News from August 2013
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 23, 2013
News Release: U.S. Senator David Vitter, top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today released information about a massive fraud case at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Air and Radiation. The U.S. Department of Justice is pressing criminal charges on an employee of the office for stealing $886,186 from the Agency.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 23, 2013
News Release: Today marks the 1,800th day of the Keystone XL pipeline’s review. The initial application was first submitted to the State Department nearly five years ago on Sept. 19, 2008, and the American people are still waiting for approval of this landmark energy infrastructure project that will deliver jobs and greater energy security to America.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed rulemaking to transition away from the so-called “2 percent rule."
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2013
News Release: Each Faces Mandatory Life in Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - George Baginyan, 33, of Glendale, California, was sentenced to two years in prison for operating a fraudulent clinic and defrauding Medicare. Baginyan was the owner of New Era Health Center Inc. (“New Era"), a purported clinic that was located near the Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2013
News Release: For Robbing and Beating a Man in Northwest Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - An indictment was unsealed today charging nine people in a loan sharking and illegal gambling ring allegedly run out of several Philadelphia businesses. Ylli Gjeli, 48, Fatimir Mustafaraj, 41, George Markakis, 43, Gezim Asllani, 34, Rezart Rahmi Telushi, 40, Eneo Jahaj, 26, Ardit Pone...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael J. DePalma, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2013
News Release: ABILENE, Texas - Jacob Alan Powell, 28, of Abilene, Texas, appeared in federal court today and pleaded guilty, before U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings, to an indictment charging one count of aggravated bank robbery stemming from the July 8, 2013, robbery of a Citibank location in Abilene. He faces...
By State Newswire | Aug 23, 2013
News Release: Dear Mr. President: I know you were as shocked as I when you saw the photos of the latest reported chemical weapons attack by the Assad regime in Syria. The images of bodies of deceased children lined up without any outward sign of injury was profoundly disturbing and appalling to millions of people...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Dave Pharo, Resident Agent in Charge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Office of Law Enforcement (OLE), announced today that Miami, Florida corporation Data Freight Corporation pled guilty today, pursuant to a plea agreement, to a single count Information, charging it with the illegal importation and possession of wildlife, in violation of the Lacey Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Gary Allen Mitchell, age 42, of Salisbury, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to bank robbery. Mitchell has two prior federal bank robbery convictions - one each in Maryland and Delaware.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2013
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Thomas Gard, of Nederland, has entered a plea of guilty to conspiring to transport undocumented aliens, concealing and harboring undocumented aliens and inducing and encouraging their residence in the U.S. for commercial advantage and financial gain, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today issued the following statement welcoming an OSHA proposed rule aimed at protecting workers from exposure to crystalline silica. Exposure kills hundreds of workers and sickens thousands more each year.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Tennessee man was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for two counts of distributing child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Lee Terry (R-NE) next week will travel to Charleston, South Carolina, to highlight the region’s success in our evolving Nation of Builders. Terry’s visit will include a tour of the Boeing manufacturing plant in North Charleston...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2013
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Melody Milton, 38, of Albany, Georgia, was sentenced on Aug. 22, 2013, following her guilty pleas on Aug. 23, 2012, to embezzlement of government property and aggravated identity theft. She received a sentence of seventy (70) months imprisonment and was ordered to pay $110,431 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2013
News Release: James Calvin Wilson Sentenced To 18 Months In Federal Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-A federal indictment unsealed late yesterday charges a 37-year-old Two Harbors man with producing images of child pornography. The indictment, which was filed on Aug. 13, 2013, charges Joel Ray Allard with one count of production of child pornography. The indictment was unsealed following Allard’s initial appearance in federal court.
