News from November 2013
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - The House of Representatives today unanimously approved the Small Airplane Revitalization Act of 2013 (H.R. 1848) a bill that helps streamline the general aviation regulatory regime for aircraft certification in a manner that will improve safety, reduce costs, and stimulate innovation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - John Clifford Pollard pleaded guilty today to one count of aiding and assisting in the preparation and presentation of a false U.S. Income Tax Return United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that DALBERT RODRIGUEZ, 29, recently of Holyoke and Amherst, Mass., has been arrested on a federal criminal complaint charging him with the armed robbery of prescription narcotics from a CVS store in East Hartford last month.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Wendel Palmer, 45, a former officer with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), was found guilty today of sexually abusing a child on numerous occasions between 2004 and 2006, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.), House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Jeff Duncan (R-SC) and Senate Financial and Contracting Oversight Subcommittee Chairwoman Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) highlighteda new...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Raymundo Jose Cabrera-Paredes, of Mission, and Estevan Ochoa-Gomez, of Huixtla, Chiapas, Mexico, have been ordered to federal prison for more than 20 years following their involvement in the distribution of crystal methamphetamine from McAllen to Dallas, announced Javier Peña, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) along with United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Cabrera-Paredes, 47, and Ochoa-Gomez, 44, pleaded guilty in January 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: ATLANTA - Mark Megalli pleaded guilty on Thursday to participating in a multi-million dollar insider trading conspiracy involving Carter’s, Inc. stock.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: United States Sues Four Other Companies and Two Individuals.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Thomas Benally, 53, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Gallup, N.M., was sentenced to ten years in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release for his second degree murder conviction. Benally’s co-defendant, Luke Spencer, 48, a Navajo man who also resides...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today, before United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle, PHYLLIS STALLINGS HARRELL and PAUL LYNN TRUEBLOOD, both of Belvidere, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to Count 1 of the Second Superseding Indictment which charged them with Conspiracy to Commit Health Care Fraud and Wire Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1349.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - A Texas honey broker was sentenced today to three years in federal prison for illegally brokering the sale of hundreds of container loads of Chinese-origin honey, which was misrepresented as originating from India or Malaysia, to avoid anti-dumping duties when it entered the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Nov. 14, 2013, Rodney Eugene Hughes, a 63 year-old resident of Mayfield, Pennsylvania, doing business as Midwest USA Outfitters, Cantril, Iowa, was found guilty in federal court of seven counts of the unlawful sale and/or acquiring of deer, taken and transported in interstate...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has awarded more than $62 million in grants to strengthen efforts to help people returning from prison rejoin their communities and become productive, law-abiding citizens. This grant announcement was made by Attorney General Eric Holder today while in St. Louis, where...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Acting United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that DR. ANTHONY STEPHEN JASE, 44, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay $360,293 in restitution for his convictions on health care fraud.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to strengthening partnerships with Tribal nations and building stronger, more resilient communities that are better prepared for a changing climate, the Energy Department today announced nine tribal clean energy projects to receive more than...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: Shawn Osburn created falsified work orders that were used to steal more than $10K in supplies from Huntington-based Justice Glass and Supply Co.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Florala, Al., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - Earlier today, federal search warrants were executed upon a number of establishments in Shelby County and North Mississippi. These warrants were filed under seal and are part of an ongoing investigation. Therefore, we have no further comment on this matter at this time.
By State Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A resolution introduced by U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) pledging support for the Filipino people following the tragedy caused by Typhoon Haiyan passed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: The Crew Stole Approximately $10,000,000 In Cash And Property.
