News from July 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - The owner of an Olathe drywall contracting company has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for failing to pay more than $370,000 in federal income taxes, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Annette Crawley, also known as Kenya Sade Bryant, age 37 and formerly of Liberty, Missouri, was sentenced today in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 4 years in prison by United States District Judge Lyle E. Strom, for health care fraud and false claims. After completion of her prison sentence, Ms. Crawley will serve a 3 year term of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) today issued a subpoena to Department of Veteran Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki for communications related to the Department’s extravagant July and August 2011 human resources conferences held in Orlando, Fla.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Miami Field Division, announced the filing of one count indictment charging four defendants for their participation in an international money laundering conspiracy in which they laundered millions of dollars for transnational drug trafficking organizations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: MIAMI - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Wilfredo A. Ferrer, Preet Bharara, and Loretta E. Lynch, and the United States Attorneys for the Southern District of (SDFL), Eastern District of New (EDNY), and Southern District of New (SDNY), respectively...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on July 3, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen, WENDY SILVA, a 41-year-old resident of Missoula, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: SEATTLE - Today,a Whatcom County man who ran a drug distribution network was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. Todd Hamilton, 36, of Bellingham ran the area’s most widespread and prolific drug trafficking organization using violence and threats of violence to impose his will. At sentencing U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour said the community should be grateful Hamilton is off the street.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - Kevin Derricott was sentenced yesterday to 20 months in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud lenders out of millions of dollars, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: The following climbing routes in Arches National Park are again open to rock climbing.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., M.D. (R-LA) released the following statements in response to the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) 30-day review of the practice of discriminating against applicants for tax-exempt status based on their personal beliefs. IRS Principal Deputy Commissioner Werfel will be before the Committee Thursday, June 27, at 10:00 am to discuss the report.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: Prosecution is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods Initiative.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - To address the public pension debt crisis and better secure retirement savings for millions of Americans, Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today unveiled the Secure Annuities for Employee (SAFE) Retirement Act of 2013, legislation to strengthen and reform much of the nation’s public and private pension benefit system.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Springfield for dealing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: Albany, New York - Annie George, a/k/a Annie Kolath, a/k/a Sajimol George, age 41, of Rexford, New York, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Court Judge Gary L. Sharpe to five years of probation for harboring an illegal alien, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - A new letter from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) provides the following facts showing “progressive" groups did not face the same targeting by the IRS that tea party groups did.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - RANDALL K. SUTTON pled guilty today before United States District Judge Jean C. Hamilton to participating in a fraudulent scheme involving the sale of prearranged funeral contracts and misappropriation of insurance premiums. Sutton faces up to 84 months in prison for his role.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: Albany, New York -HERMIS ANTONIO ADAMES, age 35, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, pled guilty today in United States District Court in Albany before Chief United States District Court Judge Gary L. Sharpe to one count of re-entry by a previously removed alien, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kenneth J. Croke, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the ATF Boston Field Division, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned two indictments charging 16 individuals with federal narcotics offenses related to the distribution of crack cocaine and heroin in Connecticut.
