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A Federal Way, Washington man who e-mailed threats against President Barack Obama appeared in U.S. District Court in Seattle today, charged by criminal complaint with making a threat against the president and assault of a federal agent or employee. Anton Calouri, 31, remains in custody at the Federal Detention Center at Sea-Tac, Washington. A detention hearing has been scheduled for Monday August 27, 2012, at 2:00 p.m.

Iraqi citizen Mohanad Shareef Hammadi pleaded guilty to federal terrorism charges today in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky before Senior Judge Thomas B. Russell, announced Lisa Monaco, Assistant Attorney General for National Security; David J. Hale, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky; and Perrye K. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Louisville Division.

In response ruling by Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, which excluded as untested and unreliable key portions of the proposed testimony of New York City’s key witness in a class-action lawsuit challenging the NYPD’s stop and frisk practices, Floyd et al. v. City of New York, et al., Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vincent Warren issued the following statement:

A jury convicted Arvind Ahuja yesterday on federal tax charges stemming from his failure to disclose offshore bank accounts maintained in India and the Bailiwick of Jersey, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced.

Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a former retail operations officer for the United Prairie Bank in Jackson, Minnesota, was sentenced to 12 months and one day in federal prison for embezzling between $30,000 and $120,000 from customer accounts for her personal use.

Two former senior executives of Austin, Texas-based ArthroCare Corp., a publicly traded medical device company, were arrested this morning in Morristown, New Jersey and Orange County, California for their alleged roles in a scheme to defraud the company’s shareholders and members of the investing public by falsely inflating ArthroCare’s earnings by tens of millions of dollars, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Robert Pitman for the Western District of Texas. The department said that the loss to the company’s shareholders and the investing public was more than $400 million.

Randy Arlan Mainwaring, 41, former manager of the Thurston Branch of Key Bank in Springfield, Oregon, was sentenced to serve 30 months in federal prison yesterday by U.S. District Judge Michael R. Hogan for identity theft and bank fraud. He pled guilty to both offenses on May 7, 2012

The owner of multiple durable medical equipment (DME) companies that operated in Louisiana was sentenced today to serve 180 months in prison for his role in multiple Medicare fraud schemes involving fraudulent claims and illegal kickback payments for unnecessary DME, announced the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the FBI and the Louisiana State Attorney General’s Office.

The former mayor for the village of Alorton was sentenced to 43 months in federal prison, $1,200 in fines, three years’ supervised release, and ordered to reimburse the Federal Bureau of Investigation $1,260 for investigative expenses, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.

United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Melanie Sparks, age 40, of Gaffney, South Carolina, pled guilty today in federal court in Anderson, South Carolina, to stealing funds in excess of $60,000, from a child support fund operated by Cherokee County, South Carolina.