty to assisting in Castro’s escape. United States District Court Judge Dee D. Drell presided over the guilty plea hearing on Tuesday.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Senior U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp sentenced Obnes Latigue (51, Orlando) yesterday to 13 months in federal prison for aiding in the preparation of false tax returns. As part of his sentence, Latigue was also ordered to pay $1,129,418 to the Internal Revenue Service in restitution and to serve one year of supervised release. Latigue pleaded guilty on May 23, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that Thomas Lee Stanton, 18, of Lebanon, Illinois, pled guilty in the United States District Court in East St. Louis to the charge of unlawfully possessing destructive devices. Stanton is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 13, 2013. At that time, he faces maximum penalties of up to 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and 3 years of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today released new information from the IRS that provides further evidence that progressive groups were singled out for scrutiny in the same manner as conservative groups. The documents include an IRS training presentation that...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA -The Benjamin Franklin Museum in Independence National Historical Park is re-opening to the public after a two year renovation project. Visitors are invited to Museum Preview Days, August 24 through September 19. The Grand Opening for the museum will be Sept. 20, following a reception on September 19 organized by the Friends of Independence National Historical Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Ricardo Avila, age 53, of North Dakota, appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on Aug. 19, 2013, and pled guilty to Count I of the Indictment that charged him with Distribution of a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today the unsealing of a superseding indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Sacramento, Calif., charging Teresa Marie Marty, Charles Tingler and Victoria Tingler, all of Placerville, Calif., with conspiracy to defraud the United States and filing multi-million dollar liens against government officials.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2013
News Release: Justice Department announced that a 14-count superseding indictment was unsealed today, charging JB Tax Professional Services Inc., Jacqueline J. Arias and Jose Bayron Estrada, of Spruce Pine, Ala., along with 19 foreign nationals, many of whom resided in the New Orleans area, with conspiracy to defraud ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2013
News Release: Kathryn Keneally, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Tax Division, announced today the guilty plea of Thomas Nastasi III, 46, of Mt. Kisco, N.Y., to one count of willful failure to pay the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) the payroll taxes of his company, Nastasi Maintenance & Construction LLC. Nastasi pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe in the Southern District of New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that Multi/Tech Engineering Services Inc., an engineering firm based in Salem, Ore., has agreed to pay more than $60,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging that it had violated the Fair Housing Act by designing Gateway Village Apartments with steps and other features ...
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By Labor Gazette | Aug 20, 2013
News Release: NEW YORK — The trustees of the pension plan, annuity fund and vacation fund of Exhibition Employees Local 829 of the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees in New York repaid a total of $2,256,817, with an additional $50,000 scheduled to be paid, to the funds following a consent judgment, ...
By USDA Wire | Aug 20, 2013
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Aug. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
