News from April 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: Warren Buffett once said, “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.".
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: Brian Koch struck police dog with barrel of his rifle during arrest; suffers gunshot wound.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - The United States today filed a civil lawsuit alleging that a Cook County pension fund and Cook County willfully violated federal law by failing to allow a U.S. Army Reserve member to lawfully contribute to her pension for the time she was serving in the armed forces, announced Gary S. Shapiro, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois and the Justice Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: A Cuyahoga Falls man was sentenced to three years in prison after previously pleading guilty to possessing five pipe bombs, a silencer, a machine gun and marijuana, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. -- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi has returned over $1 million of forfeited money to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis. The forfeited funds were seized from Roger Joe Ladner, 56, of Kiln, Mississippi...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Late yesterday in federal court, a jury found a 29-year-old man guilty of conspiring to distribute approximately 450 grams of heroin. The jury convicted Jose Nunez-Medina, a Mexican national, of one count of conspiracy to distribute heroin and one count of possession with intent to distribute heroin. He was indicted, along with Sarahi Diaz-Estrada, age 23, also a Mexican national, on Sept. 11, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Patton, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of unlawful possession of firearms by a user of illegal controlled substances, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: Convicted of Stealing Firearms from Rio Rancho Armory in July 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Lucinda Franek was indicted on charges of failure to pay employment taxes for the years 2008 and 2009, and failing to pay income tax for 2006-2008.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: In a ceremony on April 15, 2013, 11 major companies formally established partnerships with the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE). The center is a public-private partnership hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). It works with industry, academic and government experts to find practical solutions for businesses' most pressing cybersecurity needs.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LENWORTH HAYNES, 55, of Stratford, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to one count of tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Richard Elizardo Luna, 52, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon to 15 years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Luna’s sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales and Thomas G. Atteberry, Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement in response to the announcement from the United States Postal Service Board of Governors that it has reversed direction in pursing modified Saturday delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - Six North Texans have been indicted and arrested in connection with a mortgage fraud conspiracy in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today called on Speaker Boehner to return Congress to regular order for the 2014 budget and appropriations process by appointing conferees to work with the Senate on a 2014 joint budget resolution.
By State Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In light of growing concerns about the timetable in which Iran could develop nuclear weapons capability and with the collapse of the P-5+1 talks with Iran, the Foreign Relations Committee today unanimously passed S. Res. 65, co-authored by Chairman Menendez (D-NJ) and Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) reiterating the danger posed by a nuclear Iran to the United States and its allies and reaffirming the United States’ support for Israel’s right to self-defense.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) released a statement following the Committee’s vote to approve the nomination of Sylvia Matthews Burwell to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The Committee reported out her nomination by a voice vote...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact was sentenced on April 15, 2013 by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) released the following statement in response to the introduction of bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform legislation...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking nominations to serve on the United Sorghum Checkoff Program Board.
