News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Scott Rister, 43, of Shreveport, and William Clay Goodwin, 43, of Bossier City, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote, to serve six months in prison and two years of supervised release for mail fraud. The judge also ordered them to pay $8,150 in restitution to victims of the scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: Defendant Was A Fugitive For More Than A Decade.
By DOL Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), today held a hearing with Education Secretary Arne Duncan to examine the administration’s budget and policy proposals. During the hearing, members spoke with Secretary Duncan about the need to address the upcoming student loan interest rate cliff with a lasting solution that will better serve students and taxpayers.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: Glafira Rosales Allegedly Hid From The IRS At Least $12.5 Million In Proceeds From Sales Of Artwork Purported To Be Painted By Famous Abstract Expressionists.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Christian M. Araujo, a/k/a Christian Sanchez, 46, of Providence, has been ordered detained in federal custody on a charge of possession with the intent to distribute Ecstasy. Araujo was arrested by DEA agents on May 17, 2013, after he allegedly delivered between 2,400 and 3,000 Ecstasy pills with an estimated street value of approximately $30,000 to a person posing as a drug dealer.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: A former federal correctional officer from the Federal Correctional Institution at Greenville was sentenced to a total of six months in prison, a year of supervised release, and $22,108 in restitution to the IRS, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that two top senior executives of an employment staffing agency that operated in West Virginia both pleaded guilty to federal employment tax evasion charges. Daniel Hovis, 60, president of Career Search One, Inc., pleaded guilty today to...
By State Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The House Foreign Affairs Committee will meet tomorrow at 10 a.m. to consider the bipartisan Nuclear Iran Prevention Act (H.R. 850).
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced that JIMMY L. MORSE, 34, was arrested today at a residence in Locke, New York, and charged with the federal offense of failing to register as a sex offender.1.
By Interior Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: TALKEETNA, AK: A 59-year-old German mountaineer suffered a fatal cardiac arrest at the 13,500-foot level of Mt. McKinley on the evening of Sunday, May 19. Klaus Bielstein of Muenster, Germany was ascending the West Buttress route as a member of an 11-person Alpine Ascents International guided expedition.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: OAKLAND, Calif. - Kyle Robert James was sentenced yesterday to 8 years in prison for possessing and distributing child pornography, United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Criminal Division announced.
By State Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The following statement was prepared for delivery by U.S. Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, at Tuesday's committee hearing, "The Call for Economic Liberty in the Arab World.".
By Interior Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: Cumberland Gap National Historical Park is especially known for its exciting schedule of free programs that highlight the area's amazing wildlife, history and Appalachian music! On Saturday evenings during the summer, special weekly campfire programs are held at the park's outdoor amphitheater located at the Wilderness Road Campground. This year's summer campfire program schedule will kick off on May 25th at 8 p.m.with the folk/Americana band "Wild Blue Yonder!".
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - Whitney Rohacek, 26, of Crystal Beach, has entered a plea of guilty to one count of fraud in connection with a major disaster, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: Attorney Mitchell J. Stein, 53, of Hidden Hills, Calif., was convicted by a jury in the Southern District of Florida for his role in operating a five-year, multimillion-dollar market manipulation and fraud scheme, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DANIEL MONTEIRO, 34, of Wolcott, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before United States Magistrate Judge Donna F. Martinez in Hartford to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering stemming from a mortgage fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - A former Dubuque, Iowa, machinist was sentenced today to 37 years in prison for mailing a dozen threatening letters from the Chicago area and elsewhere, and mailing two pipe bombs from a Chicago suburb, between 2005 and early 2007 to investment firms and advisors as part of terror campaign...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael J. DePalma, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announced the filing of a 30-count indictment charging defendants Rigoberto Cabrera, 37, and Carlos Perez...
By Interior Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: Ozark National Scenic Riverways has been selected to receive a 2013 "Ticket to.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: Cape Girardeau, MO - Irvin R. Eddington, Jr. was sentenced Monday afternoon to 57 months in prison on bank fraud and embezzlement charges involving his issuance of fraudulent letters of credit while he was Vice President and Manager of the Ellington Branch of People’s Community State Bank (PCSB). In addition to the prison sentence, he was ordered to pay restitution of $1,195,696.
