News from July 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s, Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI) and Scott Israel, Broward Sheriff’s Office, announce the indictment of Thomas Edler, 48, of Weston, on child pornography charges. Edler has appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Patrick M. Hunt in Fort Lauderdale and was detained pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Providence Police Detectives Discovered A Loaded Firearm, Drugs Stashed Among Children’s Toys.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Yesterday in federal court, a 21-year-old Burnsville man was sentenced for possessing a stolen.40-caliber, semi-automatic pistol. On July 9, 2013, United States District Court Judge Joan N. Ericksen sentenced Wesley Rayvon Johnson to 84 months in prison on one count of possessing a stolen firearm. Johnson was charged on Feb. 21, 2013, and pleaded guilty on Feb. 22, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Michael Scaglione, Esq. Laundered More Than $750,000, Placed Under Arrest After Accepting An Additional $500,000 In Cash To Launder.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: POINT MARION, Pa: An awards presentation and reception will be heldon Fridayevening,July 19, at the Arts Monongahela Gallery in Morgantown to honor the thirteen area photographers who submitted entries in “Friendship Hill through the Seasons", a photo contest jointly sponsored by the Friendship Hill Association and Arts Mon. West Virginia University Photography Professor Michael Sherwin judged the submissions. Prizes will be awarded in both adult and youth categories.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Brandy Horvath withdrew hundreds of thousands of dollars of unreported income from New WV Mining’s accounts disguised as business expenses.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management plans to extend closure of the area burned by the Pine Ridge Fire to all public use due to potentially dangerous conditions and to reduce the potential of erosion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Little Rock - Christopher R. Thyer,United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and William J. Bryant, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock District Office of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), announced today that seven individuals were indicted by a federal grand...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today announced the full Committee will hold a hearing next Thursday July 18th at 9:30 a.m. titled “The IRS’s Systematic Delay and Scrutiny of Tea Party Applications."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - A Christian County, Kentucky resident, pleaded guilty in United States District Court today, before Senior Judge Thomas B. Russell, to charges of possession of an unregistered firearm and possession of firearms by a person convicted of a misdemeanor crime of violence, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the unsealing of numerous federal cases and other court actions involving attorneys, mortgage brokers, real estate professionals, and developers, who are charged with federal crimes pertaining to mortgage fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We could spend this hearing talking about when and how this policy change was announced. I might have preferred a different approach, but it’s not my job to speculate on best practices for the White House. It’s my job-our job-to continue to shape and guide reform so that it best serves the American people. To focus on policy, not politics.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today JASON LEMAR MEDLYN, 31, of Durham, North Carolina and IRESHIA DONTE SUMMERS aka ERIC SUMMERS, 35, also of Durham, North Carolina pled guilty before United States Magistrate Judge Robert B. Jones, Jr. to several firearms related charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Bristol, R.I., man previously convicted in state court on multiple drug trafficking charges, admitted to a U.S. District Court judge in Providence today that in December 2012, he broke into a Portsmouth, R.I., home and stole more than a dozen firearms, five of which were recovered from his residence, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: PHOENIX - On July 8, 2013, Indalecio Castro-Ponce, 40, of San Luis, Ariz. was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Susan R. Boltonto 240 months imprisonment and a $3,000 fine. Castro-Ponce was found guilty by a federal jury on April 12, 2013, of one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and two counts of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing examining effective ways to permanently repeal the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula within the Medicare physician fee schedule and make improvements to the current system as physicians transition to alternative payment models...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: James Robert Jones, 42, of Woodlawn, Tennessee was indicted by a federal grand jury today in connection with a scheme to obtain fraudulent bank loans using the stolen identities of active duty and deployed U.S. Army officers, announced David Rivera, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: In April, based largely on advice from the New England Fishery Management Council, NOAA Fisheries announced its final management measures for the Northeast groundfish fishery, including much lower quotas for some key stocks. Those measures went into effect in May. NOAA Fisheries has been working for...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Defendant Possessed Thousands of Sexually Explicit Images of Children.
