News from April 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement renewing his call on House Speaker John Boehner to retract a highly partisan Republican staff report issued earlier this week that falsely suggested former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton personally signed an April 2012 cable regarding security in Benghazi and lied about it under oath...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Marcia K. Cypen, Executive Director, Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc. (LSGMI), announced the United States’ successful prosecution of several civil False Claims Act cases brought under the qui tam provisions of the...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2013
News Release: Carlsbad Caverns National Park Requests Your Input on Pipeline Project.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2013
News Release: MANHATTAN - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that Jose Evaristo Linares Castillo was extradited from Colombia on charges that he...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2013
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on April 26, 2013, Robert Schmaltz, 36, Bismarck, N.D., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to a charge of receipt of materials involving the sexual exploitation of minors.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2013
News Release: Cohen Will Also Pay A $2.7 Million Judgment And Be Permanently Barred From Real Estate Transactions Involving Federally Insured Loans As Part Of Civil Settlement.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2013
News Release: The Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GBLCC) is providing more than $198,000 from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to fund five projects within the Great Basin. The projects were selected from 16 proposals based on their ability to support the GBLCC's mission of enhancing understanding...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that XING LIN was convicted yesterday in Manhattan federal court of murdering two individuals in a Queens nightclub in 2004, engaging in racketeering from 1996 through 2010, and extortion. The jury found...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2013
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Tonta J. Octaveage 34, and his brother Kavis Octave,age 31,both residents of Vacherie, Louisiana, were sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Lance M. Africk. Tonta Octave was sentenced to 120 months in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons, followed by a term of 8 years supervised release. Kavis Octave was sentenced to 90 months in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons and a term of four years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that an operator of an illegal alien employment business in Scranton was sentenced Thursday in federal court before Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Stang, Oklahoma man charged with Failure to Pay Legal Child Support was sentenced on April 23, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma -- Bokchito Mail Center, S&T Management, Inc., The Cleaning Authority, Inc. and The Cleaning Authority, LLC (collectively "Bokchito Mail Center and its affiliates"), have agreed to pay $500,000 to the United States to settle allegations that it obtained postage discounts to which is was not entitled, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2013
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today applauded the Senate’s confirmation of William Schultz to be general counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Christopher Meade to be general counsel of the Department of the Treasury. During a hearing last...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2013
News Release: As part of the Administration's on-going commitment to improving forest health in the Pacific Northwest, recovering the northern spotted owl, and supporting sustainable economic opportunities for local communities, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe, Bureau of Land Management Principal...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Gloria Vigil, 63, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced earlier today to 41 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute oxycodone outside the scope and usual course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose. Vigil’s sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales and Joseph M. Arabit, Special Agent in Charge of the El Paso Field Division of the DEA.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2013
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wyoming Resource Advisory Council will meet Tuesday, May 21, Wednesday, May 22, and Thursday, May 23, at the Best Western Inn at Lander, 260 Grandview Drive, Lander, Wyo., in the Peaks Conference Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2013
News Release: FARGO - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on April, 23, 2013, Kelly Touche of Tokio, N.D., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to a charge of conspiracy to commit bank fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2013
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Garden Park Fossil Area has received an expansion to its National Natural Landmark boundary. The area, 10 miles north of Cañon City, is internationally renowned for its late Jurassic-period fossils.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., April 26, 2013 - Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 527, the “Responsible Helium Administration and Stewardship Act" by a vote of 394- 1. This bipartisan legislation, introduced by House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (R-WA), Ranking Member Ed Markey...
