News from July 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of New York. Thursday, July 25, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Amefika Gray, age 39, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to structuring bank deposits totaling over $2 million over a two year period to avoid bank reporting requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Alex Ernesto Calderon Velasquez, 27, of Reston, Va., pleaded guilty today to two counts of production of child pornography and one count of failing to appear in court as required.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to her role in a $1.3 million mail fraud conspiracy related to distributing at least 188 kilograms of synthetic marijuana, commonly referred to as K2.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Glacier National Park Rangers recovered the body of Matthew Needham, a 21-year old male from Simi Valley, California, Thursday afternoon, July 25, near Grinnell Point in the northeast area of the park. The individual was climbing the mountain with two other climbers when he fell at least 60 feet to his death.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 25, 2013 - Today, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held a legislative hearing on, the Protecting States’ Rights to Promote American Energy Security Act. This bipartisan legislation, introduced by Representative Bill Flores (TX-17), would...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: Defendant Was a Choir Teacher at Cross Timbers Middle School in Grapevine, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Thursday, July 25, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. CINCINNATI - Federal and state health care fraud investigators arrested Abubakar Atiq Durrani, 44, Mason, Ohio today based on a federal complaint alleging that...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man has been indicted on federal charges of sex trafficking of a child, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, 29-year-old Abdullahi Omar Fidse, a citizen of Somalia, was sentenced to eight years in federal prison after admitting to making false statements under penalty of perjury during a terrorism investigation announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, Federal Bureau of Investigation...
By State Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the statement below concerning yesterday’s train accident in Spain:
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Miles Lamar Gammage, a recently disbarred attorney, has been sentenced for defrauding more than 50 of his seriously injured worker’s compensation clients out of settlement funds they were owed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Pascual Giovanny Navarro-Gonzalez, 29, of Buffalo, NY., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara, to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute heroin and cocaine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, a $5,000,000 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: JOSE TRANSITO LOPEZ, age 34, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced today in federal court by U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo to 82 months imprisonment, announced U.S. Attorney Dana Boente. In addition to the term of imprisonment, Judge Milazzo ordered that LOPEZ be placed on three years of supervised...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., M.D. (R-LA) wrote to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Principal Deputy Commissioner Daniel Werfel regarding reports that the IRS accidently released thousands of Social Security numbers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: MONTERIO WIGGINS, age 22, of Gretna, Louisiana was sentenced today before U.S. District Judge Lance M. Africk after pleading guilty to Violations of the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization Act, the Federal Gun Control and Controlled Substances Acts.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) released the following statement following the President's speech today in Jacksonville, Florida...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Hiawatha, Iowa and a resident of Kersey, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Senate HELP Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA), and Senate HELP Committee Ranking Member Lamar Alexander (R-TN) introduced a bipartisan bill to re-authorize the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), legislation first passed...
