News from December 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A federal jury has returned a guilty verdict against Marco Antonio Marchan, 45, for engaging in a conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute in excess of 1,000 kilograms of marijuana, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Aaron Derrow, 43, and Terrance Jackson, 35, both of Houston, have been sentenced for their roles in the robbery of the Wells Fargo Bank on Kirby Drive in Houston in December 2012, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Both pleaded guilty as did co-defendants Willie Wright III, 32, and Justin Levar Taylor, 33, both also of Houston.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Capping a year of bipartisan accomplishments, the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee met in executive session today to approve two health bills, the Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act and the Poison Center Network Act. Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) issued the following statement to mark the HELP Committee’s productive year in 2013...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: WICHITA FALLS, Texas- Three defendants, who pleaded guilty in late August 2013 to their respective roles in a major methamphetamine distribution conspiracy operating in Wichita Falls, Texas, were sentenced on Monday by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Paula Reid, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Secret Service (USSS), and José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announce that defendant Peter Michael Daniel, 29...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Thomas L. Wright, 63, of Bangor, Michigan, was sentenced in federal court to a term of fifteen years’ incarceration for producing child pornography. Wright was also sentenced to a lifetime term of supervised release. In sentencing Wright, Judge Robert Holmes Bell chastised Wright for sexually exploiting the victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: HUNTSVILLE -- A Huntsville man who was dubbed the Ball Cap Bandit because he often wore a ball cap during his crime spree pleaded guilty today in federal court to 11 counts of bank robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Marble Hill, Mo., man and a Shirley, N.Y., man have been indicted by a federal grand jury for a marijuana trafficking conspiracy in which the government has seized an aircraft and dozens of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ODED ORBACH, a U.S. citizen, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 25 years in prison for conspiring to provide material support to the Taliban and conspiring to acquire anti-aircraft missiles.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of New Stanton, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to eight months of home confinement and two years of probation on his conviction for aiding and abetting the making of false statements concerning matters within the jurisdiction of the Executive Branch of the United States, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Marble Hill, Mo., man and a Shirley, N.Y., man have been indicted by a federal grand jury for a marijuana trafficking conspiracy in which the government has seized an aircraft and dozens of firearms.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: Take a break from the cold winter weather at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore’s Paul H. Douglas Center. Stop by the center everySaturdayafternoon at1:30 p.m.and enjoy a fun and educational video about nature, environmental issues, or other national parks.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: Below Normal Snow Depth Delays Opening of Snow Play at Paradise.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: There has been much misinformation and factual inaccuracy in the reporting on the charges against Devyani Khobragade. It is important to correct these inaccuracies because they are misleading people and creating an inflammatory atmosphere on an unfounded basis. Although I am quite limited in my role...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: In Austin this afternoon, 56-year-old Russell Allen Erxleben of Dripping Springs, TX, pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud and money laundering charges in connection with a Ponzi scheme that authorities believe generated more than $2 million. As a result, Erxleben faces an agreed sentence of 90 months in federal prison plus full restitution to be determined by the Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: A felon who unlawfully possessed two firearms was sentenced today to more than eight years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - A south Florida man has pleaded guilty today for his role in a $10.5 million Medicare fraud scheme involving physical and occupational therapy services.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A New Kensington man pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal armed bank robbery and firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: Attempted theft at mining waste treatment site caused a substantial chemical leak, prompted shelter-in-place for nearby eastern Kanawha residents.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: Republicans have claimed that ending emergency unemployment compensation will improve the job prospects of unemployed Americans. Republicans point to North Carolina as a “real world" example, but the facts do not support that claim. (NC’s federal UI program stopped at the end of June because the state intentionally violated one of the program’s rules that prevent immediate cuts in weekly UI benefit amounts.).
