News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2014
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Davidson L. Alfred, 51, of St. John was arrested today and charged with bank fraud, announced United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe. Alfred appeared in District Court before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller on Wednesday and was remanded to the custody of the United States Marshals Service pending a detention hearing scheduled for Wednesday, May 21, 2014.
By DOE Newswire | May 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today continued its oversight of the Federal Communications Commission. Hearing from FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, members addressed a number of issues before the commission, including the upcoming incentive auction, the commission’s work on net neutrality rules, broadcast sharing agreements, and FCC process reform.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2014
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS- Yesterday in federal court in St. Paul, United States District Court Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that a federal grand jury returned an Indictment against TERRENCE PENDERGRASS, a correction officer and former captain, on a civil rights charge arising out of his deliberately ignoring the urgent medical needs...
By Interior Newswire | May 20, 2014
News Release: Las Vegas - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will hold an auction Thursday, May 22 at 10 a.m. to sell 120 acres of public land in 12 parcels in Clark County. Parcels vary in size from 2.5 to 25 acres and are located in the southern portion of the Las Vegas Valley.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Credit Suisse AG pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to aid and assist U.S. taxpayers in filing false income tax returns and other documents with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The guilty plea by the Swiss corporation is the result of a years-long investigation by U.S. law enforcement authorities that has also produced indictments of eight Credit Suisse executives since 2011; two of those individuals have pleaded guilty so far.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of New York. Monday, May 19, 2014.
By USDA Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: Nocturnal monitoring by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists has confirmed that voracious worms in the Pacific Northwest are behind the disappearance of field pesticides used to control equally voracious slugs. These findings by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) agronomist George Mueller-Warrant...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Drew J. Breakspear, Commissioner, Florida Office of Financial Regulation, announce that Karl Oreste, 56, of Miramar...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Monday, May 19, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. On May 19, 2014, Rusty J. Smith, 35, and Jonathan E. Merydith, 26, both of Cobden, Ruth D. Wiseman, a/k/a “Diane Wiseman," 51, of Anna, and Shannon L. Connett, 36, of Marion, were charged...
By USDA Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, May 19, 2014 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today made the following statement on the House appropriations bill: "The House bill would undermine the effort to provide kids with more nutritious food and would be a major step backwards for the health of American children, just at the time ...
By USDA Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: Mexico Expands Imports as Vilsack Joins Mexico's Secretary of Agriculture and Canada's Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food in Mexico City MEXICO CITY, May 19, 2014 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today highlighted recent progress on a number of trade issues with Mexico following a panel discussion ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: A grand jury in the Western District of Pennsylvania (WDPA) indicted five Chinese military hackers for computer hacking, economic espionage and other offenses directed at six American victims in the U.S. nuclear power, metals and solar products industries. The indictment alleges that the defendants conspired ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: Former WellCare Chief Executive Officer Todd S. Farha, 45, of Tampa, Florida, was sentenced today in the Middle District of Florida to serve 36 months in prison for defrauding the Florida Medicaid program.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: Barry V. Voss of St. Paul, Minnesota, pleaded guilty today to failure to pay over employment taxes , announced Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the Justice Department's Tax Division Justice, U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger for the District of Minnesota and Special Agent in Charge Kelly R. ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: James Everett Dutschke, 41, of Tupelo, Mississippi., was sentenced today by United States District Judge Sharion Aycock, in Aberdeen, Mississippi., to a 300 month prison sentence for developing and possessing the biological agent ricin and subsequently mailing ricin-laced, threatening letters including one that threatened bodily harm to the President of the United States. Dutschke was also sentenced to serve a term of 5 years supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder, Deputy Attorney General James Cole, Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division Kathryn Keneally and IRS Commissioner John Koskinen will hold a press conference TODAY, MONDAY, MAY 19, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. to announce a major law enforcement action.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder issued the following statement today in response to a federal jury in Manhattan unanimously reaching a guilty verdict against Abu Hamza al-Masri: “In both word and deed, Abu Hamza supported the cause of violent extremism. His conviction is as just as it was swift. This case ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: Credit Suisse AG pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to aid and assist U.S. taxpayers in filing false income tax returns and other documents with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The guilty plea by the Swiss corporation is the result of a years-long investigation by U.S. law enforcement authorities that has also produced indictments of eight Credit Suisse executives since 2011; two of those individuals have pleaded guilty so far.
By Fed Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced that Credit Suisse will pay a $100 million penalty for unsafe and unsound practices and failure to comply with the federal banking laws governing its activities in the United States. The Federal Reserve also issued a cease and desist order requiring Credit Suisse promptly to address deficiencies in its oversight, management, and controls governing compliance with U.S. laws.
