News from December 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: South Bend, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: GREGORY R. ALEXANDER, 36, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced yesterday by U. S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier for his involvement in possessing unregistered destructive devices in a failed attempt to destroy his truck in February, announced U. S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr. Judge Barbier imposed a sentence of 18 months imprisonment, to be followed by two years of supervised release.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: Washington - U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman will travel to Beijing, China to co-chair the 24th session of the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) on December 19 and 20 with Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang. They will be joined by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact with a Minor was sentenced on Dec. 12, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. -Daniel Hufstetler, 34, formerly of 36 High Street in Berlin, New Hampshire was convicted in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire of robbing the Guardian Angel Credit Union, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney, Kenyen Brown announces that Norris Johnson, a 29 year old Selma resident was sentenced today. The Honorable William Steele sentenced Johnson to 108 months incarceration followed by three (3) years of supervised release and a monetary assessment of $200. This sentence was based...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: Operation Lump of Coal found 54 sex offenders out of compliance.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: - Agreed restitution in the amount of $2,090,571.00 from $3,214,035.66 forfeited to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Bella Vista, Ark., man who was previously indicted for robbing Alliant Bank in Blackwater, Mo., has been indicted by a federal grand jury for three additional robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Clifford J. Joyce has been sentenced to one year and six months in prison for framing a Murray County citizen for drug possession.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today led the committee to approve three presidential nominees to fill key positions in the administration. The committee approved John Koskinen’s nomination to be commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Sarah Bloom Raskin’s...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: On Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013, the First Flight Society and the National Park Service will continue the tradition of honoring the accomplishments of Wilbur and Orville Wright at the 110th anniversary celebration of the first heavier-than-air powered flight.The event takes place at Wright Brothers National Memorial and park entrance fees will be waived for the duration of the event.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), ranking Republican on the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, today offered his thoughts on the prospects of Congress completing a new, five-year farm bill early next year.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte sentenced Gerod Simmons, age 30, of Lancaster, South Carolina, today to 125 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm, and witness tampering.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - David Daniel Hicks, Jr., 42, of Andalusia, Alabama, was sentenced today to serve 200 months in prison for the use of a facility of interstate commerce to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity, interstate travel for illicit sexual conduct, and production of child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - HealthCare.gov contractor Creative Computing Solutions, Inc. (CCSi) has rejected an unlawful request from the Department of Health and Human Services to withhold documents subpoenaed by the Oversight Committee. In a letter to HHS Office of Acquisition and Grants Management Director Daniel Kane CCSi Senior Vice President wrote...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, N.J., man admitted today to evading taxes on income from his ownership of a casino in Trinidad, resulting in an approximately $1.3 million loss to the United States, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: ROBERT SWAN, age 51, a resident of Ponchatoula, Louisiana, was charged today in a three-count Indictment with the sexual exploitation of children, as well as receiving and distributing images depicting the sexual victimization of children, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Yesterday afternoon a federal jury convicted Roderick Harold Bolds of one charge of Sex Trafficking of Children and another charge of Transportation of a Minor for Purposes of Prostitution, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2013
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
