News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: AUNG GAW, a/k/a Michael Gaw, age 25, of Fremont, California, was charged today in a two count indictment with Conspiracy to Produce Child Pornography and Receipt of Materials Involving the Sexual Exploitation of Minors, announced U. S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Robert Mikail, 41, formerly of Ashburn, Va., was sentenced today to 52 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in fraudulent mortgage loan transactions involving approximately 36 properties in northern Virginia and nearly $20 million in fraudulently obtained loans. Mikail also was ordered to pay approximately $6 million in restitution to lenders and to forfeit to the government $882,387 in proceeds of his crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney David Capp announced today that the Northern District of Indiana (NDIN) collected over $15 million in Fiscal Year 2013.This amount was the total of civil and criminal collections processed in the Northern District of Indiana as the result of efforts by the United States Attorney’s Office and other components of the Department of Justice.The budget for the United States Attorney’s Office for Fiscal Year 2013 was approximately $7.9 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that U.S. District Judge Richard A. Lazzara today sentenced Jameshia Mack (27, Tampa) to 75 months in federal prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for filing fraudulent tax returns using stolen personal identifying...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Steven M. Dettelbach announced that the Northern District of Ohio collected $23.9 million in Fiscal Year 2013 from criminal and civil actions handled exclusively or primarily by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio, about 150 percent of the office’s annual budget.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced today that the District of the Virgin Islands collected $2,671,486 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2013. Of this amount, $2,387,388 was collected in criminal actions and $284,098 was collected in civil actions.
By State Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democratic Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement regarding the reports of an oil for goods deal made between Iran and Russia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - David Arthur Rohm, 65, of Jackson, TN, was sentenced yesterday to 87 months in federal prison following his guilty plea to one count of receipt of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: On Wednesday, January 8, at approximately 4:30 p.m. two lost hikers contacted park rangers by cell phone. The 23-year-old male and female, from out of state, had reached the summit of Flattop Mountain (12,324 feet elevation) and became lost when hiking back down.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Cora Cadia Ford has been sentenced for filing false federal tax returns for refund using stolen identities, including those of homeless and disabled persons.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office today announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: Yosemite National Park will offer free admission into the park on Monday, Jan. 20, 2014 in celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The fee free waiver is for all visitors in honor of the holiday.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Clarion, Pa., was sentenced today in federal court to one year and a day, and ordered to pay $215,033.00 in restitution, on her conviction of criminal conspiracy, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 49-year-old Palestine, Texas man has pleaded guilty to child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: More organized crime dismantled in Marion County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Bajram Lajqi, a member of an international drug trafficking syndicate led by ethnic Albanians located in the United States, Canada, and Europe (the "syndicate"), was sentenced to 115 months in prison -- with credit for the 31 months he has already ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jacqueline Runyan, 48, of Bradford, PA, who was convicted of conspiracy to transport firearms purchased outside the state of residency, was sentenced to 12 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Court Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today overwhelmingly passed H.R. 3811 - the Health Exchange Security and Transparency Act. This legislation, introduced by Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), would require the Department of Health and Human Services to quickly notify Americans...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee welcomed the announcement this week that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is moving forward with implementation of the Drug Quality and Security Act, which Harkin led to Senate passage in November 2013 and President Obama signed later that month.
