News from November 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A property manager admitted today to conspiring to defraud financial institutions as part of a multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud scam that used phony documents and “straw buyers" to make illegal profits on over-developed condominiums in the Wildwood, N.J., U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Bella Vista, Ark., man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for the robbery of Alliant Bank in Blackwater, Mo.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of Nov. 11, 2013. The committee will convene eight hearings as part of its ongoing pursuit of policies that create jobs, modernize outdated regulations for the innovation era, and protect community and state based initiatives.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Larvon Langley, age 43, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 15 years in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Judge Hollander enhanced Langley’s sentence upon finding that he is an armed career criminal based on three previous drug trafficking convictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A pilot and his passenger, who belly landed their Beechcraft plane at the Yoakum County Airport on April 30, 2013, and subsequently admitted possessing with the intent to distribute 50 kilograms or more of marijuana, were sentenced this morning in federal court in Lubbock, Texas. Pilot...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - Former Peoria, Ill., real estate developer Shara Andrews, now of Mobile, Ala., was sentenced today in Springfield. Andrews, 40, formerly known as Shara Manning, was ordered to serve 24 months in prison and pay restitution in the amount of $598,536 to various real estate buyers and...
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, released an email from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to the White House , which asked for guidance on responding to a congressional request from Sen. Vitter and Rep. Darrell Issa ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Anaheim, California, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Pay Child Support.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that SANDEEP AGGARWAL, a former equity research analyst for a financial services firm located in San Francisco, California (“the Firm"), pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to charges arising from...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today subpoenaed Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy for documents and communications with White House officials related to the Agency’s response to congressional requests. Those documents include correspondence among Administrator McCarthy, former Administrator Lisa Jackson (under her alias ‘Richard Windsor’), and other high-ranking EPA officials.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Marlene L. Merchant, 55, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to a year and a day in prison on a federal theft charge stemming from her embezzlement of more than $335,000 from her former employer, United Medical Center, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Charles J. Willoughby, Inspector General for the District of Columbia.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Sexual Abuse was sentenced on November 6, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Lewis Jackson, 37, of Atlanta, Ga., who formerly did contract work as a medical doctor at the District of Columbia Jail, was sentenced today to a five-year prison term on a felony charge stemming from a sexual assault of an inmate, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: Joint Task Force Will Serve Western Portion Of Virginia; Provide Enforcement, Training And Victim Services.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today responded to the president’s comments on his repeated promise to Americans that if they like their health plan, they will be able to keep it “no matter what." During an interview late Thursday, President Obama was asked...
By State Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that on Wednesday, Nov. 13, he will convene a hearing to examine ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran. The hearing will coincide with the 100th day of Hassan Rouhani’s presidency in Iran.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: Natchez Trace Parkway Ranger Jane Farmer has received the 2013 National Park Service Freeman Tilden Award for interpretive excellence, the highest award a National Park Service Ranger can receive.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Maria Cavallaro, 45, of Springfield, Va., pleaded guilty yesterday to accepting bribes while employed as a DMV employee from 2007 to 2011. Jose Calderon and Noemi Barboza, both 42 and of Sterling, Va., also pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges stemming from the bribery scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a resident of the state of Washington who fishes out of Kodiak was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for four felony violations of the Lacey Act.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: Dr. Todd Braje will discuss what life was like in the Chumash village of Qshiwqshiwon Santa Rosa Island at the dawn of European contact during the November From Shore to Sea lecture.
