News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: WICHITA FALLS, Texas - Stephen Paul Riley, 41, of Olney, Texas, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor, in federal court in Wichita Falls, Texas, to 120 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $3600 in restitution, following his guilty plea in January 2013 to an Indictment...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: Stephen McLaughlin, 46, of Pelham, New Hampshire, former owner of EquipLinq, Co., a Spring Hill construction equipment company, was sentenced on May 13, 2013, by U.S. District Court Judge Todd J. Campbell to serve 36 months in prison, following his conviction on February 8, 2013, of two counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, announced David Rivera, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By USDA Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that Jason Brodsky, 22, of New Haven, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 48 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - - United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. sentenced four defendants today to lengthy prison terms for conspiring to distribute (Ecstasy) and for possession with intent to distribute MDMA, Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that Marcos Montes-Jurado was sentenced on Thursday, May 16, 2013 to 63 months in prison for Illegal Re-entry by an Aggravated Felon.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO -JOSEPH VACCA, Deputy Commissioner of the St. Louis Parks Division, and THOMAS STRITZEL, Chief of the St. Louis Park Rangers, were indicted by a federal grand jury late Wednesday on fraud charges alleging that they defrauded the City of St. Louis of approximately one-half million dollars by submitting false and sham invoices purportedly for materials and services supplied to the Parks Division. They are expected to turn themselves in to authorities this week.
By Commerce Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement insisting that Committee Chairman Darrell Issa honor his commitment to hold a public hearing with Ambassador Thomas Pickering and Admiral Mike Mullen, who led the Accountability Review Board that examined security in Benghazi...
By USDA Newswire | May 16, 2013
Release: The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) recently launched an online system that modernizes the way the agency informs the U.S. agricultural industry regarding changes in international food and agriculture regulations that could affect U.S. exports.
By Homeland Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 “Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will travel to San Francisco and Los Angeles, Calif. tomorrow, May 17, where she will meet with technology and business leaders to discuss the need for commonsense immigration reform, which is critical to our nation’s economic health and prosperity.”
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department today announced a settlement with the architects and civil engineers involved in the design and construction of multifamily housing complexes located in Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee. The department’s lawsuit alleges that nine multifamily housing complexes with more than ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: An Oregon man has been charged with allegedly orchestrating a $50 million securities fraud scheme, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Laura E. Duffy of the Southern District of California.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: For more than 40 years, the federal Witness Security (WitSec) Program has enabled the government to bring to justice the most dangerous criminals by providing critical protection for witnesses fearing for their safety. Over the last two decades, it has been a key tool in thwarting planned attacks and ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: Mosii Mays Blackwell, of Detroit, Mich., pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of Michigan to obstructing the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and bank fraud, the Justice Department and the IRS announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: Glenn Powell Jr. pleaded guilty today in the Middle District of Alabama to his role in a large scale stolen identity refund fraud, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. On Apr. 17, 2013, a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Ala., indicted Powell on conspiracy and theft ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: Fazliddin Kurbanov, 30, was arrested Thursday morning in Boise, Idaho, as part of a federal terrorism investigation. Federal terrorism charges were filed Thursday afternoon in Boise and Salt Lake City, Utah. Kurbanov, an Uzbekistan national, legally present in the United States, was living in Boise at the time of his arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: A former stock broker was sentenced to prison today for his role in an extensive pump-and-dump stock manipulation scheme, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division , U.S. Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. of the Northern District of Oklahoma, Special Agent in Charge James E. Finch of the FBI’s Oklahoma City Division and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Chief Richard Weber.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: Drs. David Leon Fredrick and Patricia Lynn Hough, of Englewood, Fla., were indicted by a federal grand jury in Fort Myers, Fla., for conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by concealing millions of dollars in assets and income in offshore bank accounts at UBS and other foreign banks, ...
By Labor Gazette | May 16, 2013
News Release: Mine owner initially refused to comply with judge's order ARLINGTON, Va. – The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced that a miner fired from his job at a California rare earth minerals operation when he spoke out about unsafe working conditions has been temporarily ...
By Labor Gazette | May 16, 2013
News Release: HYDRO, Okla. — Rigid Oil Field Services LLC has agreed to pay $51,839 in overtime back wages to 28 current and former employees following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division, which found violations of the overtime and record-keeping provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The company misclassified its employees as independent contractors.
