News from July 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - A former supervisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago pleaded guilty today to a federal misdemeanor for stealing computer files containing confidential information relating to the bank’s responsibility to assess and monitor its credit risk exposure. The defendant, BRIAN MCCARTHY, admitted attempting to download on to his personal thumb drive approximately 300 computer files, and actually downloading 71 computer files, belong to the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced today that Upstate Laboratories, Inc., 6034 Corporate Drive, East Syracuse, New York pled guilty before Judge Glenn T. Suddaby to one count of felony mail fraud related to the falsification of over 3,300 laboratory results from 2008 through 2010.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Ranking Member Sandy Levin (D-MI), Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Charles Rangel (D-NY), and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) introduced legislation to renew the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) through September 2015. The current GSP program is set to expire July 31, 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) made the following statement on Senate immigration bill being in clear violation of the U.S. Constitution.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: Dear Mr. Chairman: I have received a copy of a letter you sent today to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) releasing selective portions of transcripts of interviews of IRS officials conducted by Committee staff. Rather than describing the whole truth, your letter appears yet again to create a skewed...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 27-year-old Mexican national was indicted for entering the United States illegally after previously being deported as an aggravated felon. Hector Rios-Guzman was specifically charged with one count of illegal re-entry after deportation.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing examining how health information technology (IT) can help improve the quality of health care in America...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - New information produced in the Congressional investigation shows that the IRS used key search terms to identify organizations that support the Democratic Party for scrutiny - yet the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration is claiming that releasing the search term would violate...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal indictment charging Adorean Boleancu with twenty-seven counts of bank fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, and aggravated identity theft was unsealed this morning in federal court, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag. The indictment alleges that Boleancu executed a fraud scheme by forging more than $1.8 million in checks written on accounts of an elderly, widowed client for his personal benefit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rockford, Michigan, man has pled guilty and been sentenced for a Lacey Act Violation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Joseph M. Yesvetz, age 57, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to 18 months’ imprisonment, two years of supervised release, and $150,000 restitution in connection with making a false claim for benefits under the Department of Labor’s Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program (EEOICP).
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) today released the following statement on the House’s passage of two bills that will delay Obamacare’s individual mandate for American individuals and families for one year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on July 16, 2013, an indictment was unsealed charging Angie Ray Shera, age 38 of Steinauer, with conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing methamphetamine between January of 2011 and February of 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: (MANHATTAN, N.Y.) - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division, Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, Tom F. O’Donnell, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Health and...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: Tucson, Ariz. (July 17, 2013) --- Effective Friday, July 19, the Bureau of Land Management Gila District, all districts of theCoronado National Forest, Saguaro National Park, Coronado National Memorial, Chiricahua National Monument, Fort Bowie National Historic Site, Tumacácori National Historical Park...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Chris Paclik, age 21, of Brookings, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge John E. Simko on July 15, 2013, and pled guilty to Count IV of the Information that charged him with Unlawful Taking of Migratory Birds and Lacey Act Violations.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: Tucson, Ariz. (July 17, 2013) --- Effective Friday, July 19, the Bureau of Land Management Gila District, all districts of theCoronado National Forest, Saguaro National Park, Coronado National Memorial, Chiricahua National Monument, Fort Bowie National Historic Site, Tumacácori National Historical Park...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Danielle Barton, 31, of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Leslie G. Foschio to money laundering conspiracy. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a $500,000 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: Glafira Rosales Charged With Knowingly Selling Fake Artworks Purportedly By Renowned Artists In $30 Million Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a 31-year-old man pleaded guilty to possessing a stolen handgun. Nathan Anderson, of Bloomington, pleaded guilty to one count of possession of a stolen firearm. Anderson, who was charged yesterday via an Information, entered his plea before United States District Court Judge Susan Richard Nelson.
