News from December 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: Scheme Involved The Theft Of More Than 1,000 Account Numbers And Caused Losses Of At Least $2 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Wanblee, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for False Statements Relating to Health Care Matters and Attempt to Obtain Controlled Substances by Fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: Arches and Canyonlands national parks are open all year, but the parks' visitor center operations change with the arrival of winter.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) will speak before the International Aviation Club of Washington, DC on Wednesday regarding the state of the aviation industry and his plans for developing the next aviation reauthorization.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: BOISE - U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced today that two co-defendants-Samthana Jo Tackitt and Michael Scott Longhi-were sentenced to serve lengthy federal prison sentences for their involvement in a large scale Treasure Valley meth trafficking operation. The defendants appeared this week for sentencing before Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill at the federal courthouse in Boise.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that a felony Criminal Information charging Brian Michael Herdman, age 52, of Dingmans Ferry, Pennsylvania, was filed in the United States District Court in Scranton, Monday.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven today sentenced Joseph E. Thornton (34, of Largo) to 15 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Thornton pleaded guilty on June 27, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Today, in United States District Court, U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill, sentenced Mark Anthony Brown, 53, an inmate at the Idaho Correctional Center, on two counts of mail fraud, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Judge Winmill sentenced Brown to 33 months of prison, three years of...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has set a goal of investing up to $50 million to increase access to mental health care in rural areas over the next three years. The funding will be used for the construction, expansion, or...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Dec. 6, 2013, Todd Russell Fries, 50, of Tucson, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Cindy K. Jorgenson to 60 months in prison after he was found guilty by a federal jury on Aug. 13, 2013, of two counts of unlawful possession of unregistered destructive devices.Judge Jorgenson ordered that 20 months be served consecutive to the sentence of 151 months Fries previously received for unlawful possession and use of a chemical weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: Moved from Elk City, Oklahoma to Saratoga Springs, New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013. Follow @USAO_CT. NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Babar Ahmad and Syed Talha Ahsan pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to conspiring to provide and providing material support, including funds, personnel and...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: - Judge orders $112,012.44 restitution payment to former employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: TYLER, Texas - U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that 16 individuals have been arrested following a lengthy investigation into drug trafficking in the Eastern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: EVANSVILLE - Joseph H. Hogsett, the United States Attorney, announced today that Steve W. Pirnat, age 61, of Evansville, has been convicted and sentenced to 37 months in federal prison after admitting that he conspired for three years to submit false tax claims to the Internal Revenue Service. All told, the scheme cost taxpayers more than $222,000 in fraudulent tax refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Iris Peterson, 65, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation residing in Mescalero, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to theft from an Indian Tribal Organization.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: The 2014 Southeast Utah Group (Arches and Canyonlands National Parks and Hovenweep and Natural Bridges National Monuments) Annual Pass is now available for purchase ($25).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Elaine Lewis pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $300,000 from a church checking account, between 2009 and August 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: JASON CROSS, 35, a former New Orleans Police Officer, pled guilty this morning before U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo to a felony drug violation, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr. CROSS was charged by a bill of information, with attempting to possess with the intent to distribute a quantity of cocaine hydrochloride. CROSS pled guilty pursuant to a written plea agreement and signed a factual basis which was placed in the court record.
