News from September 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Michigan man charged with Unlawful Transportation of Wildlife in Interstate Commerce pled guilty and was sentenced on Sept. 25, 2013, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Veronica L. Duffy.

By USDA Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 121,600 metric tons of wheat for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2013/2014 marketing year. Of the total, 55,000 tons is hard red winter, 38,800 tons is soft white wheat, and 27,800 tons is hard red spring.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on Sept. 27, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen, CORWIN DALLAS FOUR STAR, a 19-year-old resident of Wolf Point and an enrolled member of a federally-recognized tribe, was sentenced to a term of.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Special agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration Camden High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) Task Force arrested an alleged gang leader in Camden this morning for his charged involvement with an illegal drug trafficking operation, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), today announced funding awards for the District of Kansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: The U.S. Department of Justice gave more than $6.8 million to fight crime in Northern Ohio this month, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Two Other Defendants, Former Members Of The Armed Forces Of Germany And Poland, Are Also Charged With Conspiracy To Import Cocaine.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Eric Young, 40, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to three years in prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and bank fraud. Young and co-conspirator Calvin Johnson ran a scheme in which they hired individuals to open bank accounts, made phony deposits, and made withdrawals from the accounts knowing there were insufficient funds. The defendants defrauded the banks of more than $250,000 between December 2011 and August 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that two women from Fairbanks, Alaska, were sentenced in federal court in Fairbanks for their role in a Fairbanks drug and money laundering conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez on Friday sentenced the captain of a vessel that was involved in a fatal parasailing accident just outside of the Charlotte Amalie Harbor in 2011 to six months home confinement, announced United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe, United States Coast Guard Sector San Juan Commander Captain Drew W. Pearson, and Coast Guard South East Region Criminal Investigative Services Special Agent in Charge Jonathan Sall.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Arizona man, who has been on the run for more than 15 years, was captured by authorities in Arizona on Sept. 10, 2013.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office has intervened in a lawsuit against Pinnacle Bank (Pinnacle) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming according to U.S. Attorney Christopher A. Crofts. The whistleblower lawsuit was originally filed in May 2012 by Hospitality Management, Inc., under the...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Westminster man was charged today in U.S. District Court in Worcester with defrauding Colonial Cooperative Bank in Gardner, Mass.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after the Department of Justice announced a criminal plea agreement with John C. Beale, a former employee of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.

By DOE Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of Sept. 30, 2013. The Communications and Technology Subcommittee will continue its spectrum oversight and the Energy and Power Subcommittee will hold a hearing on bipartisan legislation...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on Sept. 27, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy, RUSSELL LEROY MILLER, a 70-year-old resident of Big Fork, was sentenced to a term of.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, three individuals were sentenced for their roles in the murder of a couple on the Red Lake Indian Reservation on New Year’s Day 2011. United States District Judge Donovan W. Frank sentenced David John Martin, age 46, of Columbia Heights, to 160...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Caught With Pry Tools And Stolen Mail; Victims Include A Church.

By EPA Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of Sept. 30, 2013. The Communications and Technology Subcommittee will continue its spectrum oversight and the Energy and Power Subcommittee will hold a hearing on bipartisan legislation...