News from October 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO ― Zachary T. Fardon, who served as a federal prosecutor for nearly a decade before entering private law practice, returned to government service today as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. Mr. Fardon, 47, took his oath of office from Chief U.S. District Court Judge Ruben Castillo after President Obama signed his commission.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: Also Provided Faulty Aircraft Parts to Department of Defense.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - FREDERICK CRAYTON, St. Louis City, was sentenced this morning to 168 months in prison. He pled guilty in July to federal gun and assault charges involving the April 18, 2013, assault of a federal officer. His brother, DWAYNE CRAYTON, also pled guilty in July to charges of selling crack cocaine to an undercover officer and was sentenced today to 32 months in prison. Both defendants appeared before United States District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig in St. Louis.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Ranking Member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) highlighted a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), titled Federal Real Property: Greater Transparency and Strategic Focus Needed for...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: An indictment, unsealed today, charges former Philadelphia Police Officer Joseph Harvey, 39, of Philadelphia, PA, with deprivation of civil rights under color of law, and Philadelphia Police Officer Sean Cahill, 34, of Philadelphia, PA, with making a material false statement, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Both defendants were arrested this morning.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after meeting with Robert Benmosche, the CEO of American International Group (AIG), who traveled to Washington, D.C. to apologize in person for equating congressional and public criticism of AIG’s excessive bonuses during the financial crisis with lynchings in the Deep South...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - The two owners of a tax preparation business that claimed millions of dollars in fraudulent tax refunds on behalf of inmates at various New Jersey prisons were arrested this morning in Laurel, Del., U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: On Monday morning, Oct. 21, park rangers were notified of a deceased man in the Moraine Park Campground in Rocky Mountain National Park. They discovered his body in his tent at the Moraine Park Campground and notified park rangers. Park rangers and an ambulance responded. The man was subsequently pronounced dead at the scene. Next of kin have been notified. The man has been identified as Tommy Cobb, 55, of Oxford, Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: A naturalized United States citizen, who was convicted in Israel for participating in a terrorist bombing, was charged with immigration fraud, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ORLANDO SANTIAGO, 38, of New London, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 70 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing heroin. He was also ordered to pay a $1,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Denver, Colorado, man charged with Failure to Pay Child Support was sentenced on Oct. 21, 2013, by U.S. District Court Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Two former deputy sheriffs from Duval County have been sentenced to prison for conspiracy to distribute cocaine, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Ruben Silva, 35, of Freer, and Victor Carrillo, 28, of Benavides, pleaded guilty Aug. 30, 2012.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today announced letters to five technology companies asking for more information about their involvement, if any, in the effort to fix the many problems with Healthcare.gov. The letters were sent to Verizon Enterprise Inc., Google, Microsoft, Oracle and Expedia, and are the first of an ongoing inquiry.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSE RAMON NAVARRO-HERNANDEZ, 33, a citizen of Honduras last residing in Manchester, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to six months of imprisonment for illegally reentering the U.S. after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - MICHAEL ENGLER was charged for allegedly soliciting sex from a minor on Craigslist. But that minor was an undercover officer working with the FBI’s Crimes Against Children Task Force.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announces the new date for the close of the protest period for the Trest Rios Resource Management Plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Reeds Spring, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: Scheme Victimized Financially Struggling Homeowners Across The United States.
