News published on Federal Newswire in June 2013

News from June 2013


Texas Man Indicted For Failure To Pay Child Support

News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Houston, Texas man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Pay Legal Child Support.


U.S. Foreign Service Officer Charged With Conspiracy To Defraud The United States And To Commit Bribery And Visa Fraud-Scheme Allegedly Yielded Millions Of Dollars In Bribes-

News Release: WASHINGTON A U.S. Foreign Service Officer, Michael Todd Sestak, 41, has been arrested and charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to commit bribery and visa fraud, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and U.S. Department of State Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) Director Gregory B. Starr announced today.


News Release: Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today answered questions regarding the solicitation of private funds to implement the president’s health care law.


Former Wayne County Assistant County Executive Pleads Guilty To Honest Services Fraud

News Release: Former Wayne County Assistant County Executive Michael Demetrus Grundy, of Detroit, Michigan, pleaded guilty today to Conspiracy to Commit Honest Services Wire Fraud in connection with his position as Executive Director of HealthChoice of Michigan, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.


News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Oglala, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly sexually abusing and threatening a child under the age of 12 between 2007 and 2010 at Allen, South Dakota.


News Release: The National Park Service Southeast Utah Group is now accepting applications for the 2014 Community Artist in the Parks (CAIP) Program.


News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - The single best and most common way to depict wars in the history of the United States has been through film. As part of a yearlong film festival, the Springfield Armory National Historic Site will feature the Emmy Award winning documentary television series Victory at Sea on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at 7:00 pm in the Museum theatre. Free Admission.


News Release: Memphis, TN - Twenty two individuals were charged today in a two-count federal indictment for their alleged roles in an illegal prescription drug distribution ring, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III and Resident Agent-in-Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Memphis office Brian K. Chambers.


News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) reminds visitors of the current campground firewood policy. To prevent and slow the spread of forest pests and diseases, campers may use only firewood acquired from vendors approved by the National Lakeshore. Campers are urged to refrain from bringing in firewood from any other sources.


Ridgefield Woman Pleads Guilty To Embezzling From Fairfield Housing Authority

News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ELIZABETH JO GUTIERREZ, 47, of Ridgefield, pleaded guilty today before United States Magistrate Judge Donna F. Martinez in Hartford to embezzling $30,000 from the Fairfield Housing Authority.


Lower Brule Man Charged With Controlled Substance And Firearm Violations

News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury.


Fort Yates Man Indicted for Sexual Abuse Charges

News Release: BISMARCK - First Assistant U.S. Attorney Lynn Jordheim announced that Donald Clark Luger, a/k/a Jody Luger, 62, Fort Yates, N.D., was indicted by a federal grand jury in May 2013 and is charged with aggravated sexual abuse of a child, abusive sexual contact and child abuse in Indian country.


Mountain Home Man Sentenced For Distributing Meth

News Release: BOISE - Raul Garcia-Rosales, 39, of Mountain Home, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Boise to 21 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Garcia-Rosales to serve three years of supervised release. He pleaded guilty to the charge on Nov. 27, 2012.


Chairman Menendez Expresses Concerns over Chinese Human Rights Violations to Obama before Meeting with President Xi Jinping

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote President Obama ahead of his June 7-8 meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, expressing deep concern over ongoing human rights violations taking place in China, oftentimes by officials acting outside China’s legal structures.


Former Atlanta Public Schools Chief Information Officer Indicted For Accepting Kickbacks

News Release: Accused of Awarding Computer Contract to Bidder in Exchange for Bribes.


Owner Of Gourmet Food Markets Pleads Guilty In White Plains Federal Court To Participating In Massive Tax Fraud Scheme That Concealed Over $50 Million In Income From The IRS

News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ADEM ARICI pled guilty today in White Plains federal court to participating in a tax fraud conspiracy in which more than $50 million in gross receipts from the fine foods supermarkets in which he had an ownership...


News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U. S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr., announced today that Eugene DeBerger, 60, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of copyright infringement, was sentenced to three years probation and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $41,460 to the Motion Picture Association by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.


2014 Artist in the Parks Program Applications Being Accepted (Lake Powell)

News Release: The National Park Service Southeast Utah Group is now accepting applications for the 2014 Community Artist in the Parks (CAIP) Program.


Windsor High School Student Assists Saint-Gaudens NHS

News Release: Steve Walasewicz, Chief of Resource Management and Maintenance at Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, recently approached Aaron Day of the Technology Education program at nearby Windsor High School, to see if the school might be interested in assisting the park with a woodworking project. The project...


Oversight Releases IG Report on IRS Conference Spending, Hearing Thursday

News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a hearing this Thursday at 9:30 a.m. to examine a new report, released today, from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) which focuses on excessive IRS conference spending and abuses of taxpayer dollars.