http://www.yourstreet.com/news/u-s-attorney-s-office YourStreet collects the latest local news and information from around the web. Find out what's going on in your town. en-us The U.S. Attorney’s Office has filed a response to a former doctor’s motion to have his drug-trafficking conviction and 11-year prison sentence overturned on the grounds that his consular rights were violated. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6749496/u-s-attorney-s-office-responds-to-procter-motion Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:12:08 -0700 David F. Morgan, 51, pleaded guilty Thursday to filing a false claim for disaster assistance in connection with Hurricane Ike, according the the U.S. Attorney's Office in Houston. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6736448/galveston-man-pleads-guilty-to-hurricane-ike-fraud Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:42:08 -0700 David F. Morgan, 51, pleaded guilty Thursday to filing a false claim for disaster assistance in connection with Hurricane Ike, according the the U.S. Attorney's Office in Houston. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6736463/galveston-man-pleads-guilty-to-hurricane-ike-fraud Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:42:08 -0700 The News Hole by Van Smith: Trenell Murphy, who pleaded guilty in July to having 41 kilograms of cocaine that he intended to distribute, today received his sentence from U.S. District Court judge Benson Legg: 20 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6748881/defendant-in-historic-41-kilo-coke-bust-gets-20-years-in-jail Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:00:08 -0700 The News Hole by Van Smith: Back in April when he was arrested, investigators took $23,530 in cash from Wade Coats, the Republican political donor accused in U.S. District Court of being an armed, high-dollar coke-and-dope-dealer in Baltimore. Now the U.S. Attorney's... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6748905/feds-seek-to-keep-gop-donor-s-drug-cash Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:00:08 -0700 A South Carolina man was sentenced to two years in prison on Thursday for using a scheme to dupe mortgage companies and homeowners in Eastern Kentucky, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in London. Financial service worker David C. Thomas, 68, of Greenville,... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6710929/man-sentenced-in-scamming-eastern-kentucky-mortgage-companies Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:59:08 -0700 A former Milledgeville tax preparer has been sentenced to serve 42 months in prison for filing fraudulent tax returns, according to the U.S. Attorney?s Office. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6708469/former-tax-preparer-gets-42-months-of-jail-time Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:38:08 -0700 SARASOTA - Members of the Sarasota NAACP want the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office to look into the arrest of Juan Perez. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6698723/naacp-says-man-s-rights-were-violated-after-being-kicked-by-sarasota-office Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:09:08 -0700 MOBILE, Ala. -- A suspected al-Qaida-linked terrorist from Daphne began to show an anti-American streak as far back as high school, one of his former teachers said Saturday. (IntelCenter photo) This still photo is taken from examiner.com. The Web site identifies the... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6687049/accused-terrorist-omar-hammami-showed-signs-of-religious-extremism-at-daphe Sun, 06 Sep 2009 04:42:08 -0700 MOBILE, Ala. -- A former University of South Alabama student who once expressed horror at the 9/11 terrorist attacks has been charged in a secret indictment with aiding terrorists, according to a Fox News report. A still photo taken from a video posted online that... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6682265/report-former-usa,-daphne-student-charged-in-secret-indictment-with- Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:42:08 -0700 The grant writer indicted by a federal grand jury this week “never acted to defraud anybody,” her attorney told The Desert Sun on Friday. Read The Desert Sun's full investigation Official indictment filed by U.S. Attorney's Office (PDF) http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6682007/grant-writer-is-not-guilty,-lawyer-says Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:10:08 -0700 A Michigan man who landed a plane carrying nearly 300 pounds of marijuana at a Salina airport has been sentenced to five years in federal prison. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Kansas says in a news release that 43-year-old Aaron Hartwell, of Birmingham, Mich.,... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6669944/pilot-of-plane-with-300-lbs-of-pot-sentenced Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:36:08 -0700 Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the appointments of Andrew Y.S. Cheng, James P. Collins, Samuel K. Feng, Jeffrey S. Ross and Monica F. Wiley to judgeships in the San Francisco County Superior Court. Cheng, 42, of Piedmont, has served as an assistant... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6663838/schwarzenegger-appoints-five-to-san-francisco-superior-court-bench Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:34:08 -0700 The U.S. Attorney's Office brought the civil case against Thu Nguyen in 2007, alleging that he visited Vietnam from Oct. 28 to Nov. 7 in 2002, and set up a deal to import counterfeit Louis Vuitton purses and wallets. At the time, he operated nail salons at the Bel... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6662394/counterfeit-wallet-and-purse-scheme-gets-mobile-businessman-90,000-fine Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:08:08 -0700 A Sparks man was sentenced to 30 years in prison and lifetime on supervised release for sexually abusing a minor, the U.S. Attorney?s Office announced. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6659606/man-gets-30-years-in-federal-prison-for-sexual-abuse-of-girl-in-hungry-vall Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:01:08 -0700 Subtitled:  "Oh no he DI-N'T...Oh, yes he DID!" The headline is one of the funniest of the unintentional irony scale , and reads "GOP candidate Chris Christie accuses Gov. Corzine of politicizing U.S. Attorney's Office" Excuse me while I clean up after pissing... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6657009/did-christie-really-go-there- Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:30:08 -0700 A Boca Raton man who tricked investors into his Ponzi scheme to support his lavish lifestyle pleaded guilty Monday on a mail fraud charge, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6655199/boca-raton-man-pleads-guilty-in-ponzi-scheme Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:36:08 -0700 A Boca Raton man who tricked investors into his Ponzi scheme to support his lavish lifestyle pleaded guilty Monday on a mail fraud charge, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6655200/boca-raton-man-pleads-guilty-in-ponzi-scheme Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:36:08 -0700 William Kirschner ran a business in Boca Raton investing people's money and promised them returns between 3 percent and 7 percent. But he had an unusual investment strategy that involved investing less than one out of every nine dollars his clients gave him and... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6654674/boca-raton-man-accused-of-spending-money-people-gave-him-for-investments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:20:08 -0700 A Lamar man has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for his role in an illegal gun-running scheme between South Carolina and New York. Jose Manuel Shannon, 26, recruited and paid eight people from Bishopville and Lamar to buy guns illegally from pawn... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6654444/gun-running-nets-prison-for-lamar-man Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:57:08 -0700