News from August 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., M.D. (R-LA) called on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Acting Commissioner Daniel Werfel to immediately cease the IRS’s apparent continued practice of targeting Tea Party applications based on name alone.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Late yesterday in federal court, a 47-year-old Le Center man was sentenced for receiving several videos containing child pornography. On Aug. 28, 2013, United States District Judge David S. Doty sentenced Harold Duane Davenport to 60 months in prison on one count of receipt of child pornography. Davenport was indicted on November 5, 2012, and pleaded guilty on March 20, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Pricilio Garcia-Jimenez, 40, a Mexican national who resided in Farmington, N.M., entered a guilty plea late yesterday afternoon to methamphetamine trafficking charges. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Garcia-Jimenez will be sentenced to 108 months in federal prison. Garcia-Jimenez, who was in the United States without authorization at the time of his arrest, will be deported after he completes his prison sentence.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement after the Obama Administration issued guidance on the participation of Members of Congress and Congressional staff in the Federal health exchanges created under the President’s health law.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Paul Harvilicz, 62, of Copperas Cove, Texas, pleaded guilty today, before U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings, to a superseding indictment charging one count of attempted transfer of obscene material to a minor. Judge Cummings ordered a presentence investigation report with a sentencing...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - James Erwin, 39, of Memphis, TN, an officer with the Memphis Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: MARSHALL, Texas - A 29-year-old Sinaloa, Mexico man currently residing in Marshall, Texas, has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Ricky McCoy, brother of Regina R. Evans, former police chief for Country Club Hills., Ill., appeared in federal court in Springfield today to enter pleas of guilty to one count each of money laundering and obstruction of justice in the federal investigation of a grant fraud scheme involving his sister. McCoy appeared this afternoon before U.S. District Judge Sue E. Myerscough in Springfield. Sentencing for McCoy is scheduled on Jan. 4, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Former long-time Harris County Precinct One Constable Jack Abercia has been convicted on 11 counts of exceeding authorized computer access, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today along with FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen L. Morris. Also entering guilty pleas today were Weldon Kenneth Wiener, his former chief lieutenant, and Michael Butler, his former office chief. Weiner and Butler were convicted on one count of conspiracy.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), and Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today released the first paper in...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: MIAMI - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in (SAC), Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce the extradition of...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on two produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: FREE LOANER LIFEJACKETS AVAILABLE AT LAKE MEAD, MOHAVE BEACHES.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in New Haven has found TYRON HAMMOND, 31, of New Haven, guilty of possession of ammunition by a previously convicted felon. The trial before U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall began on August 26 and the jury returned the verdict yesterday afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Timber Lake, 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 | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: ATLANTA - Dwayne Penn, a Clayton County Police Officer assigned to the U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task force, and Adrian Demetric Austin have been arrested on corruption, drug trafficking, and firearm charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael J. DePalma, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigations (IRS-CI), announce that defendant Efrain Felipe, 41, of Hallandale Beach, was sentenced today before U.S. District...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement in reaction to the July jobs report from the U.S. Department of Labor. A net total of 162,000 jobs were created and the unemployment rate for July decreased to 7.4 percent.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARK FULLER, 50, of New Haven, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 90 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2013
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Marco Tulio Sanabria-Caceres, 25, of Honduras, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Patricia Minaldi to eight months in prison for reentering the United States after being deported.
