News from November 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announce that defendant Annabel Cooper was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison, followed by three years...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Derrick Diaz, the former leader of a crew of robbers who targeted innocent civilians in their homes, was sentenced to 20 years in prison following his Feb. 10, 2012, guilty plea to Hobbs Act robbery conspiracy. The sentence also included a term of supervised release of 3 years and an order that Diaz make restitution payments in the amount of $296,300 to his victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: Eligibility Criteria Will Recognize Thousands Of Victims Who Have So Far Been Excluded From Recovery Efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Watertown, South Dakota, man has been charged with Unlawful Taking of Migratory Birds and Lacey Act Violations by an Information filed Oct. 30, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Alex White Eyes, a 24-year-old woman from Eagle Butte, South Dakota, pled guilty to Accessory After The Fact and was sentenced on Nov. 14, 2013, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Alexander Winter, 27, of Pine Ridge, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Veronica L. Duffy on Nov. 14, 2013, and pled guilty to a charge of Assault by Striking, Beating, and Wounding.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Simona Rus, 36, of Ketchum, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to unlawful procurement of United States Citizenship based on her fraudulent marriage to a United States citizen, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An Orange County-based ambulance company has paid the United States more than $3 million to settle a lawsuit alleging it received overpayments from the Medicare program and other federal healthcare programs for transporting patients who were not eligible for ambulance transports, United States Attorney André Birotte Jr. announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Gregory, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) applauded today’s Senate passage of H.R. 3204, the Drug Quality and Security Act. The bill is the product of a bipartisan, bicameral agreement championed by Chairman Upton and was passed by the House of Representatives on...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) applauded today’s Senate passage of H.R. 3204, the Drug Quality and Security Act. The bill is the product of a bipartisan, bicameral agreement championed by Chairman Upton and was passed by the House of Representatives on...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HI - Visitors to Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park now through April could get lucky and spot pairs of the endemic Hawaiian goose, or nēnē, flying overhead or grazing with goslings.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: OCALA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced today that William Deboris Gordon, (41, Ocala) pleaded guilty to charges of attempted possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Pomona man pleaded guilty today to a federal drug trafficking charge for possessing more than one-half pound of methamphetamine that he was planning to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - On the day his trial was to begin in federal court in Dallas, Brian Marshall, 49, of Tampa, Fla., pleaded guilty to one count of securities and commodities fraud, stemming from his scheme to defraud investors in connection with the sale of Home Solutions of America, Inc. stock, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) applauded today’s Senate passage of H.R. 3204, the Drug Quality and Security Act. The bill is the product of a bipartisan, bicameral agreement championed by Chairman Upton and was passed by the House of Representatives on...
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter to Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), requesting an update on the economic data for domestic energy development, including oil and gas, coal, wind, and solar. Such an update will inform policy makers and help the American people understand the financial impacts of various energy sources on the federal treasury.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Raymond Jones, 23, has been sentenced to serve nine years and eight months in prison for a pair of robberies that targeted women in Northwest Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Dodge City man has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for assault with a dangerous weapon in connection with a federal racketeering case, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
