News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Raleigh - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker, along with the United States Justice Department, announced today that as part of its Barrier-Free Health Care Initiative, it has reached a settlement with the Fayetteville Pain Center under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The settlement resolves allegations that the Fayetteville Pain Center violated the ADA by refusing to treat a woman because she has HIV.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Reps. Joe Pitts and Bill Cassidy and Sens. Chuck Grassley, Orrin Hatch, Lamar Alexander and Michael Enzi today sought details of the federal government’s long-overdue attention to the qualification of the participants in a federal discount prescription drug program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Jimmy Wayne Sissom, 46, has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction on one count of bankruptcy fraud, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Sissom, of Bastrop, was the owner of Dealers Management Group Inc., a used car company located in Houston and a partner in F&S Storage Company in Katy. He pleaded guilty to the charge, Sept. 27, 2012.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Region 1 News Release: 13-136-BOS/BOS 2013-014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Allegheny County pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Reps. Joe Pitts and Bill Cassidy and Sens. Chuck Grassley, Orrin Hatch, Lamar Alexander and Michael Enzi today sought details of the federal government’s long-overdue attention to the qualification of the participants in a federal discount prescription drug program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Scottsdale, Arizona man was sentenced on Jan. 28, 2013 by United States District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By State Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator John Kerry today spoke on the floor of the United States Senate for the last time as the Senator from Massachusetts to thank his colleagues, staff, and constituents for their support and friendship over the past 29 years, and talk candidly about the importance of the Senate functioning effectively.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA- United States Attorney Donald J. Cazayoux, Jr., announced that TERENCE NDANGOH, age 25, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge Brian A. Jackson to twenty-one (21) months of imprisonment. NDANGOH was also ordered to repay victims $138,239 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: POCATELLO - Ryan Wasia, 26, of Pingree, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court in Pocatello to 40 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of a mixture containing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also fined Wasia $1,000. He pleaded guilty to the charge on Aug. 29, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Presho, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury. Jeffery Jessop, age 50, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Jan. 16, 2013 for Unlawful Taking of Bald and Golden Eagles and Migratory Birds and Lacey Act Violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: SAN JOSE - Rodney Hatfield pleaded guilty in federal court in San Jose today to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, United States Attorney MELINDA HAAG announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 NEW ORLEANS—Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today traveled to New Orleans to highlight the Department’s role in supporting security operations for Super Bowl XLVII, and the continued partnership with the National Football League ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division will leave the department on Mar. 1, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: A federal court in Indianapolis has barred David Ray Franklin and his company, Instant Refund Tax Service (IRTS) – which does business as Instant Tax Service—from preparing tax returns and from operating a tax-preparation business, the Justice Department announced today. Instant Tax Service is a national ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: Willie C. Grant, a tax return preparer from Macon, Ga., was sentenced to 60 months in prison by for filing false claims for tax refunds, theft of government money and aggravated identity theft, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. U.S. District Court Chief Judge C. Ashley Royal also ordered Grant to pay over $200,000 in restitution to the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: Christopher B. Berg of Portola Valley, Calif., entered a plea of guilty today before the U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., to an information charging him with willful failure to file the required report of foreign bank account (FBAR) for an account he controlled at UBS in Switzerland in the year 2005.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: Delane F. Alston, a resident of Rocky Mount, N.C., pleaded guilty today before Judge Terrence W. Boyle to two counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false federal income tax returns, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. Alston’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for May 6, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: Ryan Lohr, 26, a former correctional officer at the Roxbury Correctional Institution (RCI) in Hagerstown, Md., pleaded guilty today to conspiring to obstruct justice and destroy evidence from a March 9, 2008, assault of an inmate by RCI officers.
By Fed Newswire | Jan 30, 2013
News Release: Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in December suggests that growth in economic activity paused in recent months, in large part because of weather-related disruptions and other transitory factors. Employment has continued to expand at a moderate pace but the unemployment ...
