News from October 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: “Almost a year to the day after we brought suit, a unanimous jury has found Countrywide, Bank of America, and senior executive Rebecca Mairone liable for making disastrously bad loans and systematically removing quality checks in favor of its own balance. As demonstrated at trial, they adopted a program that they called “the Hustle," which treated quality control and underwriting as a joke.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Fordland, Mo., man who was on parole after being convicted of child molestation was sentenced in federal court today for downloading child pornography to his cell...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: Michael Mateja, 27, of Massachusetts, Matthew Morgan, 39, of Schnecksville, PA, and Samuel Puleo, 26, of Fogelsville, PA, are charged by Information, filed yesterday, with a fraud scheme involving energy contracts, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the information, Mateja and Puleo owned and operated Coastal Energy, LLC, a company that brokered energy contracts between commercial businesses and energy suppliers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: An Aurora man was sentenced to nearly five years in prison and ordered to pay more than $600,000 for defrauding his Beachwood-based employer and its investment clients, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the Cleveland office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Kathy A. Enstrom, Special Agent in Charges, IRS Criminal Investigation, Cincinnati Field Office.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - Andersonville National Historic Site, home of the National Prisoner of War Museum, seeks applicants for an annual grant program which will provide financial assistance to support original research and writing leading to interpretive works on the history of American Prisoners of War.These research grants are made possible through the generosity of the Friends of Andersonville.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Andre Ricardo Roach, a/k/a “Squeaky," “Redrum," and “Rum," age 35, of Prince George’s County, Maryland, today to 30 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, after Roach pleaded guilty to conspiracy to participate...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return by a grand jury of an indictment charging Benjamin William Mejias (41, Orlando) with impersonating a federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. If convicted on all counts, Mejias faces a maximum penalty of ten years in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: Dear Mr. Chairman: I am writing to request that the Committee invite additional witnesses to the hearing on October 9, 2013, entitled “Examining the IRS’s Role in Implementing and Enforcing ObamaCare." Although you have explained that the purpose of the hearing is to “focus on the operational challenges...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: Defendant Admits Brandishing a BB Gun During the Robbery.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC-Congressman Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after the House of Representatives voted 407 to 0 to pass H.R. 3302, The Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act, introduced by Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA), and on which Cummings was an original cosponsor...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 39-year-old Tyler, Texas, man has been sentenced to federal prison for child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal grand jury in Harrisburg returned an indictment today charging William Trickett Smith, Sr., age 76, with attempting to arrange a prison escape, lying to federal agents about it, and trying to persuade someone else to lie to federal agents.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 43-year-old Henderson, Texas, man has been sentenced to federal prison for child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - Jesse Tyrone Chavful, 46, of San Antonio, Texas, was sentenced this afternoon, by U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis, to serve a total of 127 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: While fog has been a daily hassle in the lowlands, clear skies, sunshine and warm temperatures have been the daily norm at Mount Rainier with Fall colors still vibrant. Mount Rainier Superintendent Randy King encourages visitors to take advantage of this opportunity to come to the mountain before conditions change.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Oaklyn, New Jersey, has pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of access device fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - National Park Service (NPS) and U.S. Forest Service (USFS) fire managers, working together as the North Zone Interagency Fire Management Program, are preparing for multiple prescribed fires on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. Fire managers anticipate initiating these prescribed fire treatments during the fall and winter months as weather and fuel moisture conditions allow.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: A former business owner who withheld federal taxes from his employees’ paychecks but did not forward the money withheld to the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS"), was sentenced on Oct. 22, 2013, to more than two years in federal prison.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 23, 2013
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Sen. David Vitter today applauded the U.S. House of Representatives for passing the Water Resources Reform and Development Act (WRRDA). In March, the Senate passed their version 83 to 14. Vitter is the lead sponsor of the Senate bill and the top Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, which has jurisdiction over the bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced the filing of a Criminal Information in U.S. District Court in Scranton on Oct. 16, charging Daniel Ortiz, age 28, of Watertown, New York, with the four robberies of convenience stores in April and May 2011.
