News from November 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: FBI Says Luis de la Garza was the “Mesh Mask Bandit".
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: Defendant Robin Slater ran one of region’s largest-ever marijuana distribution conspiracies.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: SACRAMENTO, California - El procurador general de los EE.UU., Eric Holder, el procurador general auxiliar Tony West y el procurador federal de los Estados Unidos Benjamin B. Wagner anunciaron que los Estados Unidos han llegado a un acuerdo de liquidación civil con JPMorgan Chase relacionado con la venta que hicieron JPMorgan y otros dos bancos que adquirió JPMorgan en el 2008, Bear Stearns y Washington Mutual, de valores respaldados por hipotecas residenciales.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Mission Viejo-based corporation that operates nursing homes across the western United States has agreed to pay $48 million to resolve allegations that it knowingly submitted inflated bills to Medicare for therapy services that were medically unnecessary or were never provided to elderly patients at six of its Southern California skilled nursing facilities.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: National Park ServiceNews Release. - Nov. 19, 2013. Merrith Baughman 402-223-3514. Nature Detectives! Investigate and Explore Your Winter World!. Calling all kids! Use your outdoor investigating skills to become a winter Nature Detective at Homestead National Monument of America. Join park rangers...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - The Fire Chief for the Kinloch Fire Protection District, DARRAN KELLEY, was sentenced to 33 months in prison and ordered to pay $259,738 restitution. He was sentenced on charges involving his unauthorized use of more than $140,000 of District funds from January 2007 to Jan. 11, 2013...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: OAKLAND - Yesterday, a federal jury convicted Antonio Chavez of assaulting a private security guard who was assisting a federal officer, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: A Toledo man was sentenced to more than nine years in prison for a firearms conviction, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cleveland office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Derrick Nathaniel Hartfield, 46, of Smyrna, Ga., and Rico Carty Clemons, 48, of Riverdale, Ga., were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard T. Haik for defrauding Wal-Mart and other retail businesses nationwide out of...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Francis M. Buckner Jr., 41, of New Llano, La., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard T. Haik, to 72 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release for possession of child pornography. He was also required to register as a sex offender. Buckner pleaded guilty on July 17, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore yesterday sentenced Porscha Williams to four years in federal prison for theft of government property and aggravated identity theft. As part of her sentence, the court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $9,116.00, the proceeds of the charged criminal conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: URBANA, Ill. -- A Kankakee man who admitted that he attempted to rob two Kankakee banks in the fall of 2012 has been sentenced. On Nov. 14, 2013, U.S. District Judge Michael P. McCuskey ordered Nevin L. Lenton, 26, to serve 188 months in federal prison (15 years, 8 months). On Jul. 9, 2013, Lenton entered...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a man from Mexico convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute of a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Nov. 15, 2013, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today welcomed a federal appeals court ruling ordering the Department of Energy to zero out its nuclear waste fee until work resumes on Yucca Mountain or another repository.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department, along with federal and state partners, today announced a $13 billion settlement with JPMorgan - the largest settlement with a single entity in American history - to resolve federal and state civil claims arising out of the packaging, marketing, sale and issuance of...
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: A Congressional hearing today focused on the potential benefits, impacts, and policy issues related to the development and implementation of driverless vehicle technology on America’s highways.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: JEFFERSONVILLE - Joseph H. Hogsett, the United States Attorney, presented City of Jeffersonville law enforcement with a check for $40,257 this morning as part of the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program. The award was accepted by Jeffersonville Mayor Mike Moore and Police Chief Chris Grimm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that John L. Lyons, of Caledonia, N.Y., who was convicted of extortion through interstate commerce, was sentenced to eight months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) made the following statement on currency manipulation and the ongoing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Noah John Carney, 19, of Phoenix, Ariz., made his initial appearance in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., on a criminal complaint charging him with enticing a minor to engage in explicit conduct and attempting to induce a minor to produce child pornography.
