News from November 2013
By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: In collaboration with The Outsider Gallery of Cutler Bay, Biscayne National Park will host an exhibit of outsider art inspired by the park from December 6, 2013 through Feb. 23, 2014. In the Park, Outta the Box will feature photography, paintings and fiber art. A "Meet the Artists" Reception - featuring...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Nov. 20, 2013, following a two day trial in U.S. District Court, a jury convicted Joshua Roberts, 28, of Knoxville, Tenn., of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute over 28 grams of cocaine base, also known as crack.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: Sea surface temperatures across the equatorial Pacific have been near average since spring 2012, and forecasters expect that to continue through the winter. This means that neither El Niño nor La Niña is expected to influence the climate during the upcoming winter.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr. announced that THERON GOLSTON, aka “Thema," 23, a resident of New Orleans, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Stanwood R. Duval, Jr. to serve the remainder of his life in prison for violating federal RICO, drug conspiracy, firearms conspiracy, and murder...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man convicted of Felon in Possession of Firearm was sentenced on Nov. 20, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Jeffrey Charles Zander, age 58, a former tribal planner, general counsel and economic development and trust resources director for the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, will serve 68 months in federal prison. Zander was convicted of mail and wire fraud, money laundering, and willful failure to file tax returns following a week-long trial in U.S. District Court in March.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Parmelee, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, Opposing, and Impeding a Federal officer was sentenced on Nov. 20, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that Quinten M. Allen, 24, of Fairview Heights, pled guilty in the federal district court in East St. Louis on Nov. 19, 2013, to the charge of being a previously convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: In Eagle Pass this morning, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents along with Texas Department of Public Safety investigators arrested 64-year-old Saul Lombrana, owner and operator of Fiesta Contractors based in Eagle Pass, in connection with an alleged bribery, kickback and bid-rigging scheme announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 22 indictments charging 24 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Patrick S. Baker, 50, of Caldwell, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to possessing obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: Four people were indicted on charges of wire fraud, mail fraud and conspiracy to launder money for their roles in a scheme to defraud a Cleveland Heights charter school out of more than $400,000, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: James L. Santelle, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Nov. 19, 2013, a federal grand jury returned an indictment against John M. Hunter (age: 35) of Antigo, Wisconsin, charging him with a single count of Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances in...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the former court administrator for the Jackson County Circuit Court pleaded guilty in federal court today to a fraud scheme in which the government contends she embezzled nearly $140,000 from the circuit court.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: Six Additional Defendants Have Pled Guilty In Connection With The Scheme.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: Today President Obama signed into law the Streamlining Claims Processing for Federal Contractor Employees Act (H.R. 2747). Introduced by Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) and Ranking Member Joe Courtney (D-CT), the bill moves responsibility for wage claims adjustments for federally-contracted workers from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to the Department of Labor.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Jeremy Gunhammer, age 20, of Rosebud, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on Nov. 19, 2013, and pled guilty to Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: TTRENTON, N.J. - The former chief financial officer of the Manhattan-based brokerage firm Needham & Co. today admitted stealing $1 million from his former employer through an elaborate false invoicing scheme, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: - Formerly convicted of first-degree murder, promoting contraband and trafficking in a controlled substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: A grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Fred M. Mallard, 69, with one count of Theft of Government Property, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
