News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: - Switched UPC Labels On Purchases Then Sold Merchandise At A Profit On Ebay.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a call for grant proposals for a broad range of potential research projects covering the institute's interests in the physical sciences and engineering.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Wednesday, February 6, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged James O. Napier, 38, of Cincinnati with 20 counts of producing child pornography which involve an 11-month old...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - United States Attorney Pamela C. Marsh announced thatChristopher Shaun Lamar, 35, of Atlantawassentenced today to 293 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine and possessing cocaine with intent to distribute. Sentence was imposed by United States District Judge Richard Smoak, who presided over Lamar’s jury trial in November 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Rita Runs Above, age 35, of St. Francis, South Dakota appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on February 5, 2013 and pled guilty to Abusive Sexual Contact. The maximum penalty upon conviction is 3 years in custody, a $250,000 fine, or both; life of supervised release; and a $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: SYRACUSE, NY - Richard S. Hartunian, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, announces that COREY LEITZ, age 42, of Frankfort, New York, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Syracuse to 151 months, followed by 5 years supervised release and a $100 special assessment. Leitz had previously pled guilty to a onecount information charging him with knowingly manufacturing over one thousand (1000) marijuana plants.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Daniel Jimenez, 25, of Fort Meyers, Florida, was sentenced to time served (eight months) by Chief U.S. District Court Judge William M. Skretny for assisting his father, German Jimenez, with providing false identification documents to illegal aliens.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson has completed his term as Chairman of the Department of Justice’s Native American Issues Subcommittee (NAIS), but will continue to advise the Attorney General in his role as a member of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee of U.S. Attorneys (AGAC). Johnson has served as chairman of the NAIS since 2009, shortly after his confirmation as U.S. Attorney for the District of South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Rafael Goxcon-Chagal, 52, and Maria Vianey Medina-Copete, 36, both residents of Tulsa, Okla., each was sentenced today to a 15-year term of imprisonment for their narcotics trafficking and firearms convictions. Goxcon-Chagal will be on supervised release for five years after completing...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Ella Mae Simpson, 55, of Hayward, Calif., was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of oxycodone, possession with intent to distribute and distribution of oxycodone, and possession with intent to distribute oxycodone, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: A Holland, Ohio, man was indicted on four tax counts related to his failure to claim more than $460,000 in taxable income, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement on the House floor in opposition to the GOP Plan D Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, today announced that criminal charges were filed against two men accused in separate incidents of illegally re-entering the United States following deportation or removal.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Ranking Member Tom Coburn M.D., R-Okla., sent a letter to leaders of both chambers of Congress supporting today’s announcement by the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: A man who conspired to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine was sentenced February 5, 2013, to ten years in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: Washington-Congressman Blake Farenthold, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, and the Census, released the following statement today on the United States Postal Service plan to end Saturday delivery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: Three men were indicted on federal firearms charges, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The United States has seized a bank account located in Bermuda alleged to have been owned by former State of Coahuila, Mexico, Secretary of Finance Hector Javier Villareal Hernandez, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - Charles R. Barbour, of West Des Moines, Iowa, pleaded guilty to one count of income tax evasion in a proceeding before United States Magistrate Judge Celeste F. Bremer, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Sentencing has been scheduled for May 9, 2013, at the United States Courthouse in Des Moines before United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today welcomed U.S. action requesting World Trade Organization (WTO) consultations over India’s National Solar Program and issued the following statement...
