News published on Federal Newswire in December 2013

News from December 2013


The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Dec. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Dec. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Derek Kucinski, 27, formerly of Cape Neddick, Maine, was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to serve a minimum mandatory 22 years in federal prison following his conviction for armed bank robbery, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.


News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Lawrence, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, on charges of wire fraud and filing false income tax returns, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.


Owners Of St. Charles Real Estate Company Sentenced For Tax Fraud

News Release: St. Louis, MO - JOHN and ANTHONY CALANDRELLA were sentenced today for their failure to file income tax returns for three years on the income from their company, Golden Delta Enterprises. John was sentenced to 18 months in prison; Anthony was sentenced to 6 months in prison.


Rapper Gucci Mane Arraigned On Federal Gun Charges

News Release: ATLANTA - Radric Davis, an Atlanta-based rap artist who performs under the name Gucci Mane, has been charged in federal court with two separate counts of possessing a firearm while being a felon.


News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that XANG NAKHOUNE, 38, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in...


News Release: Little Rock - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas announced that John B. Stacks, owner of Mountain Pure Water, was indicted today by a Federal Grand Jury on three counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of submitting a false claim to the Small Business Administration (SBA), and four counts of making a false statement.


News Release: United States Attorney ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), announced today that a federal jury in the District of Guam returned a verdict finding defendants William M. Perez and Jennie Wen Chin Pau guilty, as follows.


Former Philadelphia Police Officer Convicted Of Corruption

News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A federal jury, yesterday, found 52-year old Rafael Cordero, a 23-year veteran of the Philadelphia Police force, guilty of interfering with the federal drug investigation of the Christian Serrano/Edwin Medina Drug Trafficking ("DTOs"). Cordero provided sensitive law enforcement information...


News Release: ATLANTA - Anita R. Ford, a/k/a Anita R. Dixon has pleaded guilty today for aiding or assisting in the presentation and filing of false personal income tax returns with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.


Engel Statement on Becoming Chair of the International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democratic Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement regarding his appointment as the Chairman of the World Jewish Congress’ International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians (ICJP).


News Release: U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) today issued the following joint statement after expanding oversight of the Obama administration’s unilateral attempts to address union concerns with the health care law...


Michigan Aquarium Store Operators Plead Guilty To Illegal Trafficking Of Marine Life

News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Otha Easley, Acting Special Agent in Charge, NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement, and Edward Grace, Deputy Assistant Director, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Office of Law Enforcement, announced that Richard Perrin, 80...


NIST Readies Tests for DARPA Robotics Challenge in December

News Release: 'Twill be nearly the night before Christmas, but at Florida's Homestead-Miami Speedway many a robotic creature will be stirring, while visions of a $2 million prize and international prestige dance in the heads of the machines' creators.


Florida Marine Life Dealers Sentenced For Illegal Wildlife Trafficking

News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Otha Easley, Acting Special Agent in Charge, NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement, and Edward Grace, Deputy Assistant Director U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Office of Law Enforcement, announce that Eric Pedersen, 51...


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. and BROOKLYN, NEW YORK - The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York today announced that they have tentatively agreed to a settlement with the Suffolk County Police Department which calls for SCPD to...


News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Tailiang Li was sentenced today to twelve months in prison for unlawfully structuring cash transactions, United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez announced.


Hatch on Treasury IG Report on ObamaCare Tax Credit Fraud

News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement today after the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) issued a report that found that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has an inadequate system in place for preventing fraudulent Affordable Care Act premium subsidy payments from occurring and that people’s personal information would be at risk...


News Release: GUNNISON, Colo. - On Saturday, Nov. 30, the Bureau of Land Management’s Gunnison Field Office was robbed, vandalized and subsequently set on fire. Numerous vehicles were also vandalized and one vehicle was stolen from the facility.