News from February 2013

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: Four additional co-conspirators previously pled guilty

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON- Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, D-Md., of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent a letter this week to the Department of Justice’s top Freedom of Information Act officer posing 24 questions for the agency on longstanding problems in FOIA and the Department’s role improving federal agency compliance with the transparency law.
By State Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on today’s implementation of tighter Iran sanctions provisions included in the Iran Threat Reduction and Syrian Human Rights Act of 2012...

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON- 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 Postal...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment Wednesday afternoon charging John Reid Clayton, age 29, of Stansbury Park, Utah, with four counts of production of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, today announced that an information was filed against Deldre L. Jordan, age 40, of Toledo, Ohio. The charge relates to theft of mail by a postal employee beginning on or about January 2012 and continuing to March 23, 2012.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), the Ranking Member of the Natural Resources Committee, which has jurisdiction over the Interior Department, today released the following statement on the nomination of Sally Jewell to succeed Ken Salazar as the Secretary of Interior...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Billy Webb, 77, Gary Eugene Teague, 45, Emily Suzanne Sexton, 26, Timothy Jay Gilbert, 50, Christopher Lynn Suggs, 52, Tammie Brown Suggs, 43, and Ella Mae Gregg, 63, all of Newport, Tenn., and Regina Faye Webb, 36, of Cosby, Tenn., were all arrested on Feb. 6, 2013, after being...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: Defendant Conspired With Former Vice-President of Pavillion Bank in Richardson, Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-Illinois): “My city - Chicago, Illinois - has long been a leader in efforts to seriously reduce the number of illegal guns in our society, which has been my position for years. The time has come to pass this legislation and to make it stick. "
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - An accountant in Manhattan, Kan., has been charged with embezzling more than $500,000 from the commercial construction company where he worked, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.

By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wyoming State Office has posted its proposed list of parcels for the quarterly competitive oil and gas lease sale scheduled for Tuesday, May 7, at the Holiday Inn in Cheyenne, Wyo. Doors open at 7 a.m. with the auction beginning at 8 a.m.

By Homeland Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Tom Carper released the following statement reacting to the Postmaster General’s announcement that the U.S. Postal Service plans to reduce some mail delivery to 5 days a week...

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) expects to host three new Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) from the latest round announced yesterday by the White House.* The PIF program pairs top innovators from the private sector, nonprofits and academia with top innovators in government to collaborate during six-to-12 month "tours of duty" that aim to save lives, save taxpayer money and fuel job creation. Fellows are funded by the sponsoring agencies.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: Defendants Relied on Local Restaurant & Retail Establishment Employees.

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON- Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, D-Md., of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent a letter this week to the Department of Justice’s top Freedom of Information Act officer posing 24 questions for the agency on longstanding problems in FOIA and the Department’s role improving federal agency compliance with the transparency law.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 26-year-old Longview, Texas man has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - Andrew Dale McKee, 36, formerly of Oklahoma City, was sentenced this afternoon by U.S. District Judge Barbara M. G. Lynn to 87 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in October 2012 to one count of transferring obscene material to a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: Abdullah Sirleaf, 19, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by indictment with robbery and gun charges for holdups at six different business, in Philadelphia and Lansdowne, PA, in June and July of 2013, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Sirleaf is charged with the armed robberies...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 45-year-old Marshall, Texas, man has been sentenced to federal prison for bank fraud violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.