News from July 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Anthony Maurice Cottle, age 24, of Owings Mills, Maryland, late yesterday to 195 months in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for sexual exploitation of a minor to produce child pornography and to possession of child...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of filing a false tax return, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - John Brandon Rice, 25, most recently a resident of Abilene, Texas, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 37 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in April 2013 to one count of failing to register as a sex offender, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2013
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man was sentenced to 5½ years in federal prison for cheating about 35 victims of approximately $2.6 million in an investment fraud scheme. The defendant, ROBERT G. NELSON, offered and sold promissory notes, promising investors substantial returns, and instead used the money to pay earlier investors and for personal expenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas --- Trevor Jacob Fortner, 25, of Lubbock, Texas, appeared in federal court in Lubbock, Texas, this morning, before U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings, and pleaded guilty to a one-count indictment charging attempted transfer of obscene material to a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - - Six Colombian nationals were indicted today by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia for the kidnapping and murder of Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent James Terry Watson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Recently in federal court, a 31-year-old Fergus Falls man was indicted with stealing money from automated teller machines (“ATM") in numerous locations in west-central Minnesota and in Wahpeton, North Dakota, between March 2005 and March 2012. On July 16, 2013, Christopher James Diestler was charged with one count of bank larceny. Diestler was arrested on July 17, 2013, and made his initial appearance yesterday in federal court.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of July 22, 2013. Beginning on Monday and continuing Tuesday, the Subcommittee on Health will hold a markup to consider an updated bipartisan draft legislative proposal for Medicare...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2013
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. -Jayant Khare, 51, and Loveleen Khare, 56, both of Powhatan, Va., were each sentenced today to 24 months for conspiring to structure more than $10,000,000 in cash transactions for the purpose of preventing banking institutions from reporting those transactions to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROLAND PREJEAN, also known as “Gary Joseph Gravelle," 46, formerly of Thomaston and Morris, Conn., was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Warren W. Eginton in Bridgeport to 70 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for mailing numerous threatening letters.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 19, 2013
News Release: Workforce Protections Subcommittee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) and Senior Democratic Member Joe Courtney (D-CT) today introduced the Streamlining Claims Processing for Federal Contractor Employees Act (H.R. 2747), legislation that moves responsibility for wage claims adjustments for federally contracted workers from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to the Department of Labor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2013
News Release: Alleged Al Qaeda Leader In North Africa Charged In Connection With Terror Attack On Algerian Gas Processing Facility In Which More Than 35 Hostages Were Killed, Including Three Americans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2013
News Release: LEXINGTON, KY - A Lexington man, who made child pornography videos available for download over the internet, has been sentenced to 168 months in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2013
News Release: The park road and summit area above the 9740 foot elevation Haleakalā Visitor Center will be fully closed to vehicles, pedestrians, horses, and bicyclists through Thursday, July 25th. During construction, visitors will be directed to lower elevation overlooks, all of which have amazing views of the crater.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael J. DePalma, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announced that defendants Nathaniel Troy Maye, a/k/a Troy May, 44, and Tiwanna Tenise Thomason, 40, both of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Richard Mark Abbott, 62, of Chesterfield, Va., pled guilty today to a federal charge of possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury found Daniel M. Metz (54, Oviedo) guilty yesterday of filing false claims and obstructing the IRS. Metz faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison for the false claims charge and a maximum...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of July 22, 2013. Beginning on Monday and continuing Tuesday, the Subcommittee on Health will hold a markup to consider an updated bipartisan draft legislative proposal for Medicare...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2013
News Release: HAMMOND, Ind. - A suspended physician who owned weight loss clinics in northwest Indiana and south suburban Chicago was sentenced to two years in federal prison for illegally dispensing millions of pills containing amphetamine-based controlled substances to patients, and he and his wife were also sentenced...
