News from July 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: Without any jobs agenda or effort to reach a budget agreement to replace the sequester, House Republicans are spending all of today on a set of politically-motivated message bills. The irony, of course, is that House Republicans continue to accuse the IRS of political motivation in their screening of tax exemption applications despite all of the evidence collected so far showing that there was no political motivation.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Friday, August 2nd at 9:00 a.m., the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security and the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environment Regulation will hold a joint hearing entitled “Missing Weapons at the National Park Service: Mismanagement and Lack of Accountability."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: MACON, Ga. - Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia announced that Bacari McCarthren, 37, of Orlando, Florida, was sentenced on July 31, 2013 by Senior U.S. District Judge Hugh Lawson in Valdosta, Georgia, to 240 months imprisonment, to be followed by (3) years supervised release, after pleading guilty to Possession with Intent to Distribute Cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mobridge, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Warren Love, 36, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted by a jury of possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute, maintaining a drug involved premises, possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking crimes...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: VENTURA, California - Federal and local authorities this morning arrested eight individuals linked to a mortgage fraud scheme that filed loan applications on behalf of lower-income, primarily Spanish-speaking individuals, generating substantial loan fees and commissions and causing lending institutions to suffer millions of dollars in losses when homes went into foreclosure.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A Pittsburgh man has been sentenced in federal court to 24 months in prison followed by three years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal bomb threat hoax laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) has issued a prospectus soliciting proposals for the award of two (2) concession contracts for River Transportation and Haul-Out Services within Canyonlands National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Deryl Loar, Sheriff, Indian River County Sheriff’s Office, announce the arrest of five Vero Beach residents: Edward...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Shanna Nix, 24, of Rochester, N.Y., pleaded guilty to providing contraband to an inmate at a federal correctional institution before U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - The Justice Department, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the FBI announced today that James Timothy Turner, also known as Tim Turner, was sentenced to serve 18 years in federal prison for conspiracy to defraud the United States, attempting to pay taxes with fictitious financial instruments, attempting to obstruct and impede the IRS, failing to file a 2009 federal income tax return and falsely testifying under oath in a bankruptcy proceeding.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Ranking Member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) held a markup to consider legislation and nominations pending before the Committee. The Committee approved two nominations and six pieces of legislation, which now go to the full Senate for consideration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A professional hunter from Tennessee violated his federal probation and must spend a total of 30 days in Bureau of Prisons custody, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury in Rochester has returned a single-count indictment charging Marques Cayne, 30, of Elmira, N.Y., with being an armed career criminal in possession of firearms and ammunition. The charge carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison, a maximum of life, a fine of $250,000.00, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today thatTerry Lee Doty Jr., 34, of Bossier City, La., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks Jr., to three years of probation and was ordered to pay a $50,000 fine for operating an illegal internet sports gambling site.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Utah. Wednesday, July 31, 2013. Case Filed as a Part of Utah Identity Theft Task Force Initiative. SALT LAKE CITY - Two individuals have been charged in a federal complaint with using credit cards stolen from a Riverton woman’s wallet. The wallet...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: Human Trafficking Rescue Project. Operation Guardian Angel. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Lenexa, Kan., man was charged in federal court today with attempting to pay for illicit sex with a 12-year-old child after being...
By State Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House of Representatives passed by an overwhelming majority the bipartisan “Nuclear Iran Prevention Act, " introduced by U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), Ranking Member of the Committee. The legislation, H.R. 850, increases pressure on the Iranian regime amid its continued attempt to acquire a nuclear weapons capability.
By State Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the below remarks, as prepared for delivery on the House Floor, for debate on the bipartisan Royce/Engel Nuclear Iran Prevention Act, H.R. 850.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: A grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging an Uhrichsville woman with making a bomb threat, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
