News from September 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Human Resources Subcommittee Ranking Member Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), and Human Resources Subcommittee Chairman Dave Reichert (R-WA) today introduced the Promoting Adoption and Legal Guardianship for Children in Foster Care Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: A Rose City dentist was arrested and arraigned yesterday in federal court on an indictment charging him with one count of evasion of payment of federal income taxes, one count of mail fraud and one count of making false statements to the IRS, United States Attorney Barbara McQuade announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Two men who crossed state lines to commit sex acts with a minor pled guilty in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Luis Carlos Muchado, 34, of Richmond, Va., was sentenced today to 97 months in prison for his participation in a violent and highly sophisticated jewelry theft ring that operated out of Richmond.
By State Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Washington D.C. - Ranking Member Eliot Engel, the senior Democratic member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement on a proposed United Nations Security Council resolution mandating the destruction of Assad’s chemical weapons.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On Sept. 24, 2013, a federal grand jury in Chattanooga returned a 35-count indictment against Dr. Raymond Sean Brown, 44, of McDonald, Tenn., for wire fraud, mail fraud, health care fraud and money laundering. Brown’s initial appearance and arraignment is scheduled for 2:00 p.m., Oct. 1, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan K. Lee, U.S. District Court, Chattanooga.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Deirdre M. Daly, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), today announced funding awards for the District of Connecticut.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, today announced $3.8 million in law enforcement hiring grants statewide, including about $1 million in the Northern District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: “The bone-chilling allegations in today's Indictment read like they were ripped from the pages of a Tom Clancy novel. The charges tell a tale of an international band of mercenary marksmen who enlisted their elite military training to serve as hired guns for evil ends. Three of the defendants were ready...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - U.S. Attorney Amanda Marshall, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), today announced funding awards for the District of Oregon. The grantees and amount awarded include.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Gordon J. Plugh, 42, of Wayland, N.Y., formerly of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of receipt of child pornography, was sentenced to 60 months in prison and 30 years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: ATLANTA - Otis Henry has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for trafficking over 700,000 pills of BZP, a drug similar to ecstasy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Sept. 26, 2013, Julia Clymer, 48, of Collinsville, IL, pled guilty to a two-count information charging in count one that she engaged in a scheme to commit health care fraud and in count two...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - ELIAS VEGA AMADO, 33, a Mexican national, was sentenced by United States Chief District Judge Joe Heaton to serve 240 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: LITTLE ROCK - U.S. Attorney Christopher R. Thyer, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), announced today funding awards for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Contact: Public Information Officer. Number: (313) 234-4310. BAY CITY, Mich. - Four residents of northern Michigan have been charged with participating in a drug trafficking organization, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. A ten-count indictment was returned by a federal...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is offering a public tour of its Indian Lakes Road Short-Term Holding Facility in Fallon, Nev., Friday, October 19. There will be two consecutive tours each day that last two hours each and can accommodate up to 15 people each. The first tour will begin at 11 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: HONOLULU - Defendants Roger Cusick Christie, age 64, and Sherryanne L. Christie, age 62, husband and wife, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court before U.S. Magistrate Judge Richard L. Puglisi to marijuana trafficking and tax offenses. Roger Christie pled guilty to conspiring to manufacture, distribute, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - A Colombian national claiming the name Santos Diaz-Soto, 27, been ordered to federal prison for 21 years for his involvement in the attempted robbery of a jewelry salesman and his guard, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Diaz-Soto, who resided in Houston and Atlanta, Ga., entered a plea of guilty April 5, 2013, to conspiracy, interference of commerce by robbery and brandishing of a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Following a two-week jury trial, a Las Vegas real estate escrow officer was convicted today of conspiracy and fraud charges for her involvement in a mortgage fraud scheme that caused millions of dollars in losses to the lenders and financial institutions, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
