News from April 2013
By State Newswire | Apr 19, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2013
News Release: Defendants Found Guilty Of Agreeing To Sell Surface-To-Air Missiles And Other Lethal Weapons To Terrorists.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2013
News Release: MOBILE, AL-- United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown announced today that Trecia Howard McGee, a Mobile, Alabama, resident, entered a guilty plea to wire fraud in connection with a fraudulent BP oil claim she filed. She also admitted assisting others in filing false claims and receiving proceeds from those false claims. McGee admitted her involvement with false claims totaling $400,000.00.

By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2013
News Release: Outer Banks Group Superintendent Barclay Trimble invites children throughout the Outer Banks to take part in National Junior Ranger Day at their local national park sites on Saturday, April 20. "Becoming a Junior Ranger is a fun way for children to explore and learn more about the National Parks and how they can help protect these important sites," stated Trimble.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2013
News Release: South Bend, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.

By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2013
News Release: Big Bend National Park (BBNP) proposes to construct a new paleontological and geological exhibit near the current fossil bone exhibit site along Highway 385 (Park Route 11), eight miles north of the Panther Junction Visitor Center. The purpose of the proposed project is to develop a fossil exhibit that...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces the unsealing of indictments charging Anthony Maurice McSwain (28, Pinellas County) and Jarvis Antwan Dorsey (22, Pinellas County) with weapons and drugs offenses. If convicted on all counts, each faces a maximum penalty of 30 years...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2013
News Release: Defendant Operated “Instant Tax Services" in Dallas.

By Commerce Newswire | Apr 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., April 19, 2013 - Yesterday, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs held an oversight hearing examining the spending priorities outlined in the President’s FY2014 budget requests for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the Office of Insular Affairs (OIA), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2013
News Release: JOSE GONZALEZ-GRANA, age 35, a citizen of Mexico, was charged in a two-count indictment by a Federal Grand Jury today with making a false statement claiming United States citizenship and illegal use of a Social Security Number, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2013
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) and the Howard County Prosecutor’s Office announced today felony charges against the owners and employees of the Wagoner Medical Center. The Wagoner Medical Center has offices in Burlington and Kokomo, Indiana. The charges arise out of an intensive investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2013
News Release: David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that VASHAWN RAY, 25, of Hartford, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 70 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 19, 2013
News Release: “This bill would defund an Obamacare political slush fund controlled by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and instead use the money to give the sickest Americans health insurance. ATR is supportive of this legislation… H.R. 1549 would take four years of funding from Obamacare’s “Prevention and Public Health...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2013
News Release: Little Rock - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced today that, in a hearing held before United States District Judge D. Price Marshall, Jr., Harold Allen Smith, 47, of Greenbriar, pled guilty to one count of transferring a false birth certificate via the United States mail. The charges involve activities by Smith in the Spring of 2012 when he was a candidate in the Republican primary for Sheriff of Faulkner County.

By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2013
News Release: Celebrate National Junior Ranger Day 2013 at your National Park!.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2013
News Release: ALICIA WELLS, age 29, of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier to mail fraud relating to a fraudulent application she made to the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) for financial assistance in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2013
News Release: Berlin, Maryland - Visitors to the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia will soon be able to enjoy easy access to Assateague beaches. The Federal Highways Administration has awarded the contract for repair of parking lots damaged due to Hurricane Sandy. The contract was awarded to Heard...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2013
News Release: David James Csanyi, 46, of Reading, PA, was charged today by Indictment with the transportation and receipt of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Essex County, N.J., men today admitted their roles in the armed robbery of the Golden Palace jewelry store in Orange, N.J., U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - This afternoon, a federal jury sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., convicted Maria Leticia Gutierrez de Lopez, 62, and Jesus Cabral Ramirez, 44, for conspiring to transport illegal aliens after a three-day trial. Cabral Ramirez also was convicted of transporting an illegal alien. The jury’s verdict...