News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin charged a former Charleston-based Chase Bank executive yesterday with embezzlement by a bank employee. According to a court document filed on Feb. 4, Mark McCoy, 46, of Charleston, W.Va., was charged with embezzling thousands of dollars from Chase Bank.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: MINERAL - In looking towards the future, Lassen Volcanic National Park is in the planning phase to create a camping facility which will provide greater opportunities for youth groups to camp, explore and experience their park. Crags Campground, located just 4.4 miles from the Manzanita Lake Entrance...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) today released the following statement in recognition of the 20th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: U.S. Attorney Christopher A. Crofts announced that on February 4, 2013, Natalie Faith Brown, a twenty-seven year old Northern Arapaho Tribal member from the Wind River Indian Reservation, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Freudenthal to one year probation with the first six months...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following the successful completion of the first phase, the Energy Department today announced the beginning of Phase II of project development with a new cooperative agreement between the FutureGen Industrial Alliance and the Department of Energy for an innovative carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Illinois.
By State Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (NY-16), the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released this statement in response to the report issued by the Bulgarian government that blames Hezbollah for the terrorist attack in Burgas, Bulgaria last summer that killed five Israeli tourists and one Bulgarian citizen. The statement follows...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: A man who failed to appear for service of his federal sentence was sentenced today to more than two additional years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: Local businessman A. Eddy Zai was sentenced to more than seven years in prison and ordered to forfeit more than $23 million after he previously pleaded guilty to nine counts related to his participation in a fraud against St. Paul Croatian Federal Credit Union, law enforcement officials said.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, said that the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) annual Budget and Economic Outlook demonstrates the urgent need to restrain Washington spending and bring much-needed reforms to government, and said President Obama’s call for tax hike gimmicks will do little to confront the debt or replace the automatic spending cuts known as the sequester.
By State Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement on the announcement by Bulgarian officials that a comprehensive investigation into the July 18, 2012 terrorist attack on a tour bus in Burgas, Bulgaria has determined that two of the assailants had ties to the military wing of Hezbollah. The attack resulted in the tragic deaths of five Israeli tourists and their Bulgarian driver.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: A Freeburg man, Clayton R. Collins, 35, plead guilty and was sentenced in federal district court to 25 years in prison on February 4, 2013, on a five-count indictment charging him with Enticement of a Minor to Engage in Sexual Activity, Transportation of Child Pornography, Receipt of Child Pornography...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-In case you missed it, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) today announced in an op-ed for Politico that he plans to reintroduce the Healthy Families Act to provide paid sick days to American workers. Harkin’s announcement comes on...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr, announced today that Joseph Baudendistle, 38, of Odessa, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer to possession of chemicals used to manufacture methamphetamine. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 25-year-old felon from St. Paul was sentenced for possessing an unregistered 12-gauge shotgun. United States District Court Judge David S. Doty sentenced Michael Romeo Geraci to 120 months in prison on one count of possession of an unregistered firearm. Geraci was indicted on May 22, 2012, and pleaded guilty on September 6, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: OAKLAND, Calif. - Denise LaShawn Reed, aka Brooke Nicholson, aka Lauren Roberts, aka Denise Berry, aka Savana Jones, aka Neyce Roberts was arrested yesterday morning on charges related to a false tax refund scheme, United States Attorney Melinda Haag and IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Jose M. Martinez announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: Defendants Ordered to Pay Victim Insurance Companies Restitution of Over $147,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: Defendants Used Molotov Cocktails to Destroy Government Vehicles and.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, announced that WILLIAM K. ECHOLS, 28, of Enid, Oklahoma, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Stephen P. Friot to serve 36 months in prison for failure to register as a sex offender. Upon his release, Echols will be under the Supervision of United States Probation Office for ten years.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: In recognition of Black History Month, the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House and the Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Sites (NHS) will host special programs to remember and recognize the history of African Americans. These events are tailored to this year's theme, "At the Crossroads of Freedom and Equality. The Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced ANTONIO RASHAAD DOVINE, 23, to 146 years imprisonment followed by 5 years supervised release and ordered to pay $7,590.00 in restitution.
