News published on Federal Newswire in March 2014

News from March 2014


News Release: LOWELL, MA - In celebration of International Women's Month and as an event of the extended Lowell Women's Week schedule, Lowell National Historical Park presents Tuscarora singer Jennifer Kreisberg. She comes from a family in which the last four generations on her mother's side consisted of seven singing sisters.


News Release: St. Louis, MO - RICHARD SADDLER owned Omicron Capital LLC, a company in the business of assisting customers in refinancing commercial and real estate loans.


Federal Grand Jury Criminal Indictments Announced

News Release: TULSA, Okla. - The results of the March 2014 Federal Grand Jury were announced today by Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.


Subcommittee Will Hold Hearing on MAP-21 Implementation and President’s Budget for DOT Surface Transportation Programs

News Release: Highways and Transit Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Tom Petri (R-WI) will hold a hearing on Wednesday to examine the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) implementation of MAP-21, and the DOT’s surface transportation priorities in the President’s Fiscal Year 2015 Budget.


News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh-area family doctor has been sentenced in federal court to one year of probation with 200 hours of community service and a $5000 fine on his conviction of the unlawful sale of pharmaceutical drug samples, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.


Week In Review – South Bend

News Release: South Bend, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.


News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Michael Pouls, 52, of Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for fraudulently inducing two banks to loan him a total of $13.35 million. Pouls defrauded National Penn Bank in 2007 and the former Wilmington Bank in 2008 by presenting fraudulent securities statements. He pleaded guilty on Dec. 10, 2012 to one count of bank fraud, one count of wire fraud and two counts of loan fraud.


News Release: Earlier today, Thomas Qualls, the President of International Foreign Currency, Inc., was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 210 months following his convictions for mail fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy and obstruction of justice. The proceeding was held before the Hon. Dora L. Irizarry, United States District Judge, at the United States Courthouse in Brooklyn. Judge Irizarry also imposed restitution of approximately $817,000.


Harkin: Jobs Report Emphasizes Need to Renew Federal Unemployment Insurance

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the February employment numbers. Today’s report shows that the economy added 175,000 jobs, yet the current unemployment rate is 6.7 percent.



News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.


Pueblo Man Sentenced To 71 Months In Federal Prison For Tax Evasion, Bank Fraud And Interfering With IRS Laws

News Release: DENVER - Michael Destry Williams, age 49, of Pueblo, Colorado, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Christine M. Arguello to serve 71 months in federal prison for tax evasion, currency structuring, bank fraud, and interfering with the IRS’s administration of the internal revenue laws...


News Release: DALLAS - Law enforcement teams assigned to the North Texas Trafficking Task Force (NTTTF) executed state search warrants Wednesday arresting 21 foreign-national women at 10 Dallas massage parlors suspected of operating as fronts for the illegal sex industry and harboring illegal aliens.


Tourism to Fire Island National Seashore creates $19,258,500 in Economic Benefit

News Release: Patchogue, New York - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 483,334 visitors to Fire Island National Seashore in 2012 spent $19+ million in communities near the park. That spending supported 206 jobs in the local area.


Farm Bill Stakeholder Listening Session

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News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Thomas O’Donnell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Office of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (“HHS-OIG"), today announced charges against ALEXANDER KNOBEL...


Former Florida Resident Arrested For Attempted Sex Trafficking

News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Patrick R. Minga (50, formerly of Cape Coral) was arrested today on a criminal complaint for attempting to induce and facilitate, for his own financial gain, the travel of an individual from Brevard County, Florida, to Quito, Ecuador, so that the individual could engage in illicit sexual conduct with minor girls. If convicted, Minga faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison.


News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Hugo Barrera, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), announce the sentencing of Samuel George Brown, 49, of Fort Pierce, on charges of prohibited possession of firearms, in...


News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury today found Kristian Keron Green (23, Lakeland) guilty of conspiracy to interfere with interstate commerce by robbery, interference with interstate commerce by robbery, and using and carrying a firearm during and in...


News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man has been charged by an Information filed May 15, 2013, with a federal offense of Failure to Appear.