News from July 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on July 10, 2013, before Senior U.S. District Judge Wm. Fremming Nielsen, JOHN TODD SCOTT, a 29-year-old resident of Billings, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Mark R. Dain, 33, of Fairfax, Va., pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and admitted responsibility for fraudulent loan applications involving 22 different properties, which resulted in more than $7 million in losses to various federally insured financial institutions. Dain also agreed to the entry of a restitution order and personal money judgment for the full amount of the financial institutions’ losses.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area has just released a visitor use study that examines characteristics, trip preferences, and expenditures of visitors of the park. The park partnered with the University of Idaho to conduct a systematic random sample of visitor groups at 11 locations...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: (LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) - - Acting Special Agent in Charge Joseph W. Shepherd and William J. Bryant, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock District Office of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), along with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced today that seven individuals were indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with Project Synergy, the largest-ever coordinated law enforcement strike against designer drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - The owner of a now defunct McAllen area durable medical equipment (DME) business has been ordered to prison for his role in a conspiracy and scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid through fraudulent billings, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced today. The scheme involved approximately $11.1 million in false claims to Medicare and Medicaid.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: A Sandusky man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for child pornograpyh crimes, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: David J. Pederson, 55, an inmate at the Federal Prison Camp at Marion, Illinois, pled guilty today in United States District Court in Benton to an indictment charging him with escaping from custody while on an unescorted transfer between that facility and one in Council Bluffs, Iowa, announced Stephen...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON—As part of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) continued commitment to public safety in Puerto Rico, the Department will expand Operation Caribbean Resilience. The operation, which focuses on interrupting and dismantling ...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: Announcement Complies with Presidential Directive to Create Jobs Through Biobased Product Procurement WASHINGTON, July 11, 2013 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated eight new biobased product categories for preferred Federal procurement. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today the launch of a new educational video to assist employers in avoiding charges of discrimination in the employment eligibility verification form I-9 process and in the use of E-Verify. The video also helps educate employees about their legal rights. The Office of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: Joseph Massimino was sentenced today to serve 188 months in prison for his participation in a racketeering conspiracy involving extortion, loan sharking and illegal gambling, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Edward J. Hanko, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Philadelphia Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: A Las Vegas mortgage agent has been convicted for his role in a “cash back at closing” mortgage fraud scheme that netted $1.43 million in fraudulent mortgage loans, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden of the District of Nevada, and Acting Special Agent in Charge William C. Woerner of the FBI’s Las Vegas Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today the filing of a lawsuit, against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), alleging that CDCR discriminated against Joe B. Cummings on the basis of his sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended. Title ...
By Fed Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: Elizabeth A. Duke submitted her resignation Thursday as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, effective Aug. 31, 2013.
By Commerce News Now | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: 29 of top 50 metropolitan areas set new records U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today announced that in 2012, the 50 U.S. metropolitan areas that achieved the greatest levels of exports sent more than $1 trillion in merchandise all over the world, an increase of nearly $43 billion from 2011. ...
By Commerce News Now | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today announced that in 2012, the 50 U.S. metropolitan areas that achieved the greatest levels of exports sent more than $1 trillion in merchandise all over the world, an increase of nearly $43 billion from 2011. For the first time ever, the Houston metropolitan area ranked No. 1, with total exports of $110 billion (an increase of 5.6 percent over 2011). The New York City metro area ranked second with $102 billion in exports.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 11, 2013
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on July 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 11, 2013
The US Transportation Department published a six page notice on July 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Jul 11, 2013
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on July 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 11, 2013
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on July 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
