News from November 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - William Faison, 23, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 25 years of incarceration for the slaying of 19-year-old Jeffrey Covington during an attempted robbery in Southeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Friday, Nov. 1, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. DAYTON - Brian Rohrback, 29, of Xenia, Ohio was sentenced to 240 months in prison and will be under court supervision for the rest of his life for coercing teenage...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) issued the following statement on the deadly shooting at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - George Nelson Smith, age 52, of Potomac, Maryland pleaded guilty today to filing a false tax return and failing to file a tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Vernon Harrison, of Montgomery, Ala., was sentenced to serve 111 months in federal prison and three years’ supervised release, along with an order to pay $82,791 restitution, for his role in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2013
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Aubrey Brent Sturdivant, 28, of Waynesboro, Mississippi, was sentenced in U.S. District Court on November 7, 2013, to 41 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for his role in conspiring to defraud the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis, FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen and Mississippi State Auditor Stacey Pickering. Sturdivant was also ordered to pay a $10,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Mohammad Qureshi, 59, of Houston and South Dakota, and Fouzia Qureshi, 59, of Houston, have been ordered to prison following their convictions of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The pair pleaded guilty Aug. 9, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2013
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Bergen County, N.J., man claiming to run New Jersey-based hedge funds using a secret computer program to invest in foreign currency was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for his role in defrauding victims out of more than $3.5 million, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2013
News Release: South Bend, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2013
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Seth Ryan Bivens, 29, of Jennings, La., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Patricia Minaldi to receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Mythili Raman, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, announced that VLADIMIR KATS pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to money laundering and operating an unlicensed...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 1, 2013
News Release: NEW YORK - John Piltzecker has been selected as the next superintendent of Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island, according to Joshua Laird, commissioner of the National Parks of New York Harbor. Piltzecker will replace David Luchsinger who will retire Jan. 3.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a brother and sister from Fairbanks, Alaska, were sentenced in federal court in Fairbanks for their role in a Fairbanks drug and money laundering conspirary.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2013
News Release: On Oct. 31, 2013, Michael Scott, Jr., a forty-one year old East St. Louis, Illinois, man pled guilty in federal district court, in East St. Louis, to distribution of cocaine, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Scott is scheduled...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2013
News Release: Funds Will Hire School Resource Officers and assist with the start-up of the Troy Peer Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2013
News Release: GIRAY BIYIKLIOGLU, aka “Johnny Bryan,", age 30, a Turkish national and resident of New Orleans, was convicted yesterday in federal court of 40 counts of wire fraud, aggravated identity thefts, tax fraud and money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 1, 2013
News Release: In support of President Obama’s commitment to a clean energy future, the Energy Department today began the process to select collegiate teams to compete in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2015. Colleges, universities, and other post-secondary educational institutions are welcome to submit...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-A bill to improve access to emergency epinephrine in schools-unanimously approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee this week -has passed both chambers of Congress and will now go to the President’s desk to be signed into law. HELP Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA), a sponsor of the measure, applauded the news in a statement today...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA), Jack Reed (D-RI), Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Patty Murray (D-WA), and Pat Roberts (R-KS) today released the following statement applauding the news that the 500th drug has been labeled with pediatric information as a result of provisions included in the...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Western District of Louisiana. Friday, Nov. 1, 2013. ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that 10 defendants pleaded guilty Thursday before U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell, for their roles in a cocaine distribution network...
