News published on Federal Newswire in April 2013

News from April 2013


Baucus Statement Regarding Problems with the Internet Sales Tax Bill

News Release: This bill will hurt small businesses - not just in Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon, but all across the country.


News Release: Oklahoma City - ANTIGANEE TRIPLET, 39, from Oklahoma City, has been sentenced by United States District Judge Robin J. Cauthron to serve five years’ probation and pay $13,155.51 in restitution for defrauding the Social Security Administration (SSA) to receive disability benefits to which she was not entitled, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.


News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man was convicted in federal court today for two arsons that damaged a building on the Stephens College campus in Columbia and the Ellis Library at the University of Missouri-Columbia.


News Release: Superintendent Barclay Trimble is pleased to announce the Bodie Island Visitor Center bookstore recently received Eastern National's 2012 Customer Service Award.The award, presented annually, recognizes Eastern National staff who received the highest average score in the Eastern National's secret shopper program.The program evaluates the overall store appearance, product presentation, and professionalism of staff.


News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has indicted Nathaniel Clark, 29, Tommy Eugene Clark, a/k/a Boo, 26, Kayla Renee Combs, 23, all of Niagara Falls, and Raysean Clark, a/k/a TP, a/k/a Tadpole, 27, on charges of conspiracy to possess with intent...


New Boat Expands a 45 Year Tradition of Connecting People to the Channel Islands

News Release: Island Packers, the official concessioner for Channel Islands National Park, celebrates 45 years in business with the christening of their new 64-foot catamaran next Tuesday, April 30, 2013, at 5:30 pm in Ventura Harbor.


News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.


News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A former Kansas Air National Guard senior airman who was assigned to McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita is charged with fraudulently collecting more than $50,000 in travel reimbursements by claiming she lived in Arizona while she was working at McConnell, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.


Roger Tristan Johnson Sentenced To 235 Months In Prison For Participating In Conspiracy To Distribute Oxycodone

News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn.- On Apr. 23, 2013, Roger Tristan Johnson, 34, of Johnson City, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 235 months in prison by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge.


News Release: Defendant Filed Over 5,000 False Claims for “Stimulus Money".


News Release: United States Attorney, Richard S. Hartunian, announced that William P. Stiles, 43, of Deposit, Broome County, New York, was sentenced today in United States District Court to twenty four weekends of incarceration, and five years supervised release for the felony crimes of wire fraud and tax evasion.


Nestor Alberto Duran-esquivel Sentenced  For Illegal Reentry

News Release: NESTOR ALBERTO DURAN-ESQUIVEL, age 39, a citizen of El Salvador was sentenced today in federal court by U. S. District Judge Helen G. Berrigan, announced U.S. Attorney Dana Boente. DURAN was sentenced to 24 months imprisonment. In addition to the term of imprisonment, Judge Berrigan ordered that DURAN...


Registered Sex Offender Charged With Distributing Images Of Child Sexual Abuse From New Jersey Law Office Computer

News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A registered sex offender employed at a law office in Paterson, N.J., will appear in court today following his arrest at the office late yesterday after law enforcement officers discovered alleged child pornography on his work computer, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.


Michelle Steinfeldt Sentenced In U.S. District Court

News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on April 24, 2012, before U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, MICHELLE STEINFELDT, a 34-year-old resident of Billings, appeared for sentencing. STEINFELDT was sentenced to a term of.


News Release: ROCKFORD - A former Freeport, Ill. man was convicted late yesterday of witness retaliation by a federal jury in U.S. District Court in Rockford following a two-day jury trial. DAMON RUCKER, 36, was found guilty of causing bodily injury to a witness on Dec. 20, 2012, with intent to retaliate against the witness for testifying against Rucker in federal court.


Final Defendant Convicted In Multi-Million Dollar Mortgage Fraud Scheme

News Release: HOUSTON - Houston businessman Tony David Maldonado, 33, of Houston, has pleaded guilty in relation to a scheme to defraud residential mortgage lenders of more than $22 million in loans, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today along with FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen L. Morris and...


News Release: Nine Defendants Operated a Document Mill in the 200 Block of South Broadway in Baltimore and Sold Thousands of Fraudulent Government Identification Documents.


News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Winnebago, Nebraska man has been indicted by a federal grand jury.


Hatch Introduces Amendment to Improve Marketplace Fairness Act

News Release: WASHINGTON - Concerned with its impact on small businesses and consumers, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today introduced an amendment to S. 743, the Marketplace Fairness Act, that includes seven different components to strengthen and improve the underlying bill, including provisions that would sunset the legislation after five years, expand the exemption for small sellers, and strike the preemption provision.


News Release: San Antonio - A major opportunity stands before the City of San Antonio and Bexar County. In 2015, the Missions of San Antonio will be considered for a World Heritage designation by the United Nations. By gaining World Heritage status would propel the Missions of San Antonio to the same level of world...