News from November 2013
By DOJ Gazette | Nov 12, 2013
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Nov. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Springfield today for cocaine possession and distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: Admits He was Personally Involved in $9.9 Million in Phony Transactions.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Missouri business owner pleaded guilty in federal court today to charges related to his scheme to embezzle more than $1.3 million from the Missouri Petroleum Storage Tank Insurance Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, John A. Bolduc, Chief, Port St. Lucie Police Department, Kenneth Mascara, Sheriff, St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TNMatthew Schweitzer, 26, of Memphis and Derek Wurth, 25, were each charged in separate criminal complaints with one count of bank robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Alicia A.G. Limtiaco, announced today that after undergoing a six-week curriculum taught by Gang Resistance Education And Training (G.R.E.A.T.) officers, over 71 fifth grade students at Harry S. Truman Elementary School will be receiving their certificates of completion on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013, at 12:30 P.M., in the school's cafeteria.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: Assault Occurred During Social Gathering With Children Present In The Home.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO ― The United States and the City of Joliet have settled housing discrimination litigation that will preserve affordable housing for low-income residents in the southwest suburb for at least the next 20 years, the United States Attorney’s Office and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: Five Banks Directed To Produce Records For Accounts At Zurcher Kantonalbank, The Bank Of N.T. Butterfield & Son Limited, And Their Affiliates.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that law enforcement officials with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Georgia State Patrol (GSP) Post 40, Albany Probation, and Albany Police Department served federal arrest warrants in Albany and Dawson, Georgia. In conjunction with the arrests, federal search warrants were also executed in Albany.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: In Sherman, TX, this morning, Lynetta Mae Washington, formerly of the Austin area and current Denton, TX, resident, was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison for her role in an identity theft and wire fraud scheme announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, FBI Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Steve McCullough in San Antonio.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: Settlement Resolves Federal Claims That CA, Inc.=s Software Maintenance Renewal Practices And Administration Of Software Blanket Purchase Agreements Violated False Claims Act.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that recipients in 45 states, the Western Pacific and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico will receive grants to make housing repairs and improve housing conditions for limited income rural residents. Acting Under Secretary for Rural Development Doug O'Brien announced the selections on Secretary Vilsack's behalf.
By State Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: Washington D.C. - Ranking Member Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democratic member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement on the devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit today affirmed the convictions of James L. Robertson on charges that he had murdered two homeless men to further his position in the white-supremacist hate group...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to two commercial robberies, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: At the Joint Base Lewis-McChord military installation near Tacoma, Wash., efforts to thwart a flowery intruder are benefiting significantly from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) backup. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) entomologists helped resource managers at the base evaluate different strategies...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) was introduced today as the newest permanent observer agency to the American Police Community (Ameripol).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Curtis Crawford, 40, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for illegally possessing a firearm. Due to his extensive criminal record of drug trafficking, Crawford qualified under the law as an Armed Career Criminal at sentencing which requires a mandatory minimum 15...
