News from December 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
News Release: The Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) has awarded a total of $3.75 million in Make it in America grants to 10 MEP centers in nine states. The 3-year grant awards are in addition to the recently announced $20.5 million in Make it in America funding from the Department of Commerce's Economic...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
News Release: PHOENIX - On Dec. 3, 2013, Lawrence Antonio Jackson, 22, a member of the Gila River Indian Community from Sacaton, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge McKibbento 37 months in prison following a plea of guilty to domestic assault by a habitual offender on Sept. 16, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced that defendants in two unrelated cases were sentenced to terms of imprisonment for committing bankruptcy fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A former 911 director for Crawford County, Kan., has pleaded guilty to mail fraud, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
News Release: Waycross, GA - Randy Strickland, 55, a former Pierce County, Georgia Deputy Sheriff, pled guilty last week before United States District Court Judge William T. Moore, Jr. for his role in trafficking methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
News Release: RANGERS ENCOURAGE VISITORS TO REMAIN WEATHER SMART.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
News Release: Officials at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today an award of $25 million over five years to a Chicago-based consortium that will build a new center of excellence in advanced materials research. The new Center for Hierarchical Materials Design will support the Administration's...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA)-Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee and Senate author of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act-renewed his call for the Senate to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
By State Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democratic Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement regarding the fourth anniversary of the incarceration of Alan Gross by the government of Cuba.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
News Release: MOBILE, AL-- United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown announced that Tyrone Clark and Joedy Nixon, both Detroit, Michigan residents, were sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge William Steele for a conspiracy to commit a RICO violation. Clark received a sentence of 76 months and Nixon received a sentence of 51 months. Both were ordered to make restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
News Release: David C. Halterman, 44, Ashley M. Attaway, 28, and Rebecca A. Moore, 36, all of Yale, IL, were indicted on Dec. 3, 2013, on methamphetamine related charges in a three count Indictment returned by a Federal Grand Jury sitting in Benton, Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Amara Cisse, age 50, and his wife Fanta Keita, age 45, both of Windsor Mill, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to food stamp fraud in connection with a scheme to illegally redeem food stamp benefits in exchange for cash.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
News Release: Margaret Monone Greenaway was sentenced today to 54 months imprisonment for claiming false income tax refunds totaling $5,271,794 for the years 2010 and 2011, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney. The sentence was imposed by United States District Judge David D. Dowd, Jr., who also imposed a three-year term supervised release following Greenaway’s incarceration.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
News Release: Nationally accepted standards for building design and construction, public shelters and emergency communications can significantly reduce deaths and the steep economic costs of property damage caused by tornadoes. That is the key conclusion of a 2-year technical investigation by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) into the impacts of the May 22, 2011, tornado that struck Joplin, Mo.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Democrats today released a new report highlighting the damaging effect of an expiration of the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation program on military veterans and children of unemployed Americans. Without action, the federal program will expire on Dec. 28,...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
News Release: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Energy (DOE) are releasing the 2014 Fuel Economy Guide, providing consumers with a valuable resource to identify and choose the most fuel efficient and low greenhouse gas-emitting vehicles that meet their needs. The 2014 models include...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., announced today that Ronald Walker, 43, of Corona, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and one kilogram or more of heroin and conspiracy to commit money laundering...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
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 Organizations (“DTOs"). Cordero provided sensitive law enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Clarence Hicks, of Montgomery, Ala., was sentenced to serve 57 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $210,555.62 in restitution for his role in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme, announced George L. Beck Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama. Hicks had previously pleaded guilty to filing a false claim for a federal tax refund and to aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
News Release: In El Paso this morning, Roberto “Bobby" Ruiz, a former representative for New York-based financial services firm Bear Stearns, was sentenced to two years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his role in a “pay-to-play" scheme uncovered during the ongoing public corruption investigation in El Paso announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist, El Paso Division.
