News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A former employee of The Vacation Ownership Group LLC admitted today to conspiring to defraud owners of timeshare properties, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: Receives 30 Month Sentence. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Jeffrey Steven Telsey, 56, of Delray Beach, Florida, was sentenced for conspiring to traffic in counterfeit Gillette razorblades, announced U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. U.S. District Judge Janet T. Neff sentenced the defendant to 30 months custody...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - William B. McNichols, 48, who handled accounting and other financial matters for a Washington, D.C. law firm, was sentenced today to an 18-month prison term for embezzling more than $730,000, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: BALTIMORE - David Russo, 62, of Hagerstown, Maryland pleaded guilty today to health care fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid by billing for prescriptions that Russo knew were not written for a legitimate medical purpose.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) reaffirmed his commitment to finding a permanent fix to prevent new subsidized Stafford Loan interest rates from doubling on July 1st.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: The Big Meadows Fire remains at an estimated 604 acres. With the continued reinforcement of containment lines by crews working the Big Meadows Fire, the fire is considered to be 75% contained.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: The Battle of Monocacy, known as "the battle that saved Washington," took place on July 9, 1864 as part of the third and final Confederate Campaign in Maryland. After the battle, a Baltimore newspaper wrote, "The country does not yet know how much it owes the gallant men who fought that battle." On July...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney Kenyen Brown announces that Robert Kidd, a 36 year old, Prichard, Alabama resident, was sentenced today to 12 months incarceration for possessing crack cocaine with the intent to distribute it followed by 60 months incarceration for the possession of a handgun in furtherance of the drug crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Donald J. Cazayoux, Jr. announced today that a corporation and its two owners have been charged in connection with a wide ranging and ongoing federal and state investigation into corruption and fraud surrounding federal environmental laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: - Money allegedly spent on personal expenses including Hummer vehicle and motorcycle.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) today announced the issuance of a subpoena for documents related to the risky Obamacare health CO-OP loan program after repeated requests for the documents were ignored.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced that Robert V. Julius, (age: 22) of Keshena, located on the Menominee Indian Reservation, in the State of Wisconsin, was sentenced on June 4, 2013, in United States District Court, Green Bay Division, to eight months of imprisonment, followed by three years on supervised release. The sentence was the result of a guilty plea by Julius on March 15, 2013, to a federal indictment charging him with burglary of a dwelling.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota woman convicted of false statement was sentenced on June 11, 2013 by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former part-owner and underwriter for New York-based litigation funding company The Law Funder LLC, admitted today in Newark federal court to participating in a secret kickback scheme that defrauded his former business partners of approximately $869,492, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Ricardo Cantu Jr., 32, of Hidalgo, Texas, will be serving a 2½-year prison term for making false statements and representations on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) form 4473, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Cantu pleaded guilty June 23, 2011, for making false statements with respect to information required to be kept in the records of federally licensed firearms dealers.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: ECHO BAY COURTESY DOCK MOVED TO LOW WATER RAMP.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: An active weekend in Grand Teton National Park kept rangers and emergency responders exceptionally busy. Park staff handled two search and rescue missions, eight medical calls, including one fatality, and multiple reports of property damage, plus one serious personal injury, in the aftermath of a significant wind event in the Colter Bay area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: MADISON, Wis. - Jack Riley, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration and John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Pedro Flores Cruz, 53, Huntington Park, Calif., was sentenced today by U.S. District...
