News from September 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: Additional Contact: Malinda Miller-Huey, CU spokesperson, 303-492-3115. Ana Maria Rey, a theoretical physicist and a fellow of JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder, today was named a winner of a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: OAKLAND - Ismael Eduardo Axtle was sentenced on Sept. 23, 2013, to 276 months in federal prison for carjacking, robbery, possession of methamphetamine for sale, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Oakland man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that Jimmy Laverne Holmes (57, Fleming Island) has been charged by a federal criminal complaint with receiving child pornography over the Internet. If convicted, Holmes faces at least 5 years, and up to 20 years...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on Sept. 24, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen, LELAND NEIL LAPIER, JR., a 28-year-old resident of Great Falls, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Binh Vo, 39, an American citizen living in Vietnam, has been arrested and charged with bribery, visa fraud and conspiracy to commit those offenses as well as to defraud the United States, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and U.S. Department of State Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) Director Gregory B. Starr announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: Defendant Plotted To Murder Family Members Of Man He Believed Helped His Daughter Escape From Pakistan To The United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO ― Ten defendants, including five licensed loan originators, were indicted for allegedly participating in a scheme to fraudulently obtain approximately 52 residential mortgage loans totaling at least $14.5 million from various lenders. The indictment alleges that the mortgages were obtained to...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement after the House passed H.R. 2775, No Subsidies Without Verification Act. The legislation would prohibit federal subsidies for the ObamaCare Exchange from being provided until the independent HHS Inspector General verifies applicants are eligible for the taxpayer-funded subsidies.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: Dear Secretary Lew: Thank you for meeting with Members of the Senate Finance Committee on September 18 to discuss the statutory debt limit. That limit, which currently stands at $16.7 trillion, has been raised by a cumulative $5.4 trillion since President Obama took office in 2009, the largest increase...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: MICHAEL LARRIEU, age 25, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Jay C. Zainey to twelve months in prison for failing to register as a sex offender, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on Sept. 25, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen, CRESTON KINDNESS, a 30-year-old resident of Fort Hall, Idaho, and an enrolled member of a federally-recognized tribe, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Margarito Tristan III, 28, of Donna, has been ordered to federal prison for aiming a laser at a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) helicopter, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Tristan pleaded guilty July 1, 2013.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - As the debate over funding of the government continues, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today took to the floor of the U.S. Senate to make a strong defense of the Affordable Care Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - Montrell Levelle Arnold, 42, of Memphis, TN, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury on two counts of extortion and two counts of bribery, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: EL PASO, Texas - In El Paso this morning, U.S. District Judge Frank Montalvo sentenced 25-year-old Julio Adrian Pesqueira-Galaviz, to the statutory maximum of 15 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for his leadership role in a scheme to illegally purchase firearms in...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Otha Easley, Acting Special Agent in Charge, NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement, and David Pharo, Resident Agent in Charge U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Miami, announce that Eric P. Pedersen, 51, of Grassy Key, Florida...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Chad Speicher, 29, of Beaver Dams, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, was sentenced to 46 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ALWAR POURYAN, 38, a U.S. citizen, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 25 years in prison for conspiring to provide material support to the Taliban and conspiring to acquire anti-aircraft missiles.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - James Allen Sutton, 33, of Newport News, Va., was sentenced yesterday to 105 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release, for his role in a conspiracy to defraud the United States, money laundering, and illegally possessing a firearm as a felon.
