News from July 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - A former vice president of a company that was based in west suburban Downers Grove pleaded guilty today to engaging in a fraudulent invoicing scheme in which he obtained more than 100 company checks totaling more than $3.9 million and stole the money for himself. The defendant, STEVEN M. BRAZILE, admitted the fraud at his arraignment after being charged earlier this month in U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced the recent completion of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) prosecution targeting Cocaine Trafficking in Jacksonville, North Carolina and the surrounding areas. The results of this investigation, code named Operation BLEW...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: A program about staying safe on the river will be held at the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area's Bandy Creek Visitor Center on Saturday, Aug. 3, at 10:00 a.m. (EDT). This program will be held on the back porch of the Bandy Creek Visitor Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On July 30, 2013, Joseph Patrick Connor, a 40 year-old resident of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge John Jarvey to four months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in transporting stolen truck repair equipment from Omaha, Nebraska, to Council Bluffs, Iowa. Judge Jarvey also ordered Connor to pay restitution in the amount of $30,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
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By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: Program Announcement #1. Every Day is Family Day at the Douglas Center. Enjoy family-friendly activities every day in August between 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore’s Paul Douglas Center. In addition to lots of indoor activities, get outside and let the kids enjoy the new Nature...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - Earlier today, Yuri Khandrius, 50, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced to eight years in prison for his role in a $77 million Medicare fraud scheme. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon of the Eastern District of New York sentenced Khandrius to three years...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a 31-year-old Minneapolis man was sentenced for the April 3, 2012, armed robbery of the West 7th Pharmacy in St. Paul. United States District Judge Susan Richard Nelson ordered Michael Brooks Bynum to serve 220 months in federal prison on one count...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This afternoon, the House Energy and Commerce Committee will begin consideration of H.R. 2810, the Medicare Patient Access and Quality Improvement Act of 2013. The bipartisan legislation is the product of more than two years of transparent work to transform the Medicare physician payment...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today called on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to clarify the role and responsibility of the agency in addressing recent allegations that owners of U.S. warehouses, overseen by a ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg and Sybil Smith, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation announced that Michael and Laurie Russell, of Hickman, Nebraska, were sentenced in Lincoln, Nebraska, by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard, for failing to pay employment taxes in 2006.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Gregory Steven Guillot, 35, of New Iberia, La., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard T. Haik, to 135 months in prison for attempting to entice a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity. Guillot is also required to complete 20 years of supervised release and register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), today announced conspiracy charges against SANDEEP AGGARWAL, a former equity research analyst...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 51-year-old Minneapolis man was sentenced for robbing the TCF Bank on West Lake Street in Minneapolis. United States District Court Judge Patrick J. Schiltz sentenced Phillip Leo Nietz to 151 months on one count of bank robbery, as well as three other bank...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 290,000 metric tons of soybeans to unknown destinations during the 2013/2014 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Timothy Ignacio Duboise, 28, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Chichilta, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon to ten years in federal prison followed by six years of supervised release for his aggravated child sexual abuse conviction. Duboise will be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: Defendant Admits He Exchanged Child Pornography with a Private Internet Group for More Than Ten Years.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) outlined the adverse impact of ObamaCare on job creation in America and said the President’s signature domestic policy achievement should be permanently delayed for all Americans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Mark Coates, 28, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to a charge of second-degree murder while armed for the December 2011 slaying of a man at a park in Northeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - On the latest leg of the president’s “jobs" tour, he criticized Republicans’ efforts to build the Keystone XL pipeline, charging, “Putting all your eggs in the basket of an oil pipeline that may only create about 50 permanent jobs… isn’t a jobs plan." The House has now voted seven times to expedite construction of the pipeline in the face of the administration’s continued delay of the critical jobs project.
