News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - An Ohio man who illegally sold several firearms to a convicted felon in 2012 pleaded guilty on May 28 in Huntington to federal charges, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Jeffrey Allen Jones, 50, of Chesapeake, Ohio, pleaded guilty to knowingly selling firearms to a convicted...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of New York. Tuesday, May 28, 2013.
By USDA Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: A team of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and collaborating scientists is closing in on genes in rice that regulate the uptake and storage of important minerals, a pursuit that could bolster the nutritional value of this cereal grain crop as a staple food of roughly half the world's population.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced today that Bradley S. Leader, 42, of Auburn, New York, pled guilty to filing a false personal income tax return in tax year 2007.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Missoula, Montana man convicted of Felon in Possession of a Firearm was sentenced on May 17, 2013 by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: Today, Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released a discussion draft designed to address some of the outstanding patent issues, including litigation abuse. Following the release of this discussion draft, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Joshua Douglas Taylor, 23, of Shalimar, Florida, appeared in federal court today to face charges associated with his receipt and possession of child pornography. Taylor has been charged by a federal grand jury in a three-count indictment with receipt, transportation, and possession...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that LAWRENCE MULQUEEN pled guilty to an Indictment charging him with making threats against federal officials in messages that he posted on the online social networking site “Facebook." MULQUEEN threatened...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Today, THEODORE MICHAEL ZACHRITZ, of Nichols Hills, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for willfully failing to pay over to the Internal Revenue Service federal taxes that he withheld from his employees’ wages, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. In addition, Zachritz was ordered to pay $461,363.84 in restitution to the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Daniel J. Witek, 50 of Buffalo, N.Y., was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with mail fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, today announced that Richard Ammar Chichakli, an associate of the convicted international arms dealer Viktor Bout, was extradited from Australia on charges that he allegedly...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: Diane M. Hathaway, a former Michigan Supreme Court Justice, was sentenced today to one year and one day in federal prison, after having pleaded guilty in January to committing bank fraud in connection with a property in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a 35-year-old felon from Maplewood was sentenced for possessing a loaded.32-caliber revolver. United States District Court Judge Donovan W. Frank sentenced Derek Lee Preston to 180 months imprisonment on one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Preston was indicted on April 12, 2011, and pleaded guilty on February 4, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: Hammond Also Admits Hacks Of Various Company, Federal, State, And Local Government Websites.
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA: Armory Day 2013 at Springfield Armory NHS will commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War.After a year hiatus, blank firing demonstrations are on the schedule again. Mark the date of Saturday, June 22 from 10:00 am to 4:30 pm. Visitors of all ages will be dazzled by the blank...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: Defendant Admitted Shooting at Vehicle with Person Inside.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: A former Highland Park Police officer pleaded guilty today to conspiring with three other police officers to protect shipments of cocaine and to take bribes in return for not appearing in court as a witness, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Porcupine, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly stealing over $1,000 from the Pine Ridge Pizza Hut between November 1 and 30, 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell sentenced Sebastian Stewart Oyegun, II (33) today to 30 months in federal prison for theft of government property. Oyegun was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $10,205,304.05. The court also forfeited a 2011 Infiniti QX56, a 2011 Dodge...
By Commerce Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: Once uncommunicative industrial robots and machine tools are now beginning to talk turkey, thanks to a prototype application developed by a team of partner companies led by the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM). This application was successfully demonstrated and tested by manufacturing researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
