News from April 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted a former ATM service technician for stealing $47,000 from ATMs around the Birmingham metropolitan area, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and U.S. Secret Service Acting Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey L. Anderson.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: Fresno, California -- José Hernàndez-Velàzquez, de 55 años, residente de Van Nuys y dueño de una propiedad de alquiler en Delano, fue sentenciado hoy a 60 años de prisión por el Juez de Distrito de los Estados Unidos Lawrence J. O’Neill, anunció Benjamin B. Wagner Fiscal de los Estados Unidos. El 12 de diciembre de 2012, un jurado federal encontró a Hernàndez-Velàzquez culpable de 4 cargos separados de producir pornografía infantil.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: Mr. President, on Monday, before the cloture vote on the motion to proceed to the Marketplace Fairness Act, I came to the floor to discuss the need to reinstate the committee process here in the Senate.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: PIKEVILLE, KY - A resident of London, England traveled to Kentucky intending to engage in sex acts with a minor who lived in eastern Kentucky according to a plea agreement filed in federal court.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) and House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) today, in a letter to Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, requested documents related to Department discussions about budget flexibilities and alternative sequestration cuts that would have avoided widespread flight delays.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: AIRIE is now accepting applications for month-long residencies in Everglades National Park from visual and performing artists, writers, and composers.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Kathleen D. McGrade, age 64, and Brian C. Collinsworth, age 46, both of Fredericksburg, Va., were indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges stemming from an alleged secret scheme to steer more than $60 million in State Department contracts to a company they controlled.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: Christopher Finazzo, the former Executive Vice President and Chief Merchandising Officer of Aéropostale, Inc., a national mall-based specialty clothing retailer headquartered in Manhattan, was convicted today by a federal jury in Brooklyn on all sixteen counts for defrauding Aéropostale and receiving...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: Darwin Haar, 45, of Glenrock, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on April 25, 2013, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distributing 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. Haar was arrested in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He received 100 months of imprisonment...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces the unsealing of an eight count indictment charging Desmond Holden, Kinjonah Coston, and Octavis Jones with conspiracy to prepare fraudulent tax returns, theft of public money, and aggravated identity theft. If convicted, each faces...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Sexual Abuse of a Minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James T. Hayes, Jr., Special Agent-in-Charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (“ICE") Homeland Security Investigations in New York (“HSI"), announced today the unsealing of an Indictment charging RICHARD...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on April 25, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, ELROY JAY WEASELBEAR, SR., a 39-year-old resident of Lame Deer and an enrolled member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, appeared for sentencing. WEASELBEAR was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Wilkinsburg, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 94 months in prison and five years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Redfield, South Dakota woman convicted of Theft of Government Funds and Misuse of Benefits by a Representative Payee was sentenced on April 23, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By State Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This morning, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has convened a hearing to discuss U.S. foreign assistance priorities and strategy in accordance with the FY 2014 budget request.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CID), Miami Field Office, and Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: Dear Secretary Sebelius: In a letter to the Division of Insurance under the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulations in Massachusetts the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) provided the state a transition period of three years to eliminate the use of certain rating...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today applauded committee member Gregg Harper’s (R-MS) work to support pediatric health care. Rep. Harper today formally introduced the Kids First Research Act, along with Tom Cole (R-OK), in recognition of Autism Awareness Month.
