News from December 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Middle District of North Carolina. Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013. Lengthy prison term ordered. GREENSBORO, N.C. - A Winston-Salem man was sentenced to 157 months in prison for his role as the leader of a smuggling ring funneling firearms and ammunition to Mexico...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: GREENBELT -, Md. - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Jose Joaquin Morales, age 37, of Baltimore, Maryland, to life in prison for using a cell phone to arrange the murder-for-hire of Robert Long, who was a cooperating witness in a case pending against Morales in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. Morales is currently serving two consecutive 262 month sentences for drug convictions in Maryland and Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announce that defendant Carlos Rodriguez, 40, of Miami Lakes, pled guilty yesterday to one count of structuring financial...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced today that United States District Judge Rudolf Randa sentenced Randy Martinez a.k.a Robin Lee Martinez, (age:30) of Sheboygan to ten years and four months in prison for his role in the Balderas Organization drug trafficking activities involving kilos of cocaine and marijuana transported from Texas to Wisconsin. Martinez, who pled guilty to these charges, was arrested on May 29, 2012 and detained in federal custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A 35-year-old New Boston, Texas woman has pleaded guilty to a biological weapons charge in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales and Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security. John Carlin.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders, along with every Republican member of the Communications and Technology Subcommittee, today wrote to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler urging him to suspend the Federal Communications Commission’s efforts to conduct a field study that could lead to...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders, along with every Republican member of the Communications and Technology Subcommittee, today wrote to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler urging him to suspend the Federal Communications Commission’s efforts to conduct a field study that could lead to...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: Defendant Stated The Carbon Fiber Was Intended For A “Jet Fighter Plane".
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: Every week seems to bring news of yet another website hacked, user accounts compromised, or personal data stolen or misused. Just recently, many Facebook users were required to change their passwords because of hacks at Adobe, a completely different company. Why? Because hackers know that users frequently...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: SAN DIEGO - This morning, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) San Diego Field Division's Narcotics Task (NTF) along with the San Diego County Sheriff's Department and Health Advocates Rejecting Marijuana, (HARM) announce the total amount of illegal marijuana plants seized in San Diego County in 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: Colombian Attorney Paid Bribes To Colombian Official To Steal Confidential U.S. Law Enforcement Information, Then Sold Information To Narcotics Trafficker.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: Changes will strengthen rural housing markets; encourage new construction WASHINGTON, Dec. 9, 2013 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced a series of sweeping changes to a popular loan program for rural homebuyers. The changes are part of an extensive overhaul that will strengthen rural housing markets, increase the availability of rural home loans and spur the construction of new homes in rural areas.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, Dec. 9, 2013 – As part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's commitment to encourage the next generation of scientists, USDA Chief Scientist and Undersecretary for Research, Education, and Economics Catherine Woteki will speak at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt, Md., on December 9.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that Northrop Grumman Corp. has paid the United States $11.4 million to settle a government claim for penalties provided under the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and False Claims Act allegations stemming from its failure to abide by a 2002 settlement agreement ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: The government has intervened in a lawsuit against IPC The Hospitalist Co. Inc., and its subsidiaries (IPC), alleging that IPC submitted false claims to federal health care programs, the Justice Department announced today. IPC, based in North Hollywood, Calif., is one of the largest providers of hospitalist ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: Thomas Windell Smith, 24, of Dothan, Ala., turned himself in and pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday, Dec. 6, 2013, to one count of conspiring to violate housing rights, the Justice Department announced today. The information charging Smith was unsealed today. The charge relates to his participation ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: The Attorney General’s Advisory Committee of the Task Force on American Indian/Alaska Native Children Exposed to Violence held its first public hearing today in Bismarck, N.D., convening tribal researchers, advocates and local community members to discuss domestic violence and child physical and sexual ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2013
News Release: Stanley J. Wardle, 65, of Spanish Fork, Utah, pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City to nine counts of filing false claims for income tax refunds, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Wardle, who was indicted on Feb. 15, 2012, is scheduled to be sentenced before U.S. District Judge Dee Benson on Feb. 27, 2014.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 9, 2013
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Dec. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
