News from February 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to today’s announcement of a comprehensive set of policy principles to reduce gun violence by Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Mike Thompson, Chairman of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - An indictment was filed and an information unsealed today charging two business associates in the hedge fund management industry with defrauding institutional investors and causing collective losses of more than $311 million, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Helmut...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: TAMPA, FL - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces the arrest of Jason Deon Thomas (31, St. Petersburg) on charges of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, possession of a machinegun, possession with the intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana, and other firearms offenses. If convicted, Thomas faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison on the drug charges and 10 years in federal prison on each of the gun charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: Urbana, Ill. - A grand jury today returned an indictment that charges Karyn E. Graham, 43, of Tuscola, Ill., with embezzling more than $340,000 from her former employer, a Champaign county, Ill., farm machinery and implement company, and filing false income tax returns. Graham will be issued a summons to appear in federal court in Urbana for arraignment on a date to be determined by the U.S. Clerk of the Court.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: MUNISING, Mich. Gregg Bruff, Chief of Heritage Education and Cultural Resources at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, will retire on Feb. 22, after a 37 year career with the National Park Service and the U.S. Forest Service. Bruff also served in the Army Reserve and National Guard from 1971-1978.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Albert Craft, Jr., 29, of Gulfport, was found guilty by a jury in U.S. District Court today of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced United States Attorney Gregory K. Davis.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement in response to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report on the nation's port security efforts. The report, entitled "United...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Genaro Torres, 58, formerly of Laredo, Texas, and Maria E. Garcia, 64, formerly of Houston, Texas, were sentenced for their roles in a cocaine conspiracy.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., February 7, 2013 - House Natural Resources Public Lands and Environmental Regulation Subcommittee Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01), along with Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (MI-06), Armed Services Committee Chairman...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that James “Willie" Kimble, 80, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of failing to register as a sex offender, was sentenced to 33 months in prison and five years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: Alleged Scheme Involved Sham Investments In West African Gold And Diamond Mines.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two lawyers with a Fairfield, N.J., law firm today admitted they structured $354,000 in client funds into their attorney accounts to avoid currency reporting requirements, U. S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Albanian national who was living in Clifton, N.J., admitted in federal court today to robbing two TD Bank branches while armed with a gun in late 2011, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: Dear Mr. President: We are writing to urge you to nominate a permanent director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). We applauded your nomination of Joseph A. Smith Jr. to this position in 2010, and we were disappointed when his nomination was blocked in the Senate. However, it has been three...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Luzerne County man was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Richard P. Conaboy to serve 84 months in prison on the charge of conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: New Bern - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court on Jan. 31, 2013, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced ANDETRA MICHELLE SAMPSON, 39, to 60 months imprisonment followed by 3 years supervised release, for her involvement in a health care fraud...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today OLDEN TERRY, 39, was sentenced by United State’s District Judge Terrence W. Boyle to 295 months imprisonment followed by five years supervised release.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: On Wednesday, February 13 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), will hold a hearing entitled “The Future of the NLRB: What Noel Canning vs. NLRB Means for Workers, Employers, and Unions." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - Today, Chief U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken sentenced Rhonda Milligan, 42, of Lebanon, Oregon, to 27 months in federal prison for embezzling from her former employer, Entek Manufacturing, Inc., a company in Lebanon, Oregon. Milligan pled guilty to a single count of wire fraud on May 18, 2012. She was also sentenced to three years supervised release and must pay restitution in the amount of $848,156.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
Release: The Foreign Agricultural Service’s (FAS) Agricultural Trade Office (ATO) in Japan recently released a smart phone optimized version of their business website, us-ato.jp, in conjunction with their “Taste of America" campaign.
