News from September 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: San Juan, Puerto Rico - Twenty-three individuals, including street brokers, loan officers, realtors, appraisers, straw buyers and sellers have been charged in a 15-count indictment unsealed today and returned by a grand jury in San Juan, Puerto Rico on September 4, 2013, U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez of the District of Puerto Rico announced today. These charges stem from a scheme used by the defendants to obtain money from mortgage lending institutions.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Logan Storm, a former teacher at Stoller Middle School in Beaverton, Oregon, will spend eight years in prison for possessing child pornography and failing to appear in court the day after a federal jury convicted him of the child pornography offense in January. At a sentencing hearing...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Sixty five people are in custody following Operation Mountain Shadow. Today's sweeps in Ramona and Poway were the conclusion of a year-long undercover drug operation. The Drug Enforcement (DEA), San Diego County Sheriff's Department, and other partner agencies served 12 search warrants at...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: Instructed Restaurant Employees to Make False Statements to Federal Agents.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: The House of Representatives today approved the Streamlining Claims Processing for Federal Contractor Employees Act (H.R. 2747). Introduced by Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) and Ranking Member Joe Courtney (D-CT), the bill moves responsibility for wage claims adjustments for federally-contracted workers from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to the Department of Labor.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Sept. 10, 2013, Nicole Rogers, 25, Rolla, N.D., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on a charge of bank fraud. Rogers pleaded guilty to the charge on March 28, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Sept. 10, 2013, Lisa C. Luckett, 50, of Cahokia, IL, pled guilty to a two-count indictment charging that she engaged in a scheme to commit health care fraud. At her sentencing Luckett will...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today announced that her Denali Park Improvement Act is headed to President Obama’s desk to be signed into law. The bill includes three separate measures to reduce the use of diesel fuel, improve energy access in Denali National Park and Preserve, and honor Athabascan climber Walter Harper.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, United States District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis sentenced Ronell Wilson to death for the murders of two New York City Police Department Detectives, Rodney J. Andrews and James V. Nemorin.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - Zhen Zhou Wu, a Chinese national, was re-sentenced yesterday to 84 months in prison for conspiring over a 10-year-period to illegally export military and sophisticated electronics to the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 10, 2013 - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) and Ranking Democratic Member Peter DeFazio (OR-04) sent a to Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz urging him to listen to regional electric customer input before implementing new proposals that could force additional operating costs on the Bonneville Power Administration (Bonneville) and the Western Area Power Administration (Western).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Michael Phillip Telemaque, 47, of the United Kingdom, was found guilty by a federal jury on four counts of impeding or hampering his deportation. U.S. District Judge Patricia Minaldi presided over the trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Helena, on Sept. 10, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, THOMAS MICHAEL SHUMATE, a 35-year-old resident of Red Lodge, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Gabriel Anthony Saiz, 20, of Silver City, N.M., pleaded guilty in federal court in Las Cruces this afternoon to firearms charges. Saiz entered his guilty plea without the benefit of a plea agreement.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC -- Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to President Obama's address tonight to the nation regarding Syria...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
Release: By Jason Carver, Senior Economist, FAS Global Policy Analysis Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Justin L. Ellis, 26, of Shawnee, Oklahoma, and a tribal member of the Kickapoo Tribe, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Friot to serve 90 months in federal prison for malicious injury of a four-year old child on the federal lands held in trust for the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Jeremy Jeunesse, a/k/a Jeremy Chasing Horse, a/k/a Jeremy Trudell, age 34, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, appeared before Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court on September 5, 2013, and pled guilty to Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Kim Hout Lor, 66, and Bun Vireak Long, 19, have been taken into custody on charges of tampering with witnesses in a pending official proceeding, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson today. Lor is also charged with making false statements.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: In late September the National Park Service (NPS) will be issuing a prospectus soliciting for proposals in response to a business opportunity to operate overnight rustic lodging, food and beverage, retail and horse stabling service at Charit Creek Lodge within the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area located in Oneida, Tennessee. The term of the new concession contract will be for ten years.
