News from August 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Peabody man was arrested today for attempting to manufacture methamphetamine in a hotel room.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: Dear Mr. Inspector General: It has been two weeks since you testified before our Committee on July 18, 2013, and we are writing to inquire about the status of your objection to the IRS providing information to the Committee relating to the scrutiny of progressive applicants for tax exempt status. When...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) called on the mental health care community today to share input on how to improve the mental health system in the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury has convicted Makushamari Gozo, age 40, a native of Zimbabwe residing in Baltimore, Maryland, on 23 counts that he filed claims for more than $23 million in fraudulent alternative fuel tax credits and refunds and personal tax refunds, as well as that he engaged in a scheme to fraudulently obtain more than $3 million in loans from credit unions. The verdict was returned late on July 31, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: A Guatemalan man who illegally reentered the United States and unlawfully possessed ammunition was sentenced today to more than three years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: On July 31, 2013, Terrell A. Rey, a twenty-eight year old Washington Park, IL, man pled guilty in United States Federal District Court, in East St. Louis, IL, to unlawful possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Hartford returned an indictment today charging SAMUEL VASQUEZ, 26, formerly of Willimantic, with escape from the custody of the Attorney General.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations Chairman John Mica, R-Fla., will hold a hearing Friday August 2nd at 9 a.m. in Rayburn 2247 to examine the rapid growth of IRS ID theft tax fraud-which costs taxpayers billions of dollars per year.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - DARRELL PECK was sentenced to ten years in prison for his possession of child pornography in February 2010 in Franklin County.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) slammed the Obama Administration for undermining the Committee’s bipartisan investigation into the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) targeting of conservative groups who filed for tax exempt status. Both the President and Secretary of Treasury in separate statements have charged Congress with creating “phony scandals.".
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: Wyoming man admits possessing child pornography, sentenced to 4 ½ years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: Fort Pulaski National Monument Celebrates 97th Birthday of the National Park Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: - Formerly convicted of two counts of 1st degree manslaughter.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved H.R. 1582, the Energy Consumers Relief Act, by a vote 232 to 181. The legislation, authored by Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), will put greater interagency checks and balances on the EPA and prevent costly regulations that threaten to destroy...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Michael Hoffman, 59, of Ada, Michigan, pleaded guilty to willfully filing a false corporate tax return, U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr., announced today. Hoffman faces a sentence of three years imprisonment; a one year period of supervised release; a fine of $250,000; costs...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Lee Terry (R-NE) and Ranking Member Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) today launched a bipartisan Privacy Working Group to examine online privacy concerns and issues. The goal is to examine these complex issues with a balanced approach that recognizes the need to protect personal information online in a manner that preserves growth and innovation.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), ranking Republican on the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, today issued the following statement regarding Senate conference committee members appointed to negotiate an agreement on a 2013 farm bill with the House of Representatives...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Johncarlos Ortiz, 39, a non-native resident of Pojoaque Pueblo, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to a felony information charging him with receipt of a visual depiction of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct charges under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today held a hearing with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Marilyn Tavenner to secure answers regarding the status of the health care law’s implementation. Committee members relayed the many concerns they have heard...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - 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, Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Michael J. De...
