News from August 2013

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Western District of Louisiana. Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013. SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that the Western District of Louisiana U.S. Attorney’s Office and the IRS presented more than $119,000 to 26th Judicial District...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Christine Wright Darrisaw, 37, of Rochester, N.Y., who is currently under indictment for threatening to kill the President and making a false statement to Secret Service Agents, was arrested and charged with violating her conditions of pre-trial release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2013
News Release: To Embezzling Over $335,000 in Overtime Pay.
By State Newswire | Aug 20, 2013
News Release: New York - Ranking Member Eliot Engel, the senior Democratic member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement regarding today’s accusation by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan that Israel has played a role in the recent events in Egypt.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2013
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Jose Francisco Serna, of Mission, has been handed a significant federal sentence following his convictions of conspiracy to launder monetary instruments and conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Serna pleaded guilty Nov. 19, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2013
News Release: Defendants Trafficked Cocaine, Marijuana, MDMA, And Prescription Drugs And Laundered Tens Of Millions Of Dollars In Narcotics Proceeds - Agents Seized More Than 1,200 Pounds Of Marijuana, Approximately $2 Million In Suspected Drug Proceeds, 22 Handguns,.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Mark Olkowski, 62, of North Wildwood, NJ, was sentenced today to three months in prison for filing false personal income tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service from 2006 through 2009 and wire fraud. Olkowski, a business partner in K & O Sporting Goods on Moyamensing Avenue in Philadelphia...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Two Donora residents pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2013
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Sonia Leticia Solis, 54, has been charged with voting more than once in connection with the 2012 primary runoff election held in Cameron County on July 31, 2012, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III today announced the appointment of Assistant U.S. Attorney C. David Biggers, Jr. as the Western District’s Prevention and Reentry Coordinator.

By Commerce Newswire | Aug 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) issued the following statement on Secretary of State John Kerry’s decision to take four State Department officials, faulted in connection with the Benghazi terrorist attack, off paid administrative leave and not to pursue any disciplinary action, for any officials, in connection with security failures surrounding the Benghazi attacks.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2013
News Release: Midland resident and land surveyor Steven Leonard Prewit, age 54, faces up to ten years in federal prison after pleading guilty this afternoon to the possession of unregistered silencers in violation of National Firearms Registration requirements, announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, Bureau...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Fairbanks man was sentenced in federal court in Fairbanks, Alaska, for three counts of conspiracy and selling illegal drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2013
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Charles Wesley Bush, 33, of Knoxville, Tenn., was sentenced on Aug. 20, 2013, by the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, Chief U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 151 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2013
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - The Justice Department announced today that the engineering firm, Multi/Tech Engineering Services, Inc., (Multi/Tech) located in Salem, Oregon, has agreed to pay $60,902.70 to settle a lawsuit pending in the U.S. District Court of Oregon, which alleges that Multi/Tech violated the Fair...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today announced an agreement between the National Park Service (NPS) and Aramark to keep the Glacier Bay Lodge open for the next two summer seasons.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today ADEMOLA L. EJIRE, 53, pled guilty to mail fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1341.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2013
News Release: Oct. 18, 2013: Due to the federal government shutdown between October 1 and 16, the public comment period for the draft Seagrass Habitat Restoration.