News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE -Kenneth Mike Etsitty, 58, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Tse-Yah-Toh, N.M., was sentenced this morning to 18 years in prison followed by ten years of supervised release for his child sex abuse conviction. Etsitty will be required to register as a sex offender when he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that a Detroit man pleaded guilty in federal court to distribution of a quantity oxycodone. Robert Louis Smith, 40, admitted that on March 12, 2010, he met a confidential informant at a predetermined location, entered the informant’s vehicle...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: Two Jackson County, IL, residents were indicted on February 5, 2013, in an indictment, charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: Wind Cave National Park, S.D. - The movement patterns of 36 elk at Wind Cave National Park are now being monitored using GPS (Global Positioning System) tracking radio collars. The collars were recently placed on the elk as part of the final year of a three-year study to document the effects of a recently implemented elk management plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two defendants today admitted their roles in one of the nation’s largest and longest running stolen identity refund fraud schemes ever identified, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: New Bedford, Mass.- New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park will be the place to be on AHA! (Art, History, Architecture) night, Thursday, February 14. The evening will feature the Ruth and Abby, the 1850s ladies, from 6:00-8:00 PM, Youth Ambassador Program (YAP!) at 6:00 PM, and Schooner Ernestina...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today unveiled a new Keystone Clock as well as an extensive, online Keystone resource center detailing the long history of the still yet-to-be approved Keystone XL pipeline. At 1,606 days and counting since the initial application was submitted to the...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two defendants today admitted their roles in one of the nation’s largest and longest running stolen identity refund fraud schemes ever identified, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today unveiled a new Keystone Clock as well as an extensive, online Keystone resource center detailing the long history of the still yet-to-be approved Keystone XL pipeline. At 1,606 days and counting since the initial application was submitted to the...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) called on Russia today to end its unscientific ban on U.S. meat exports, including beef and pork. Despite the conclusions of international food safety organizations that U.S. beef and pork are safe for consumption, Russia announced in December its intent to institute a ban, which went into effect today.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Republicans today sent a letter to President Obama urging a fiscally responsible, long-term solution to the Stafford Loan interest rate problem. Chairman John Kline (R-MN), Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC), ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - U.S. District Judge John E. Steele today sentenced Peter Jensen to 31 months in federal prison for tax evasion. The court also ordered him to pay restitution to the Internal Revenue Service in the amount of $2,155,133.88. Jensen pleaded guilty to one count of tax evasion on Oct. 23, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Carl Campbell, 37, of Chicago, Illinois was found guilty of five counts including sex trafficking by force and sex trafficking of children. The guilty verdicts followed a week-long federal jury trial in Sioux Falls.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: LEXINGTON, KY - A Lexington man was indicted for allegedly robbing a bank in Fayette County in November of last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ALI FAR, a former employee of Galleon Group and founder/portfolio manager of Spherix Capital Partners, was sentenced today to one year of probation for his participation in multiple insider trading schemes...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has appointed nine members and nine alternates to the American Egg Board for the 2012-2013 term. All appointees will serve 2-year terms.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Darian “Drake" Pierce, 35, of Bogalusa, Louisiana, and Ricky L. Wedgeworth, 38, of Memphis, Tennessee, pled guilty in federal court today to one count of kidnapping, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Daniel McMullen, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: Former Controller Fled To The Philippines When Theft Was Discovered.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2013
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Stole Approximately $800,000 from His Business Investors.
