News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Larreka Jackson pleaded guilty yesterday to her role in a multi-million dollar conspiracy to use stolen identities to obtain tax refunds, announced George L. Beck, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - United States District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington yesterday sentenced Ihab "Steve" (42, Lutz) to 17 years in federal prison for illegally distributing Oxycodone. On Aug. 21, 2012, a federal jury found Barsoum guilty of one count of conspiracy to distribute Oxycodone outside...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: A man who sexually exploited and extorted minors pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Dion Reid, 35, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by indictment with two counts of honest services fraud and two counts of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that Reid, a former corrections...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: PHOENIX - On Feb. 4, 2013, Anthony Keith Swint, 43, of Phoenix, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Paul G. Rosenblatt to 33 months in federal prison. Swint was found guilty by a federal jury in Prescott, Ariz. on Sept. 28, 2012, of two counts of assault on a federal officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: Identity Theft Tax Fraud Strike Force Continues to Charge More Cases.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton spoke at the Chatham House in London, United Kingdom Tuesday, Feb. 5.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: The former treasurer of Madison County, Illinois, pled guilty in US District Court on February 5, 2013, to violating the Sherman Antitrust Act, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Fred Bathon, 58, was convicted of structuring Madison County property tax sales in a way that increased prices and rewarded campaign contributors.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 47-year-old St. Paul man was indicted in connection with the Dec. 13, 2012, armed robbery of the US Bank branch located at 711 Cleveland Avenue South in St. Paul. David Judin Greer was specifically charged with one count of armed bank robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: PEDRO FERNANDEZ-GARCIA, age 40, a citizen of Mexico, pled guilty in federal court today before U. S. District Judge Sarah S. Vance to a one-count indictment charging him with illegal re-entry by a removed alien, announced U. S. Attorney Dana Boente.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today kicked off its “American Energy Security and Innovation" hearing series with a discussion of America’s vast energy resources and the benefits and opportunities of the nation’s new energy...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - Whitney Rohacek, 26, of Crystal Beach, has been was arrested following the return of an indictment charging her with fraud in connection with a major disaster and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By State Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the following opening statement at a joint subcommittee hearing entitled, “Fighting for Internet Freedom: Dubai and Beyond.".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: TYLER, Texas - U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that 11 individuals are in custody following a lengthy investigation into drug trafficking in the Eastern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
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By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: HOMESTEAD - Everglades National Park joined other federal and state partners to celebrate the completion of a key component in improving freshwater deliveries to the southern end of the Everglades ecosystem, during a January 11 dedication ceremony at the C-111 Spreader Canal Western Project. A key component...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: GOLDEN, Colo. -- The Bureau of Land Management Colorado’s Northwest, Southwest and Front Range Resource Advisory Councils scheduled a joint meeting for Feb. 13-15 at the Denver Marriott West, 1717 Denver West Boulevard, Golden, Colo.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: Senator David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and fellow Committee member Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) in a letter today urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to review the science behind an economically significant new rule tightening the national ambient air quality standards for fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and to hold off on implementation and enforcement.
By State Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement upon the Bulgarian Government’s finding that two members of Hezbollah were responsible for the July 2012 attack on a bus in Burgas, Bulgaria that killed six people, including five Israeli tourists...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Khalil Kenyon Blackman, 31, of District Heights, Md. was convicted yesterday of conspiring to commit three armed robberies of truck drivers who were delivering Apple products to area stores.
