News from November 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: State Police Cpl. Marshall Bailey and Tpr. Eric Workman honored posthumously for major drug investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: Michael J.W. Bryant, 41, of St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced to 30 months in prison on November 8, 2013, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Bryant pled guilty on Aug. 1, 2013, to Unlawful Possession with the Intent to Distribute Cocaine. Bryant had been indicted on June 18, 2013, by a federal grand jury sitting in East St. Louis.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: Autumn conditions persisted throughout October as temperatures remained warm and rains intensified. These conditions resulted from the Pineapple Express, a jet stream pattern characterized by strong and persistent flow of atmospheric moisture from as far south as Hawaii. This formed when a persistent...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Immanuel Lee Williams (28) and Cara Lee Williams (28), both of Tampa, have been arrested and charged in a criminal complaint with conspiracy to obstruct, delay, or affect commerce by robbery and conspiracy to commit bank robbery. If convicted on all charges, each faces a maximum penalty of twenty years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Four members of a violent guerilla organization were indicted today on conspiracy and hostage-taking charges stemming from the kidnapping of more than 60 people in Colombia in 2000, including three United States nationals. As a result of the ensuing captivity, three Colombian citizens who were taken hostage by the kidnappers died.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man who collected thousands of images and hundreds of videos of child pornography was taken into federal custody after he was sentenced yesterday to 13 years and 4 months in federal prison for transporting and possessing child pornography using his home computers. The defendant, JONATHAN SAINZ, 28, had pleaded guilty in June of this year. He was charged in October 2011 after federal agents searched his residence earlier that year.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, Nov. 7, 2013 - Statement by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Release of Rural America at a Glance, 2013 Edition by USDA's Economic Research Service: "Today's annual report by USDA's Economic Research Service - Rural America at a Glance, 2013 Edition - highlights the critical need for ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: Ari B. Goldenberg, 46, of Milton, N.H., was charged today with trafficking in and making a false record for illegally selling a black rhinoceros head mount to an undercover U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) special agent.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: The owner of a Detroit-area home health care agency was sentenced today to serve 65 months in prison for her leading role in a $2.2 million Medicare fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: Jeffrey Paper of Potomac, Md., pleaded guilty yesterday to willfully filing a false tax return in the U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Md., the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: A Northern California real estate investor has agreed to plead guilty for his role in conspiracies to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: Detroit-area resident Javed Rehman was sentenced to serve 60 months in prison today for his role in a $13.8 million Medicare fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: Judge Finds that Instant Tax Service Franchisor Defrauded Customers, Obstructed the IRS and Violated Court Orders on Lending Practices A federal court has entered a permanent injunction ordering ITS Financial LLC, the parent company of the Instant Tax Service franchise, to cease operating, the Justice ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: Tommy Edward Clack pleaded guilty in federal court in Greensboro, N.C., to one count of willfully filing a false federal income tax return and one count of knowingly making a false statement to a federally-insured bank in order to obtain a mortgage loan, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: Iraqi Consultants and Construction Bureau (ICCB) has paid the U.S. $2.7 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by bribing a U.S. government official to obtain U.S. government contracts in Iraq, the Department of Justice announced today. ICCB is a privately owned construction ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: A federal court has permanently barred Gary J. Stern from promoting tax fraud schemes and from preparing related tax returns, the Justice Department announced today. The civil injunction order, to which Stern consented without admitting the allegations against him, was entered by Judge Robert Gettleman ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: AT&T has agreed to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act in connection with a program administered by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Department of Justice announced today. The settlement resolves a civil lawsuit in which the government alleged that AT&T knowingly ...
By Fed Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday issued a final policy statement describing the processes it will use to develop scenarios for future capital planning and stress testing exercises.
By Fed Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the termination of the enforcement actions listed below: FNB United Corp. (now known as CommunityOne Bancorp, Charlotte, North Carolina) Written Agreement dated Oct. 21, 2010 Terminated November 5, 2013 Highland Bancshares, Inc., St. Michael, Minnesota ...
