News from July 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - TIMOTHY DEAN EIKE, 19, from Woodward, Oklahoma, pled guilty to being in unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition after being involuntarily committed to a mental institution, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced a settlement agreement with the XL Center, its management companies, the City of Hartford and the State of Connecticut to resolve allegations that the XL Center failed to comply with the Americans with Disabilities...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a resident of Anchorage has been sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for her conviction of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute and felon in possession of firearms.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office and Christopher B. Dennis, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: A pair from Northeast Ohio were named in an 84-count superseding indictment, charged with a variety of schemes that resulted in a loss of more than $43,000, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MT. - The Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center at Glacier National Park is hosting a free brown-bag lecture on Thursday, July 11 from 12- 1pm at the Community Building in West Glacier. The public is invited to join Render and Helen Davis, freelance writers and photographers, who will tell the story of the Civilian Conservation Corps in America's parks, including Glacier National Park.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited Hunts Point Tropicals Inc., of Bronx, N.Y., for failure to pay for produce.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Paula A. Reid, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Secret Service (USSS), and Michael J. DePalma, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announced that defendant Fednol Pierre...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Cora Carper, age 32, of Churchton, Maryland, today to 37 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for embezzling from a labor union’s political action committee. Judge Russell also entered an order that Carper pay $495,286 in restitution, the amount remaining from what she embezzled. Carper’s family previously paid $7,300.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Burlington man pleaded guilty today to shoplifting more than $600,000 worth of merchandise from retail stores in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, then selling it on Ebay’s Half.com website.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Toni R. Walker, 54, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced by the Honorable Richard G. Kopf, United States District Judge, to 36 months imprisonment for her conviction for bank fraud. Following Ms. Walker’s release from incarceration, she will be placed on five years of supervised release. She was also ordered to pay $765,236.82 in restitution.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Tuesday, July 2, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. COLUMBUS, OHIO - James E. Johnston, a/k/a “Monk," 50, of Columbus was sentenced to 72 months in prison, five years of supervised release, a $1,000 fine, and ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: FortWayne,IN C TheUnited States Attorney's Office announced that a Grand Jury sitting in Fort Wayne, Indiana, returnedthe following Indictment on May 22, 2013.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - Two brothers who owned and managed the El Toro Market in Hemet have been charged by a federal grand jury in a scheme to obstruct a United States Department of Labor investigation that determined they failed to pay overtime to more than a dozen employees.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: A Florida man was indicted on four counts for a scheme in which he defrauded Fifth Third Bank out of approximately $4 million, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska: There was little change in the size of most of the fires burning in Denali National Park and Preserve over the past 24 hours, with the exception of two burning in the Toklat Basin north of the Denali Park Road. Yesterday afternoon chinook winds gusting from the Alaska Range pushed...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Kevin Anthony Walker, age 43, of Germantown, Maryland, today to 20 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine. Judge Titus also ordered Walker to pay a fine of $7,000, and to forfeit $5,800 in cash and jewelry seized from his residence on December 9, 2011, as well as two vehicles.

By Commerce Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today issued the following statement after the Obama Administration said it will delay the penalties for employers who do not provide health-insurance coverage to workers under the President’s health law for one year...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: James Gordon Fields Caused More Than $14 Million In Fraudulent Loans To Be Issued.