News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-A federal indictment recently unsealed charges a 52-year-old Red Lake man with distributing and possessing images and videos containing child pornography. The indictment, which was filed on May 7, 2013, charges James Patrick Needham with one count of distribution of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. The indictment was unsealed prior to Needham’s initial appearance in federal court earlier today in Duluth.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Paul Bauer, 55, of Dallas, TX, was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for a fraud conspiracy involving a scheme to steal approximately $4 million from a Venezuelan fishing company. Bauer pleaded guilty on March 8, 2012 to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Court Judge Petrese Tucker ordered Bauer to pay restitution in the amount of $936,081, and ordered three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, today announced the filing of a settlement agreement with the City of New York regarding allegations that the Fire Department (FDNY) violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by failing to reasonably accommodate a disabled firefighter.
By Commerce Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following statement on the release of hospital pricing data by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a resident of Anchorage has been sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for his conviction of felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A citizen of Mexico has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of re-entry into the United States after deportation, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOL Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, spoke on the floor of the Senate about Republican obstructionism that has prevented a scheduled Committee vote this afternoon on the nomination of Thomas Perez to be Secretary of Labor.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: A resident of Beverly Hills, Michigan was sentenced today to 137 years after having been found guilty of arson and other charges related to wire fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade. McQuade was joined in the announcement by Special Agent in Charge...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal firearms and narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Recently in federal court in St. Paul, a 19-year-old Red Lake man was indicted for assaulting another with a machete while in Redby, a community on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. On May 6, 2013, Dale Clinton White, Jr., was specifically charged with one count of assault resulting in serious bodily harm.
By USDA Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 115,000 metric tons of soybeans to China during the 2013/2014 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Mercer County, N.J., man will have his initial court appearance on child pornography charges in New Jersey after having been arrested by local authorities in Panama and returned to the United States in early April, where he was arrested by special agents from the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wyoming State Office has posted its proposed list of parcels for the quarterly competitive oil and gas lease sale scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, at the Holiday Inn in Cheyenne, Wyo. Doors open at 7 a.m. with the auction beginning at 8 a.m.
By Commerce Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: Below is Ranking Member Cummings’s opening statement, as prepared for delivery, for today’s Full Committee hearing on Benghazi.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: A Miami resident who was an administrator of a home health care company and was the employee of another home health care company pleaded guilty today for her participation in a $74 million home health Medicare fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer of the Southern District of Florida;...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced Michael L. Thomas, 54, and his wife, Carolyn S. Thomas, 56, both of Fayetteville, North Carolina, for corruptly obstructing and impeding the due administration of the Internal...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Maximiliano Cordova, 19, of Albuquerque, N.M., was arrested by the FBI on May 6, 2013, on a criminal complaint alleging that Cordova distributed, received and possessed visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Cordova made his initial appearance in federal court yesterday and waived his right to a detention hearing. He will remain in federal custody pending trial, which has not yet been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On May 7, 2013, Chequila Motley pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to file false claims and one count of aggravated identity theft for her role in an identity theft tax refund scheme, announced George L. Beck, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Dereon Tayronne Kelley, 22, of Bryan, has been ordered to prison following his convictions on all counts for communicating a bomb threat to an academic institution, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. The verdict was returned Wednesday, April 10, 2013, after two days of trial and approximately one hour of deliberation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: Jackson, TN - Eleven individuals were named today in a six-count indictment as part of an illegal gambling ring operating at five locations in Jackson, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
