News from September 2013
By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
News Release: A Request for Expression of Interest (RFEI) is currently being issued by the National Park Service (NPS) for the Sleeping Bear Inn in Glen Haven. The RFEI allows interested parties to submit their concept(s) for potential adaptive use of the Inn and its garage. The Inn was built in approximately 1865...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - A former Tulsa-based promoter of fraudulent oil and gas investments was sentenced on Thursday to serve nine years in federal prison for perpetrating a $7 million dollar fraud, announced Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
News Release: Receipt And Distribution Of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - A federal jury in Albany returned its verdict following the two-day trial of GUILLERMO ANTONIO SUAREZ, 48, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Customs and Border Protection Director of Field Operations James T. Engleman. The jury found...

By USDA Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Krysta Harden will lead a trade mission to promote U.S. agricultural trade and investment in sub-Saharan Africa, Sept. 16-20. The trade mission launches USDA's Sub-Saharan Africa Trade Initiative, which aims to expand U.S. agricultural commercial ties in the region.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Franklin Lopez, 33, of Buffalo, New York, was charged by criminal complaint with stealing thousands of dollars from the City of Buffalo, a Governmental agency which receives federal funding. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on Sept. 11, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, JERARD DAVID JO THREEFINGERS, a 23-year-old resident of Lame Deer and an enrolled member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, was sentenced to a term of.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Northern District of Indiana. Friday, Sept. 13, 2013. Robert E. Miller, 60, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced by District Judge Jon E. DeGuilio to 37 months of imprisonment, 2 years of supervised release and $264,951.70 in restitution after being found...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - After a four-day trial, before U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson, a federal jury in Amarillo, Texas, has convicted Edgar A Lockett, Jr., on all six counts of an indictment charging tax evasion. Lockett faces a maximum statutory sentence of five years in federal prison and a $250,000...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Charles Allen Nave, III (39, Fort Myers) today pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography. Nave faces a mandatory minimum term of 5 years, up to a maximum of 20 years in federal prison.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
News Release: Massmio Fiorani, 35, of Italy, was charged by information with a committing the crime of interference with a flight crew, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the information Fiorani interfered with the duties of crew members and attendants on board a U.S. Airways flight from Barcelona to Philadelphia on August 7, 2013.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
News Release: South Bend, IN-The United States Attorney's Office announced that a Grand Jury sitting in South Bend, Indiana, returned the following Indictments on Sept. 11, 2013.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that yesterday Leslie Louise Brewster of Durham, N.C. was sentenced to serve 70 months in federal prison for crimes related to preparing false tax returns and identity fraud. She was also ordered to pay restitution to the IRS of $92,910. Brewster was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge for the Middle District of North Carolina William Osteen Jr., in Greensboro, N.C.

By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
News Release: SEASONAL FIRE RESTRICTIONS LIFTED AT LAKE MEAD NRA.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Craig, Colorado, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Pay Child Support.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
News Release: BOISE - U.S. Attorneys from the Attorney General’s Advisory Council (AGAC) Native American Issues Subcommittee (NAIS) will meet in Hood River, Ore., next week, Sept. 17-19, 2013. On the agenda are, among other items, efforts to strengthen offender reentry efforts in Indian country, to address juvenile...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Friday, Sept. 13, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. COLUMBUS, OHIO- Ovell Harrison, 55, of Columbus, Ohio pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on Sept. 12, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy, RODNEY ROYCE MILLER, a 60-year-old resident of Kalispell, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Mark S. Farhood, 49, formerly of San Diego, Cal., and Jason S. Sant, 38, of Lecanto, Fla., were sentenced today for their roles in operating a nationwide online foreclosure rescue scam that went by various names, including Home Advocate Trustees and Walk Away Today, and used various web sites, including walkawaytoday.org and sellfastusa.com, to deceive hundreds of vulnerable, distressed homeowners into surrendering their properties to the company.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Agency Village, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Involuntary Manslaughter.