News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Illinois resident pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of mail fraud, distribution of human growth hormone and money laundering, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: The former Ottawa County sheriff was charged with improperly spending about $5,000 that was to be used for law enforcement purposes to instead pay for for personal items including Cedar Point tickets, clothing and prescription medicine, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: Police found a total more than 3,700 wrapped doses of heroin and cocaine during traffic stop.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return by a grand jury of an indictment charging Fuada Delic (31, Jacksonville) with tax fraud. Delic, who owned a tax preparation business (“Delica’s Tax Service"), is charged with 2 counts of filing fraudulent tax...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - U.S. Attorney Jim Lewis announced today that the Central District of Illinois collected $11.5 million for taxpayers in criminal and civil actions in fiscal year 2013. Of this amount, $1,535,380 was collected in criminal actions by the Central District alone; an additional $2,600,849...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Acting United States Attorney John R. Marti announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota collected $16,782,266.24 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2013. Of this amount, $8,237,258.34 was collected in criminal actions and $8,545,007.90 was collected in civil actions.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Democrats today launched an online counter - available here - to track the growing number of Americans who are losing their unemployment insurance. The counter is illustrative of the approximately 72,000 Americans who are losing benefits, on average, every week - the equivalent of one person every eight seconds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A former Chicago tax preparer pleaded guilty to filing nearly 3,200 false federal income tax returns for clients, while in a separate case in Federal Court yesterday, a suburban tax preparer was sentenced to 63 months in prison for fraudulently claiming more than $8 million in tax refunds from...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom announced today that the District of Kansas collected $12.1 million in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2013. Of this amount, $6.1 million was collected in criminal actions and $6 million was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), announced that Defendant Rosalina M.T. Gabutin, age 45, was sentenced on January 6, 2014, in the District Court of Guam to serve 48 months in federal prison followed by five years...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced the appointment of 152 producers and four importers to the 2013 National Pork Producers Delegate Body. The appointees were selected from nominees submitted by state pork producer association and importer groups and will serve a one-year term.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: Federal authorities have arrested three Permian Basin business owners and a title company executive charged in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme that involved approximately 800 real estate properties and about $45 million in loans announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist, El Paso Division.
By State Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement regarding the latest developments in Tunisia:
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - An indictment was returned today by a federal grand jury sitting in Savannah, Georgia, charging CARL EVAN SWAIN, aka “COWBOY," 43, a resident of Alabama, with first degree murder in the beating death of Specialist John Joseph Beans Eubank, 29, on Nov. 30, 2013, on Fort Stewart. Federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - The Central Alabama Violent Gang Safe Streets Task Force has been created to combat the increase in violence in Central Alabama, announced Chief Paul Register, Auburn Police Department; Chief Greg Benton, Dothan Police Department; Sheriff Bill Franklin, Elmore County Sheriff’s Office;...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A seventeen-count federal superseding indictment charging nine members of the “Central Divis Playas," a/k/a “CDP" gang, and one associate, was returned by the Grand Jury on January 9, 2014, in federal court, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag. The ten defendants, all of San Francisco, listed below, are already in state or federal custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Acting U.S. Attorney Steven C. Yarbrough announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Mexico collected $1,150,777.56 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2013. Of this amount, $915,306.03 was collected in criminal actions and $235,471.53 was collected in civil actions.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: As part of the Energy Department's commitment to helping families across the United States save money by saving energy, the Department announced today its first major software update to the Home Energy Scoring Tool, developed by the Department's Building Technologies Office and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: Former Employee Pleads Guilty to Stealing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: Jose Alonso Bedolla-Vasquez, 22, of Mexico, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on January 6, 2014, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Bedolla-Vasquez was arrested in Jackson, Wyoming. He received time served plus ten days...
