News from July 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Jeffrey Hensley, 42, of Lubbock, Texas, appeared before U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings today and pleaded guilty to three counts of bank robbery and credit union robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas. He faces a statutory maximum sentence...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that LLOYD BARRIGER, former president and principal shareholder of the Gaffken & Barriger Fund LLC (the “Fund"), which was a hedge fund based in Monticello, New York, pled guilty today in White Plains federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - Michael Pinkney, 43, of Cordova, TN, and Alan R. Price, 50, of Olive Branch, MS, were each sentenced this week to 33 months in prison and ordered to pay $1,283,728.53 in restitution for their roles in a foreclosed real estate “flipping" scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A Pittsburgh resident has pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of robbery of a U.S. Post Office, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on July 25, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen, THOMAS RODERICK YALLUP, JR., a 30-year-old resident of Box Elder and an enrolled member of the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation, was sentenced to a term of.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) issued the following statement on next week’s 40th attempt by the House Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on July 26, 2013, Cameron J. Gooden, 18, Belcourt, N.D., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to a charge of assaulting and resisting a federal officer.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: September is a great time to come enjoy traditional storytelling at Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: National Park ServiceNews Release. - July 26, 2013. Merrith Baughman 402-223-3514. Opening of Lincoln Exhibit Delayed One Week. Due to unforeseen logistical circumstances Homestead National Monument of America will have to delay the opening of the exhibit Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Mexican Nationals Gabriel Miramontes, 36, Carlos Garza-Salazar, 31, Jose Gonzalez-Lopez, 27, and Librado Zuniga-Polanco, 30, have been ordered to prison following their convictions in relation to a marijuana trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. The men pleaded guilty on Feb. 7, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Francisco Flores-Enriquez, 26, a Mexican national illegally present in the United States, entered a guilty plea this afternoon in Las Cruces federal court to conspiracy to possess more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana with intent to distribute. The guilty plea was announced by U.S. Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Box Elder, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly burglarizing a building at Ellsworth Air Force Base on March 2, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-A federal indictment unsealed recently charges two Red Lake women in connection to kidnapping. The indictment, which was filed on July 23, 2013, specifically charges Melanie Rose Benais, age 27, and Ronalda Myra Smith, age 33, with one count of kidnapping. On July 24, 2013, the indictment was unsealed following the defendants’ initial appearance in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On July 25, 2013, Mark Timothy Hudson, age 19, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment by Chief United States District Judge James E. Gritzner for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Judge Gritzner also sentenced Alvarado to three years of supervised release.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, released the following statement today on the 23rd anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Harkin was the Senate sponsor of the ADA and delivered the first-ever...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the arrest of Donald E. Gallagher, Jr. (51, St. Petersburg), on charges of distribution and possession of child pornography. If convicted, Gallagher faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 5 years and a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison on the distribution charge, and a maximum of 10 years in federal prison on the possession charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a White River, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA- On July 25, 2013, Andrew Aaron Rahn, age 20, formerly from Long Grove, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge James E. Gritzner to 120 months of imprisonment on the charge of distribution of heroin resulting in death, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Leaders on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Committee on Ways and Means sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew yesterday seeking more information on the Administration’s decision to extend Obamacare’s premium tax credits to individuals enrolled in federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON-Robert Glenn Baker, 57, of Houston, has been sentenced for conspiracy to violate the anti-kickback statute, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Baker pleaded guilty to the charge on Aug. 15, 2012.
