News from June 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, joined a bipartisan group of members of Congress in backing legislation to fully repeal the “death tax." Hatch, a longtime backer of full repeal of this tax on estates, says it is an unfair tax on farmers,...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 49-year-old Scandia man was indicted for stealing more than $92,000 in survivor benefits from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA"). Dean Boraas was specifically charged with one count of theft of government funds.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: Early Father's Day morning, Sunday, June 16, a firefighter walking with his crew from field spike camp to the fireline collapsed due to sudden cardiac arrest during the Big Meadows Fire. Prompt action by the firefighter's crew in administering CPR, and the rapid response of fire-line Paramedics that...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: “Through lies and subversion, each of these three defendants served as highly paid enablers of an epic fraud against the City of New York. And with their pleas today and multi-million dollar forfeitures, they will be stripped of their ill-gotten gains and potentially their liberty. Thanks to the efforts...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: BOSTON, MA - A Holden man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Worcester for committing tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - KIMBERLY DAWN LOGSDON and WILLIAM MICHAEL LOGSDON, both of Chickasha, Oklahoma, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with the embezzlement of over $150,000 from the Silver Buffalo Casino and failure to file federal tax returns, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced that Lucille G. Brim, 42, of East St. Louis, Illinois, was sentenced today in federal district court to 57 months in prison for Possession With Intent to Distribute Cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health Ranking Member Representative Jim McDermott (D-WA) responds to the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) reports on the status of Affordable Care Act (ACA) implementation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 47-year-old Minneapolis felon was indicted for possessing four firearms. Carl Craig Larson was specifically charged with one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce the filing of a criminal complaint charging defendant George Brown, 50, of Hollywood, FL, with accepting...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: Contact: Public Information Officer. Number: (313) 234-4310. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr., announced that five men have been convicted in connection what is believed to be the largest seizure of crystal (or “ice") in the state of Michigan. In August of 2012, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: On June 19, 2013, Brian L. Edelen, a 24-year old Alton, Illinois, man pled guilty in federal district court, in East St. Louis, to unlawful possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich sentenced Michelle Guy (40) to 48 months in federal prison yesterday for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud. The court also ordered Michelle Guy to forfeit over 400 high-end purses, shoes, sunglasses, electronics, and other clothing...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: Luckily, signing a piece of paper today is rarely a matter of life and death. For the men who signed the Declaration of Independence, and the soldiers in George Washington's army, that's exactly what it was. On Thursday, July 4th, come to Fort Stanwix National Monument and follow in the footsteps of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: Revenue share fraud cost companies millions in losses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on June 19, 2013, before Senior U.S. District Judge Jack D. Shanstrom, ARMANDO HERNANDEZ-VACA, a 25-year-old resident of Billings, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: POCATELLO - Timothy Scott Murphy, 25, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 39 months in prison, consecutive to the state sentence he is currently serving, followed by three years of supervised release for possession of an unregistered firearm, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Murphy to forfeit the firearm. Murphy pleaded guilty to the charge on May 22, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: A grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Roland Jerome Lamarr, 59, with bank robbery, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released two new reports today confirming the Obama Administration is ill-equipped for the implementation of the federally facilitated health insurance and the Small Business Health Option Program (SHOP) exchanges created under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The reports state the programs’ implementation delays and missed deadlines show potential for “implementation challenges going forward."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on June 19, 2013, before Senior U.S. District Judge Jack D. Shanstrom, KERRY LYNN VAN HAELE, a 29-year-old resident of Billings, was sentenced to a term of.
