News from April 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - - Gabriel Uribe-Bautista pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco on April 23, 2013 to distribution of cocaine and 500 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing methamphetamine, Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2013
News Release: SILT, Colo. - Today the Bureau of Land Management released a preliminary environmental assessment for public comment on the proposed Sutey Ranch land exchange in Eagle, Garfield and Pitkin counties.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2013
News Release: The Stevens current meter measures the direction, speed, and volume of ocean currents in the harbor’s navigation channels, north of the Narrows between Brooklyn and Staten Island. Its data will be used in NOAA’s Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System (PORTS®) system, which delivers real-time environmental...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 29, 2013
News Release: A defect in a gene called dystrophin is the cause of a newly discovered stress syndrome in pigs, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have found.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are continuing their examination into the Department of Energy’s loan guarantee program, seeking information about the program’s ability to create the jobs promised by the Obama administration. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - The senior vice president of operations of an independent wholesale food distributor admitted today to evading taxes on income he received from third parties, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2013
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on April 29, 2013, Lionel R. Jewett, 21, of Fort Yates, N.D., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on two counts of burglary, a count of assault with intent to commit murder, and two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon. Jewett pleaded guilty to the charges on Aug. 20, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Verle Janis a/k/a Verl Janis, age 31, of McLaughlin, South Dakota appeared before U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann on April 23, 2013 and pled guilty to a Superseding Information that charged him with Assaulting, Resisting and Impeding a Federal Officer. The maximum penalty upon conviction is 8 years' imprisonment, a $250,000 fine or both, and a period of supervised release of 3 years.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 29, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today responded to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) watershed assessment on the implications of a hypothetical copper mining project similar to the Pebble Mine project in Bristol Bay, Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2013
News Release: POCATELLO - Kendall Perry, 22, of Blackfoot, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 30 months in prison for involuntary manslaughter, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Perry to serve three years of supervised release...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury in Buffalo has returned a 66-count indictment charging Clifton Jackson, 44, of Buffalo, N.Y., with conspiracy to unlawfully use Social Security numbers, conspiracy and the filing of false tax returns in 2011, and aggravated identity theft. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2013
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.-The Bureau of Land Management is seeking nominations to fill eight vacancies on its Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area Advisory Council.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2013
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Central Coast man pleaded guilty this afternoon in a wide-ranging fraud scheme that caused more than $47 million in losses to several victims, including his in-laws, who were long-established and well-respected farmers in San Luis Obispo County.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Justin Kenneth, 20, a member and resident of the Navajo Nation, pleaded guilty last Thursday to an aggravated sexual abuse charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Under the terms of the plea agreement, Kenneth will be sentenced to a federal prison term of eight to ten years followed by a term of supervised release of five years to life to be determined by the court. Kenneth also will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Attorney General Eric Holder has appointed Idaho’s U.S. Attorney, Wendy J. Olson, to the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee (AGAC), the highest ranking committee within the Department of Justice. The Department announced the appointment of Olson and five other U.S. Attorneys to serve new two-year terms earlier today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A member of a Dodge City street gang targeted in a federal racketeering case has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for attempted murder, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2013
News Release: BARSTOW, CALIF. - Effective May 8, 2013, Kelso Depot Visitor Center in Mojave National Preserve will be closed on Wednesdays and Thursdays.The Visitor Center will remain open Fridays through Tuesdays from 9 am to 5 pm. Mojave National Preserve's Headquarters Information Center at 2701 Barstow Road, Barstow, California, is open Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm. to provide information and assist with trip planning.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2013
News Release: FARGO - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on April 29, 2013, Ashley Lenoir of Devils Lake, N.D., was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson on a charge of distribution of a controlled substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2013
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. -Jayant Khare, 50, of Powhatan, Va., pleaded guilty today to conspiring to structure more than $10,000,000 in cash transactions for the purpose of preventing banking institutions from reporting those transactions to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
