News published on Federal Newswire in February 2011

News from February 2011


Southern Illinois Woman Pleads Guilty To Possession Of A Listed Chemical Knowing It Would Be Used To Manufacture A Controlled Substance

News Release: BENTON, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that on Jan. 26, 2011, BRANDIE WENZEL, age 39, of 2220 Grand Avenue, Eldorado, Illinois, plead guilty in United States District Court at Benton, IL, to a one count indictment charging her with...


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News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 3, 2011 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after Judge Martin Feldman yesterday found the Department of the Interior in contempt of court for continuing their moratorium on offshore drilling in the Gulf Coast.


Trenton Man Sentenced To 188 Months In Prison For Heroin Distribution Conspiracy

News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - John G. McCabe, Jr., Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a leader of a heroin distribution organization operating in Trenton, N.J., was sentenced today to 188 months in federal prison.


Release: Washington, DC, Feb. 2, 2011 - USDA Under Secretary Kevin Concannon today joined the District of Columbia State Superintendent of Education Hosanna Mahaley in a special ceremony to present Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School a USDA HealthierUS School Challenge Gold Award of Distinction. This is the first Gold Award of Distinction in Washington, D.C. and the highest honor in the Challenge.


Markey Report: Big Five Oil Companies Approach $1 Trillion in Profits for the Decade, Yet Still Rely on 100 Year-Old Subsidies to Sell $100 Oil

News Release: WASHINGTON - Nearly $1 trillion - that’s the total profit earned by the top five multi-national oil companies over the first decade of the new millennium. $36.5 billion - that’s the total in tax subsidies the American public will provide to the oil industry over the next decade. $53 billion - that’s...


Tangipahoa Man Sentenced To Over 15 Years In Federal Prison For Violating Federal Drug Law

News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA. - EDWARD DAVIS -, age 30, a resident of Tangipahoa Parish, was sentenced today in federal court by U. S. District Judge Stanwood Duval to over 15 (185 months) imprisonment for conspiracy to distribute and distribution of crack cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Jim Letten. In addition, ...


News Release: WASHINGTON – An immigration judge in Detroit has ordered John (Ivan) Kalymon of Troy, Mich., removed from the United States because of his participation in Nazi-sponsored acts of persecution while serving during World War II as an armed member of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (UAP) in Nazi-occupied L’viv, Ukraine, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division.


News Release: WASHINGTON – Gregory Pfizenmayer of Foley, Ala., has pleaded guilty before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Herman J. Weber in Cincinnati to one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud in connection with a drug diversion scheme in which he was involved, the Justice Department announced today.


News Release: WASHINGTON – An employee of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, was found guilty today by a jury in Alexandria, Va., of stealing nearly $250,000 intended for the payment of shipping and customs services for the embassy, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride for the Eastern District of Virginia.


News Release: WASHINGTON – A Fremont, Calif., man pleaded guilty today to possessing child pornography and attempting to extort additional child pornography images of an underage girl whom he harassed via the social networking website Facebook, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag for the Northern District of California.


News Release: Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Remarks at U.S.-China Commercial Relations Event, New York City, New York Thank you, Art, for that introduction and to the team at Bloomberg for inviting me here today.


The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Feb. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Feb. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Feb. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Feb. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Feb. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Feb. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Feb. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.