News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jack Belin, Jr., 59, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., pled guilty this morning to an abusive sexual contact charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Rebecca Aguilar, 25, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty this morning to aiding and abetting the armed robbery of an Albuquerque-are business under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Under the terms of her plea agreement, Aguilar will be sentenced to a term of four to five years in prison. Aguilar will remain in custody pending her sentencing hearing, which has yet to be set.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Canadian man has pleaded guilty to picking up a 12-year-old girl in El Dorado, Kan., and taking her out of state for the purpose of having sex with her, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - Randall Blair Johnson, 54, of Sisters, Oregon, was sentenced yesterday to 41 months in federal prison and was ordered to pay $260,536 in restitution to the IRS and a $50,000 fine after a jury found him guilty of three counts of income tax evasion, three counts of willful failure to file tax returns and one count of witness tampering.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces that a federal jury found Christopher Castillo (28, Melbourne) guilty yesterday of threatening to kill the President of the United States. Castillo faces a maximum penalty of 5 years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for April 26, 2013, before United States District Judge John Antoon, II. Castillo was indicted on Dec. 12, 2012, after a criminal complaint was issued on Nov. 13, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Cary Anderson, age 32, of Dameron, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to sexually exploiting minors to produce child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former mortgage broker and bank officer from Bergen County, N.J., was arrested this morning for allegedly conspiring to commit bank fraud to secure a $1.5 million residential loan, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Arvel Wills, 23, of Washington, D.C., was indicted today on murder and related charges in the killing of his cousin, Dwayne Wills, last year in Northeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - The former secretary-treasurer of a Newark union today admitted embezzling $71,000 from Local 1233 of the International Longshoreman’s Association, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Leonard Edwards, age 22, of Lower Brule, South Dakota appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on February 5, 2013 and pled guilty to Count II of the Indictment that charged him with Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury. The maximum penalty upon conviction is 10 years of imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, or both; 3 years of supervised release and 2 additional years of supervised release upon revocation.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: The Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Energy and Commerce Committees today unveiled the ObamaCare Burden Tracker (#ObamaCareBurden). The Burden Tracker is an online resource to help the public keep track of all of the new government mandates, rules, and red tape as a result of ObamaCare.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: Five individuals and five corporations have been charged in an indictment unsealed today in Brooklyn federal court for allegedly importing hazardous and counterfeit toys from China for sale in the United States, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer of the Justice Department's Criminal Division;...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced a new competition for grants to create pilot projects for online secure identity systems that advance the vision of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). The goal of the grant program is to accelerate progress toward improved systems for interoperable, secure, privacy-enhancing trusted online credentials that go beyond simple user IDs and passwords.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: Deadline for submission of a grant proposal to the U.S. Attorney is Feb. 18, 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement on the Committee’s consideration of Jacob Lew’s nomination to serve as Treasury Secretary next Wednesday, February 13th...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Floyd Lee Corkins, II, 28, pled guilty today to three felony charges, including a terrorism offense, in the August 2012 shooting of a security guard at the Family Research Council in downtown Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is accepting applications for the 2013 NIST Summer Institute for Middle School Science Teachers and the Research Experience for Teachers programs. Both programs offer educators the chance to interact with and learn from top scientists and engineers, in classroom and laboratory settings.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: Washington -The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) today announced that it is seeking comments on the Dairy Tariff-Rate Import Quota Licensing Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Columbia. Wednesday, February 6, 2013. -Victim, a Student at Roosevelt High School Was Shot Soon After the End of Classes-. WASHINGTON - Raymond Roseboro, 22, of Washington, D.C., was found guilty by a jury today of first-degree premeditated murder...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2013
News Release: In Midland today, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging 38-year-old former Odessa Police officer Jackie Lynn Thompson and five other Odessa, Texas, residents in connection with a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, Drug Enforcement Administration...
