News from December 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2013
News Release: The Heroin Epidemic -- Our Community’s Action Plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2013
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden man is charged in a scheme to produce and sell fake government documents after federal agents broke up his alleged fraudulent operation, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2013
News Release: Medicines Had Been Donated to be Used for Indigent Patients.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2013
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Florida: The Homestead National Parks Trolley program was made official Wednesday night at the Homestead City Council Meeting, when Everglades National Park Superintendent Dan Kimball and Biscayne National Park Superintendent Brian Carlstrom joined Homestead Mayor Jeff Porter in signing an...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - MICHAEL EDWARD FILMORE pled guilty to a multi-million dollar bank fraud against Pulaski Bank over several years while operating a medical equipment sales firm. In his plea agreement, Filmore admitted to fabricating and altering brokerage account records which purportedly showed he had...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2013
News Release: JABARI RAGAS, age 40, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged in a two count bill of information today with money laundering and filing a false tax return, announced U. S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2013
News Release: Timothy Stafford, 41, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Nashville, Tenn., for his role in the April 30, 2012, cross burning in front of an interracial family’s home in Minor Hill, Tenn., the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2013
News Release: Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, 9:00 a.m., Courtroom 13B.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Genzyme Corp. has agreed to pay $22.28 million to resolve allegations that it marketed, and caused false claims to be submitted to federal and state health care programs for use of, a “slurry" version of its Seprafilm adhesion barrier, the Justice Department announced today. Seprafilm is...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas- Glenn Wayne Baker, 60, formerly of Taylor County, Texas, appeared this morning in federal court, before U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings, and pleaded guilty to an indictment charging failure to register and update registration as a sex offender. He faces a maximum statutory penalty...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Juan Carlos Santiago, 36, of Providence, R.I., was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison for producing child pornography outside of the country and transporting it into the United States, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha; Colonel Steven G. O’DonnellSuperintendent of the Rhode Island State Police; and Bruce M. Foucart, Special Agent in Charge of the Boston field office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement today after President Obama announced his intent to nominate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) to be the Ambassador of the United States of America to the People’s Republic of China...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) lauded the Senate confirmation of Alejandro N. Mayorkas to be the Deputy Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The Senate confirmed Director Mayorkas by a vote of 54 to 41. Director Mayorkas was nominated by President Obama in June to fill this position, which has been vacant since April.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Glen Earl Cotonuts, age 54, of Towaoc, Colorado, was sentenced recently by U.S. District Court Judge Christine M. Arguello to serve 20 months in federal prison for failure to register as a sex offender, U.S. Attorney John Walsh and U.S. Marshal John L. Kammerzell announced. Following his prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that four Kansas City, Mo., men were charged in federal court today with armed robbery following a high-speed police chase that ended in a crash that sent one of the men to the hospital.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Oglala, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on Dec. 17, 2013, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2013
News Release: Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued a statement regarding an ABC News report that relied on partial leaks from Committee Chairman Darrell Issa of selective transcript excerpts of an interview with Teresa Fryer, the Chief Information...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2013
News Release: OAKLAND - A nine-count federal indictment charging four members of the Sem City gang was returned by the Grand Jury yesterday and unsealed today in federal court, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement after the Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released proposed changes for 501(c)(4) tax-exempt organizations rules.
