News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Promoted Student Loans To Those With Financial Problems; Nearly $1 Million In Bank Fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Dear Inspector General George: Since sending the attached letter to you on Tuesday, June 24, 2013, I am deeply troubled by public statements made by your office. At first your office issued the following statement: “TIGTA’s audit focused on the criteria the IRS used to select cases for expanded review...
By State Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC- Congressman Eliot Engel (D-NY-16) had legislation approved today by a bipartisan voice vote by the House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Trade. Rep. Engel is the top Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee. The “Export Promotion Reform Act," authored by Engel, will create jobs for American workers by increasing export sales of U.S. goods and services in world markets. It requires coordination of the 20 separate federal programs to help U.S. firms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - An inmate at the McKean Federal Correctional Institution in Bradford, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty and was sentenced in federal court to two months incarceration on his conviction for possession of contraband in prison, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Michael Smith, 38, a former corrections officer of the Alabama Department of Corrections and resident of Lee County, was convicted by a federal jury in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama of two civil rights violations and five obstruction of justice-related violations in connection with the beating death of former inmate Rocrast Mack, United States Attorney George L. Beck, Jr., announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Jonathan Brownlee, 28, of Philadelphia, pleaded guilty today to four counts stemming from a tax fraud scheme that sought to bilk the government of over $600,000. Brownlee admitted that he conspired with others to file false tax claims by obtaining and using the personal identifying information...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Robert A. Steffens, 60, of Dallas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Terry R. Means to 60 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in November 2012 to one count of possession of child pornography. Judge Means ordered that Steffens surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on July 22, 2013. Today’s announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Deirdre Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that OBED FRANCO, also known as “Obie," 23, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Middle District of North Carolina. Wednesday, June 26, 2013. Obtained sensitive military hardware by pretending to be a Special Forces Sergeant. GREENSBORO, N.C. - John Joseph Savage, age 50, has been sentenced to eight months in prison followed by three years...
By State Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called on Russia to cease sheltering international fugitive Edward Snowden and release him immediately into the custody of the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - Due to extreme fire danger throughout Grand Canyon National Park, park officials will be implementing fire restrictions for all areas within the park except the Colorado River corridor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - James D. Orr, 75, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Thomas N. Verhage, 68, of Kentwood, entered guilty pleas to a felony charge of misbranding drugs related to their conduct while employed as staff pharmacists at Kentwood Pharmacy. At plea hearings held before U.S. Magistrate Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Contact: Public Information Officer. Number: (313) 234-4310. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - James D. Orr, 75, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Thomas N. Verhage, 68, of Kentwood, entered guilty pleas to a felony charge of misbranding drugs related to their conduct while employed as staff pharmacists...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Tarentum, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of bank fraud United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Utah case is a part of Project Synergy, a nationwide initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - Today, Carlos Bolet Álvarez, a former contractor with the Municipality of Barceloneta pled guilty to a one count Information charging misprision of a felony before the Magistrate Judge Silvia Carreño-Coll, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on June 26, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy, JUSTIN CARLTON WHITMAN, a 31-year-old resident of Billings, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Defendant Filed False Tax Returns Claiming Over $1.2 Million in Bogus Refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Yesterday the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and its law enforcement partners announced enforcement operations in 35 states targeting the upper echelon of dangerous designer synthetic drug trafficking organizations that have operated without regard for the law or public safety.
By State Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This morning at 10 a.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing on reforming the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), an agency that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton referred to as “defunct" and was harshly critiqued...
