News from April 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued a statement in response to the United States Postal Service’s announcement that it will not cut mail delivery to five days per week...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Pittsburgh was sentenced on April 9, 2013, in federal court for violating federal narcotics trafficking laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: The Southeast Coast Saltwater Paddling Trail (SECT) officially launches its website on Friday, April 19, 2013.www.secoastpaddlingtrail.com.The East Coast Paddlesports & Outdoor Festival at James Island County Park in Charleston, SC is the site of the kick-off for the SECT website.The partners of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Date: April 10, 2013. Contact: Public Information Officer. Number: (313) 234-4310. LONDON, Ky. - A Barbourville, Kentucky man was arrested today pursuant to a federal indictment that accuses him of growing a large number of marijuana plants and illegally possessing firearms. Leslie Monroe, 52, was charged...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement after President Obama released his budget proposal for fiscal year 2014...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Marlin Jermaine Beckett and Gia Cooper Beckett have been convicted of tax fraud, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today along with Lucy Cruz, special agent in charge of Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA -- A resident of Reva, Virginia, who was arrested in March on a Federal criminal complaint, has been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury sitting in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Charlottesville.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Newark Police Officer Victor Patela was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, two counts of loan application fraud and bank bribery, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 27-year-old Fridley man was indicted for transporting another to engage in prostitution, pursuant to federal law. Napoleon Long, Jr., was charged with one count of enticing another for interstate travel to engage in prostitution and one count of transportation with intent to engage in prostitution. Federal law prohibits the interstate transportation of individuals for the purpose of prostitution.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Environmental analysis for funding the Elwha River hatchery program has been completed and a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) has been released. The National Park Service (NPS) may provide direct funding and funding recommendations for the Elwha River hatchery programs as part of the Elwha River Restoration Project.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A citizen of Mexico has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal immigration laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., issued the following statement in response to the United States Postal Service announcement that it has reversed its decision to pursue modified Saturday delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Liberty, Mo., husband and wife were charged in federal court today with a nearly $2.8 million embezzlement and check kiting scheme and with filing a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La.- United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Manuel Rivas, 45, of El Salvador, was found guilty on Friday by a federal jury on two counts of resisting his deportation. United States District Judge Dee D. Drell presided over the trial.
By State Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - A bipartisan group of Senators met with Rosa Maria Payá, the daughter of Cuban political reformer Oswaldo Payá, in the U.S. Capitol today, to discuss democratic reforms in Cuba and to reiterate their call for an investigation into Mr. Payá’s troubling death last year in which he, and youth activist Harold Cepero, were killed in a suspicious car accident.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) released the following statement responding to President Obama’s FY 2014 budget proposal...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Eastern District of Virginia - A member of the Internet piracy group “IMAGiNE" was sentenced today to serve 23 months in prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Neil H. MacBride, Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, and Special Agent in Charge John P. Torres of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: A 49-year-old resident of Mount Pleasant, Michigan was sentenced today by United States District Judge Thomas L. Ludington to 28 months in custody followed by two years of supervised release, after having pled guilty on December 7, 2012 to domestic assault by a habitual offender announced U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A well-known cardiologist and the founder, CEO, and sole owner of a pair of large medical services companies in New Jersey and New York admitted today to conspiring in a multimillion-dollar health care fraud scheme that subjected thousands of patients to unnecessary tests and potentially...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Did you know that Fort Stanwix is only 16 out of 84 million acres of the world's most spectacular scenery and historic and cultural treasures called "national parks" in the United States? Do you want to learn more about America's national parks, but don't have the time to tour the country? Join Fort...
