News from May 2013
By Homeland Newswire | May 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Ranking Member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) released the following reactions to the announcement that the U.S. Postal Service lost $1.9 billion in the second quarter of fiscal year 2013...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Paula Reid, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Secret Service (USSS), Michael J. De Palma, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and Hugo J. Barrera, Special Agent in Charge...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that brothers Joey White Eagle, age 32, from Fort Totten, North Dakota, and Ansel White Eagle, Jr., age 33, from Bullhead, South Dakota were convicted of Assault by Striking, Beating and Wounding and were sentenced on May 8, 2013 by U.S. Magistrate Judge William D. Gerdes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Marco Uribe, age 25, of Sioux City, Iowa appeared before U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann on May 9, 2013 and pled guilty to the Superseding Indictment that charged him with Kidnapping and Brandishing a Firearm During, in Relation to, or in Furthermore of a Crime of Violence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska-B U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a man from Colorado was sentenced in federal court in Fairbanks for his role in a Fairbanks drug conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2013
News Release: A Medina chiropractor was sentenced to 30 months in prison for overbilling Medicare and insurance companies more than $1.8 million for medical equipment and treatment that were not medically necessary, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court yesterday JAMAAL McKENZIE, 33, of Canada was sentenced for targeting the elderly in a fraud scam in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371 and Title 18, United States Code, Section 1341 to 78 months of imprisonment followed by three years supervised release. The Court also ordered restitution of $840,705.00 to be paid.
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2013
News Release: SILT, Colo. - Volunteers are needed May 18 for the annual Transfer Trail “Open the Trail Day" north of Glenwood Springs.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2013
News Release: Hammond, Indiana-The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2013
News Release: Two Additional Tyrannosaurus Bataars, Hadrosaur, And Egg Nest Among Mongolian Dinosaur Fossils Secured.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2013
News Release: David G. Driskill, 65, of Carrollton, Illinois, was charged in federal district court with Enticement of a Minor, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today. The alleged violation took place between on or about May 1, 2013, and May 10, 2013, in Jersey County. After a detention hearing held today, the Court ordered that Driskill be held without bond pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2013
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On May 9, 2013, Randall Todd Walker, a 50 year old resident of Des Moines, Iowa, was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment for cutting and removing 32 black walnut trees from property under the control of the Army Corps of Engineers and the Department of Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife...
By Commerce Newswire | May 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today called on health care physicians and other providers from across the country to bring ideas to the table on how to improve Medicare’s physician payment system. In a sharply-worded letter to health care providers, the senators called the current Medicare payment system “broken" and said it was time to repeal the flawed formula and end the annual “doc fix" ritual.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - An alleged general of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) gang pleaded guilty today to racketeering charges related to his membership in the ABT’s criminal enterprise, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2013
News Release: South Bend, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - One of the leaders of a drug-trafficking organization operating on Cape Cod was sentenced today to serve 25 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2013
News Release: Michael White conspired with couple to set fire to Boone rental duplex for insurance payout.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago police officer was convicted today of obtaining two extortion payments totaling $3,200 from a cooperating tow truck driver, in exchange for steering vehicle tows from accident scenes, during an undercover investigation. The defendant, DEAVALIN PAGE, who was assigned to the South Chicago...
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2013
News Release: Farmington, PA: James Sampey, tavern keeper at Mount Washington is dead - for the past 170 years. The Friends of Fort Necessity and park staff will gather in the old tavern to present and talk about mid-nineteenth century funeral practices including Mr. Sampey's. Visitors will be surprised to know taverns...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2013
News Release: A man and woman from Lorain County were charged with human trafficking crimes after forcing a 16-year-old girl and 19-year-old woman to have sex for money, said Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland office, and Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
