News from July 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2013
News Release: Doctor Made More Than Half a Million Dollars Illegally.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2013
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2013
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On July 17, 2013, Alan Bernard Baugh, age 32, formerly from Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 75 months imprisonment, after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute at least 500 grams of cocaine and 100 kilograms of marijuana...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Alfredo Barrientos, 30, of Rio Grande City, and Mexican National Esteban Trevino, 39, have been ordered to prison following their convictions in relation to a crack cocaine trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. The two men pleaded guilty on March 4, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a former U.S. Postal Service employee was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for her role in a scheme to intercept cocaine-laden packages mailed from Puerto Rico to New Jersey.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A federal grand jury in New Jersey has indicted the developer of three Trenton affordable housing projects for allegedly diverted money intended for the developments, announced New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - DR. MEL LUCAS, PATTERSON MEDICAL CLINIC, INC. and nurse practitioner, ROBYN LEVY, were indicted on multiple health care fraud related charges for their alleged false billing for services never rendered and false statements in patients’ medical records.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ammie Brothers, 29, of Columbus, Ga., a sergeant in the U.S. Army, pleaded guilty today to unlawfully obtaining personal information from the U.S. Army’s Army Knowledge Online computer system.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today discussed the Department of Energy’s (DOE) current loan programs and steps that could help improve them at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on the issue.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, two individuals were sentenced for their roles in a large, multi-state, identity theft ring. United States District Court Judge Paul A. Magnuson sentenced Joel Delano Powell III, age 20, of Minneapolis, to 42 months in prison; and Trey Jeremiah...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Independence, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for a scheme to receive Social Security disability payments while running a mortgage brokerage firm that he founded in Blue Springs, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 24 indictments charging 32 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Four former bank employees are charged with embezzling from a bank in Grant County, Kan., and staging a robbery to cover the thefts, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Kevin C. Farrell, 30, of Lewiston, N.Y., pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess and distribute over 50 kilograms of marijuana before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a fine of $1,000,000, or both. The defendant will also forfeit $100,000 in cash or property.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement after IRS Inspector General Russell George testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that he only became aware this month that IRS training materials included the term progressive...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Thursday, July 18, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. COLUMBUS - Mickell E. Close, 32, of Quincy, Ohio was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 300 months in prison for recording nude images of three young children...
By State Newswire | Jul 18, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY-16), the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, together with all 20 of his Democratic colleagues on the Committee, today introduced the Embassy Security and Enhancement Act of 2013, a bill to strengthen security for our diplomats serving abroad.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA/LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that three illegal aliens were sentenced this week in U.S. District Court for violating deportation orders multiple times.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -In a Senate Finance Committee hearing today, Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) backed the nominations of Joseph Nega to serve on the U.S. Tax Court, Judge Michael Thornton to serve a second term on the U.S. Tax Court, and Scott Kieff to be a member of the U.S. International Trade Commission. Senator Baucus said the nominees will fill critical roles protecting taxpayers and fighting for U.S. businesses and workers.
