News from March 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Jeffrey Volk, age 42, of Fort Yates, North Dakota was charged on Feb. 14, 2013 for Lacey Act Violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal judge who said the prison term should serve as a message to other would-be defendants today sentenced a North Hollywood man to 30 months in federal prison for aiming a laser beam at a plane and a police helicopter.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Milton man was convicted today of bank and wire fraud charges in connection with a property flipping scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: Plotted To Attack Center When Maximum Number Of High School Age Recruits And Their Families Were Inside.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: Paige R. Davis, from Sparta, Illinois, pled guilty in federal district court today to being a felon in possession of a firearm, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Davis is scheduled for sentencing on July 12, 2013. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, 3 years supervised release, $100 special assessment fee, and restitution to the victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: WICHITA FALLS, Texas - Three defendants, who pleaded guilty to their respective roles in a major methamphetamine distribution conspiracy that operated in Wichita Falls, were sentenced on Friday, in federal court in Wichita Falls, by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former New Jersey-based defense contractor employee - who was convicted by a federal jury for exporting sensitive U.S. military technology to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), stealing trade secrets and lying to federal agents - was sentenced today to 70 months in prison, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) introduced legislation late Friday to bolster the nation’s job-creating trade agenda by strengthening the trade facilitation and enforcement efforts of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - Mechell D. Toles, 44, of Collierville, TN, pleaded guilty this morning to a one count Information charging her with health care fraud, announced United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, Edward L. Stanton III. Toles, a licensed professional counselor who formerly operated offices in Memphis and Collierville, will be sentenced on July 1, 2013 before Chief United States District Judge Jon Phipps McCalla.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON DC - Today the Obama administration will designate five new national monuments. These sites include: the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument in Maryland; Río Grande del Norte National Monument in New Mexico; First State National Monument in Delaware; Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument in Ohio; and San Juan Islands National Monument in Washington.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2013
News Release: “Improvements in the accuracy and timeliness of tsunami warnings and the way we communicate the threat will help the public stay safe," said Dr. Louis Uccellini, director of NOAA's National Weather Service. “But this information can save lives and property only if individuals and communities know when and how to take proper action. Collective and individual preparedness is key to building a Weather-Ready Nation."
By DOL Newswire | Mar 23, 2013
News Release: U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) today released the following statement on the third anniversary of the president’s health care law...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - Four Chicago men were sentenced to lengthy federal prison terms after being convicted in three separate cases of various firearms and narcotics charges, federal law enforcement officials announced today. Each case demonstrates the constant efforts of federal agencies - in these three instances...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) is planning to invest more than $20 million to strengthen the firearm background check system by improving states’ abilities to share information with the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). OJP’s Bureau of Justice Assistance ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced that, jointly with the Meridian Public School District in Meridian, Miss., and private plaintiffs, it has filed a landmark consent decree to prevent and address racial discrimination in student discipline in district schools. If approved by the court, the proposed consent ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: A superseding indictment against four Police of Puerto Rico (POPR) officers was announced today by Roy L. Austin Jr., Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division; Rosa Emilia Rodriguez-Velez, U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico; and Carlos Cases, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI San Juan Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: Dennis Frisbie Jr., 33, former deputy with the Muskogee County, Okla., Sheriff’s Office, who was assigned as a detention officer at the Muskogee County Jail (MCJ), pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma to one count of making material false statements to the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: A registered nurse who fabricated nursing visit forms in connection with a $24 million home health care fraud conspiracy in Detroit pleaded guilty today for her role in the scheme, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney for ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: An Orlando resident was sentenced today to serve life plus five years in prison for forcing multiple minor and adult victims to engage in prostitution, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida Robert E. O’Neill.
By Fed Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: Federal and state bank supervisors today announced an increase in the number of required loan data fields in the Interagency Loan Data Request (ILDR). The federal agencies making today's announcement were the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. They were joined by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS).
