News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Dodge City man has pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting attempted murder in connection with a federal racketeering case, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: A new test is available to help sheep producers identify animals at high risk for ovine progressive pneumonia (OPP), thanks to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: A Bond County man convicted of possession of child pornography was sentenced to ten years in federal prison on June 17, 2013, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Daniel Allen Neer, age 38, formerly of Mulberry Grove, Illinois, was ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: Proposed Settlement Agreement Would Ensure Pension Benefits Are Appropriately Calculated For All Municipal Workers Who Have Performed Active Military Service Since Sept. 11, 2001.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that a 31-year-old Mexican national who resided in the Reading area at the time of his arrest in November 2011, was sentenced today to serve six years in prison for participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy by Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Phillip LaBatte, age 24, of Eagle Butte, South Dakota appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on June 13, 2013 and pled guilty to Count III of the Indictment that charged him with Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: MEDIA ADVISORY. June 27 Ceremony Marks Presidio of San Francisco's 237th Anniversary, Launches Interactive AnzaHistoricTrail.org. WHAT: Anza Expedition descendants and costumed youth on horseback deliver roll-call of San Francisco’s first colonist families. Follow the route they traveled on a new interactive...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) released this statement applauding the Supreme Court ruling in Arizona et al. v. Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona that invalidated Arizona’s law requiring applicants to submit documentary proof of citizenship beyond what is required ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced that Raissa A. Askenette, (age: 33) of Neopit, located on the Menominee Indian Reservation, in the State of Wisconsin, was sentenced on May 20, 2013 in Green Bay by United States District Court Chief Judge William Gresbach, to three years on probation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Zachary Poorman, age 25, of Mission, South Dakota appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on June 13, 2013 and pled guilty to Aggravated Sexual Abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A Center, Texas, couple now living in Elgin, Texas, has been indicted and charged with health care fraud violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: Defendant Prostituted 17-Year-Old Girls in Metro Atlanta and Montgomery, Ala.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly engaging in and attempting to engage in a sexual act with a female child between January 2007 and December 2008 near Kyle, South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Cape Cod man was sentenced today for filing a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man who sold crack cocaine to a police informant pleaded guilty on June 17 to federal drug charges, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Calvin Lee Boswell, also known as “Boo" and “Big Boy," 23, pleaded guilty to seven counts of distribution of crack cocaine. On three...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former employee of an agency that administered disaster relief funds was among three former Joplin, Mo., residents who were indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a wire fraud conspiracy following the May 22, 2011 tornado.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, N.J., man admitted today that he agreed to give a $10,000 corrupt payment to personnel at the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office to dismiss criminal charges that were pending against him, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: Richard A. Bailey, 57, of Las Vegas, Nevada has been convicted of securities fraud involving the willful distribution of unregistered shares in Gateway Distributors, Ltd., United States Attorney André Birotte Jr. announced today. Following a three-day trial in federal district court in Los Angeles, on June 13, 2013 a jury returned a unanimous verdict finding Bailey had violated the securities laws in April and May 2004.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Emmanuel Lee Warrior, a/k/a Mani Warrior, age 23, of Pine Ridge, South Dakota appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Veronica L. Duffy on June 13, 2013 and pled guilty to Arson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Former Country Club Hills, Ill., police chief Regina R. Evans, 50, today pled guilty to charges of fraud related to a $1.25 million state grant awarded in 2009 to We Are Our Brother’s Keeper, a not-for-profit program that Evans owned with her husband, Ronald W. Evans, Jr.
