News from July 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Chad F. Summers, 40, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to receipt of a visual depiction of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Summers will be sentenced to 15 years in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - 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.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Jacob Daniel West, 33, has entered a plea of guilty to transporting a minor with the intent to engage in sexual activity, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Joseph Massimino, 63, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 188 months in prison for his participation in a racketeering conspiracy involving extortion, loan sharking, and illegal gambling. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Eduardo C. Robreno ordered three years of supervised release. Massimino must also pay a $5,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Springfield man with a prior child pornography conviction has pleaded guilty in federal court to possessing child pornography.
By State Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Chairman Robert Menendez released this statement following a posthumous guilty verdict today in a Moscow court against Sergei Magnitsky for tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a 27-year-old Fridley man pleaded guilty to transporting a minor to engage in prostitution. Napoleon Long, Jr., pleaded guilty to one count of transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity. Long, who was charged via an Information, entered his plea before United States District Court Judge Richard H. Kyle.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Gurdy Farmer, Jr., 25, of Choctaw, Mississippi, pled guilty in federal court today to abusive sexual contact of a minor, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced. The offense occurred within the boundaries of the Tribal Lands of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: A local paraglider made a forced landing in Death Canyon Wednesday afternoon, July 10, triggering a search and rescue operation in Grand Teton National Park. Teton Interagency Dispatch Center received a call for help at 4 p.m. for Rebecca Bredehoft, age 29, of Jackson, Wyoming, after she took a hard landing about 4.5 miles up canyon from the Death Canyon trailhead. Bredefhoft sustained serious injuries during that landing.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA. Springfield Armory National Historic Site is pleased to welcome the 215thUnited States Army Band to perform with its full complement of 42 musicians. Join us on Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at 7:00 PM. Admission is free. Inclement weather moves the concert indoors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: (NEW ORLEANS) - - Norman Ratcliff, aka “Turk," 21, a resident of New Orleans, pled guilty today in federal court to various federal violations stemming from a 34 count second superseding indictment. Ratcliffand several of his associates were charged with participating in a violent drug gang that operated in the Holly Grove area of the City of New Orleans.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: Fast, portable, and comparatively inexpensive, an improved seed-sorting machine developed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist and an industry colleague is helping plant breeders and others separate the seeds they want from those they don't, with an impressive degree of accuracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - A Springfield, Ill., man, Michael A. Carr, 50, of St. James Court, has been charged with concealing assets and making false statements related to bankruptcy proceedings, as announced by Jim Lewis, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois. The federal grand jury returned the 10-count indictment late yesterday afternoon. The U.S. Clerk of the Court will issue a summons to Carr to appear in federal court in Springfield for arraignment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Berdell Christopher Shot, age 29, of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on July 10, 2013, and pled guilty to Sexual Abuse of a Minor.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: We cannot meet the needs of federal law enforcement, prosecute criminals, protect public safety, or invest sufficiently in scientific research and development with an allocation this low.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 11, 2013 - Today, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation held an oversight hearing on “Wildfire and Forest Management." The hearing focused on the need for increased forest management to reduce hazardous fuels and the risk of catastrophic wildfires.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on May 23, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen, EDGARD ENRIQUE LE, a 29-year-old resident of Escondido, California, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - STEPHEN B. EVANS was sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay $154,000 restitution on mail and wire fraud charges involving his failure to pay clients and expenses, and instead keeping client settlement funds for himself.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA- On July 11, 2013, Douglas John Howard, a 50 year-old resident of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, was sentenced by Chief Judge James E. Gritzner to 121 months imprisonment for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt.
