News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Western District of Michigan. Wednesday, February 6, 2013. Ken Hoesch also sentenced for federal tax offense. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Kenneth Hoesch, age 59, formerly an attorney in Zeeland, Michigan, was sentenced to 78 months imprisonment and 3 years of...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Richmond, Kentucky man with a lengthy criminal history was sentenced today to more than 250 months for dealing cocaine and using his retail store to conceal his drug trafficking activity.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: For organizations seeking insight toward improved performance and results, the annual Quest for Excellence® conference is the definitive showcase of best practices from the previous year's winners of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award-the nation's highest honor for performance excellence and innovation. In 2013, however, the event will be extra special, as the Baldrige Award and Quest for Excellence® both celebrate 25 years of service and achievement.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced today that Alan Johnson of Loveland, Colorado was found guilty of running a drug trafficking criminal enterprise that distributed cocaine and methamphetamine throughout northern Colorado and as far away as Montana. Johnson was convicted in Larimer District Court of two felony violations of the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act and 18 felony violations of the Colorado Controlled Substances Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: In Austin this afternoon, Hussein Ali “Mike" Yassine, age 40, pleaded guilty to engaging in a tax fraud scheme using his Austin nightclubs.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is in search of a partner organization to help small businesses commercialize the technologies they develop as part of NIST's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The partner, with funding from NIST, would offer NIST SBIR companies technical and business advice and resources to assist them in successfully commercializing their research.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: A memorandum of cooperation was signed Feb. 6, to memorialize a joint commitment to continue the Transnational Criminal Investigative Unit (TCIU) in Afghanistan and set forth principles of cooperation between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), represented by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and the Ministry of Interior, of the government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A man from Overland Park, Kan., has pleaded guilty to helping a drug trafficking organization distribute more than $16.9 million worth of marijuana and cocaine in Kansas, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Kansas announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bi-partisan leadership of the House Committee on Natural Resources today jointly introduced legislation that will address an impending national helium crisis as supplies of the resource dwindle. Democratic Ranking Member Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Subcommittee Ranking Member Rush Holt (D-N.J.)...
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. COLUMBUS - A U.S. District Court jury here today convicted Sontay T. Smotherman, 36, of Columbus of operating a drug house in east Columbus. Carter M. Stewart...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting and Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on February 4, 2013 by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno. James Ewing, Jr., age 30, was sentenced to 12 months custody and $25 to the Victim Assistance Fund.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is requesting comments on the final public draft of Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations, Special Publication (SP)800-53, Revision 4. The document, two years in the making, is the latest revision to a document that is considered the principal catalog of security safeguards and countermeasures that federal agencies use to protect their information and information systems.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today commented on the nomination of Sally Jewell to be Secretary of the Interior. Jewel is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Barry Allman, age 22, of Hermosa, South Dakota appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on February 5, 2013 and pled guilty to Escape. The maximum penalty upon conviction is 5 years in custody, a $250,000 fine, or both; 3 years of supervised release; and a $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings on February 5, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, DANIEL YOUNG, a 35-year-old resident of Billings, was arraigned and pled guilty to bank fraud. Sentencing is set for May 8, 2013. He is currently released on special conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on February 6, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Carolyn S. Ostby, the following individual appeared.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., February 6, 2013 - House Natural Resources Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement on President Obama’s nomination of Recreational Equipment Inc., “REI" CEO Sally Jewell to be Secretary of the Interior.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Robert E. O'Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces today the unsealing of a federal indictment charging 14 individuals with conspiring to distribute 1,000 kilograms...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today asked acting Secretary of Commerce Dr. Rebecca Blank to consider the potential impact of offshore aquaculture on wild fisheries before accepting a plan to permit such operations in the Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 23-year-old Redby man pleaded guilty to harboring a fugitive last spring. Andrew Oakgrove pleaded guilty to one count of harboring and concealing a fugitive. Oakgrove, who was indicted on Dec. 10, 2012, entered his plea before United States District Court Judge John R. Tunheim.
