News from September 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Tiffany Margaret Taylor, 33, has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison following her convictions of conspiracy, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Four residents of northern Michigan have been charged with participating in a drug trafficking organization, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a 36-year-old Minnetonka man pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography. Jonathan Charles Otto pleaded guilty to one count of distribution of child pornography. Otto, who was indicted on July 23, 2013, entered his plea before United States District Judge Richard H. Kyle.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Donald E. Bruce, 75, of Elberfeld, Indiana, pled guilty today in United States District Court in Benton on an indictment charging him with escaping from the Federal Prison Camp at Marion, Illinois, 13 years ago, announced Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: NEWNAN, Ga. - Justin D. Corley was sentenced today to serve five years in federal prison for receiving child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Jared Polis (D-CO) and Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee Peter DeFazio (D-OR) asked the House Resources Committee to hold a hearing on oil and gas spills caused by the recent catastrophic floods in Colorado.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Wilderness Inquiry, based at Mississippi River and National Recreation Area in Minneapolis, Minnesota, hitched their up Canoemobile and rolled into Michigan City, Indiana just east of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. The program launched over 1,000 local students out onto the water in 24-foot, reproduction...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of New York. Friday, Sept. 27, 2013.
By State Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on President Obama’s phone conversation with Iran’s President Rouhani...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Kyle, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault by Striking, Beating and Wounding and Simple Assault was sentenced on Sept. 16, 2013, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Flandreau, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Pay Child Support.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: ATLANTA - Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent in (SAC) of the DEA Atlanta Field (AFD),is sending a warning to the public about the dangers of “Molly," a well-documented and dangerous designer drug that has recently surfaced at a number of large music events, with catastrophic consequences. The pure, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Contact: Public Information Officer. Number: (313) 234-4310. COVINGTON, Ky. - A Newport, Ky., man, who previously admitted to selling heroin in northern Kentucky on multiple occasions, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. On Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013, U.S. District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Ashref Abil Bannaga, age 32, of Gaithersburg, Maryland today to five years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for the December 7, 2011, armed bank robbery of the Capitol One Bank in Frederick, Maryland. At the time of the robbery, Bannaga was on federal supervised release after serving a sentence of 70 months for a 2006 Virginia bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Defendant threatened to kill children, police officers and their families.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: LITTLE ROCK - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas announced today that Ricky Thompson, age 33, of Blytheville, made his initial appearance before United States Magistrate Judge Joe J. Volpe on a Criminal Complaint charging him with distribution of a controlled substance and conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Kan-Di-Ki, LLC, doing business as Diagnostic Laboratories and Radiology (Diagnostic Labs), has agreed to pay $17.5 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims to Medicare and Medi-Cal (the State of California’s Medicaid program) that were tainted by a kickback scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today introduced H.R. 3204, the Drug Quality and Security Act, the result of a bipartisan, bicameral effort to improve drug safety and help prevent a future public health crisis like the 2012 deadly meningitis outbreak tied to the New England Compounding Center (NECC).
By DOE Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today introduced H.R. 3204, the Drug Quality and Security Act, the result of a bipartisan, bicameral effort to improve drug safety and help prevent a future public health crisis like the 2012 deadly meningitis outbreak tied to the New England Compounding Center (NECC).
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Rangers and Mountain Rescue volunteers at Mount Rainier National Park recovered the body of George Merriam, 66, of Lakewood, Washington today after an overnight search on Pinnacle Peak.
