News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: LUFKIN, Texas - A Nacogdoches, Texas couple has been sentenced for federal tax violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A McKees Rocks woman was sentenced to imprisonment today on a charge of violating the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: Deirdre Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WILSON MORILLO, also known as “Spaz," 21, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska -U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that two Fairbanks residents were charged with nine counts of wire fraud and three counts of theft from a local government receiving federal funds. The offenses charged occurred from December, 2009, through November, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - Christopher Stephens, 34, appeared in federal court today in Wichita Falls, Texas, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert K. Roach, on a criminal complaint related to several threats he allegedly made to blow up federal buildings in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Adam Arnold, 44, of Tallahasseewassentenced to serve 108 months in federal prison today for receiving and distributing child pornography. Arnold was working as an information technology technician at Buck Lake Elementary School when he was arrested on Sept. 13, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: BISMARCK, ND - At a joint news conference held this morning, Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem and U.S. Attorney Tim Purdon discussed the efforts of state and federal law enforcement agencies to combat telephone lottery scams, which have increased to epidemic levels in North Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced today that a Utica man has been sentenced for his role in an insurance fraud scheme and money laundering charge.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A retired colonel in the California Army National Guard who admitted running an investment scheme that caused two dozen victims to suffer a losses of nearly $3 million was sentenced today to 97 months in federal prison.
By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today unveiled draft legislation to repeal the current Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) system and replace it with a fair and stable system of physician payment in the Medicare program. The draft legislation is the latest step in the transparent...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: Former Chief of KPMG’s Audit Practice in Southwest Admits He Passed Confidential Information in Exchange for Cash Bribes.
By Commerce Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) today announced the issuance of a subpoena for “documents and communications referring or relating to the Benghazi talking points" from ten current and former State Department officials. The State Department has refused multiple requests to provide the communications and documents on a voluntary basis.
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: Glacier National Park and the Glacier National Park Conservancy announce the winners of the recent annual park pass artwork contest.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Luke Spencer, 48, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Gallup, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to an involuntary manslaughter charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Larry Michael Parrish, a/k/a Michael Parrish, age 49, of Walkersville, Maryland pleaded guilty today to wire fraud arising from an investment scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Marvin Junius Simmons, age 43, of Alexandria, Virginia, today to 10 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for three bank robberies.
By EPA Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today unveiled draft legislation to repeal the current Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) system and replace it with a fair and stable system of physician payment in the Medicare program. The draft legislation is the latest step in the transparent...
By US DOT Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, today revealed that correspondence between Southern California Edison (Edison) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries presents major new evidence of misrepresentation and safety lapses by Edison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Duane Curtis, age 37, of Randallstown, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and conspiracy to launder money.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2013
News Release: Charged With Fraud and False Statements.
