News from December 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 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 Ventrell Bouie, 46, of Fort Pierce, was sentenced today on charges of aiding and assisting the preparation and presentation of false tax returns, in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7206(2).
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: Democrats from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are cutting through the misinformation about the Affordable Care Act and focusing on how millions of Americans are benefiting from this law.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. COLUMBUS, OHIO - Stewart A. Miller, 48, of Sunbury, Ohio pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to one count of receipt of child pornography. Miller was...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: Began with Anonymous Contact on Facebook.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Robert Mullen, 60, a former officer with the Lawton, Okla., Police Department who now resides in Albuquerque, N.M., was arrested this morning by Special Agents of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) on a criminal complaint charging him with receiving and possessing visual depictions...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Trenton, N.J., man with a previous conviction for drug distribution today admitted possessing three firearms, including a loaded semi-automatic rifle and a loaded revolver, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- Biologists received some good news this month about plans to re-introduce California red-legged frogs to the Santa Monica Mountains. The isolated population located in the nearby Simi Hills appears to be healthy and reproducing, which is critical to the success of the re-introduction effort planned for next spring.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Rodney Chavez, 47, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced yesterday afternoon to 63 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his wire fraud and money laundering conviction. Chavez also was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $847,370.52 to the victims...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Dr. Lynn E. Foret, 64, of Lake Charles, La., was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Richard T. Haik to 12 months in prison and three years of supervised release for defrauding Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: Milestones on the way to quantum computing. A landmark study of how communities can better prepare for tornadoes. Publication of a draft cybersecurity framework for the nation. Evidence of a potentially new class of solids. New programs to promote and support innovation in manufacturing.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: Filings Seek Orders Forfeiting Pension Benefits Of Convicted Former New York City Council Members Larry Seabrook And Miguel Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Morris County, N.J., doctor practicing internal medicine admitted today to taking cash kickbacks for making referrals to a diagnostic testing lab in Orange, N.J., U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Parkersburg man was sentenced yesterday to two and a half years in federal prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release for failing to update his sex offender registration as required by the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced. Dwaine Allen Collins, also known as “Dwaine Allen Cline," 54, previously was convicted after a bench trial in September.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: Establishes New Reporting And Review Requirements For Uses Of Force.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-A report released at the request of Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee and Rep. George Miller (D-CA), senior Democrat on the House Education & the Workforce Committee-along with Rep. Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Rep. Sandy...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: Who cares about old plastic? Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) do, so that you won't have to years down the road, when today's plastic concoctions start to break down and disintegrate from weather exposure. Experiments* at NIST may help scientists devise better tests to make sure aging plastics won't turn into environmental or health hazards as time goes by.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced today for his role in an armed robbery of a Metro PCS store in Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former Joplin, Mo., middle school teacher has pleaded guilty in federal court to sexually exploiting a child victim to produce child pornography. Charles D.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: (DETROIT) - Today, U.S. House Judiciary Chairman Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) responded to U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon’s ruling yesterday that the National Surveillance Agency’s (NSA) bulk metadata collection program, which collects information on virtually all telephone calls ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Franklin Roosevelt Coit, a/k/a “Frank," and “Nitty," age 35, of Baltimore, today to 140 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for sex trafficking of a minor, in connection with a prostitution business...
