News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: Defendants Stole Millions in U.S. Treasury Checks from Postal Facility.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: We cannot continue to under-invest in the short term and pay several times over in the long term recovering from damages that could be mitigated with proper front-end investment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court yesterday, Calvin Dwight MITCHELL, 27, of Smithfield, North Carolina, was convicted for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy as well as distributing cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: In El Paso today, a federal grand jury returned a 17-count indictment charging 46-year-old El Paso attorney Marco Antonio Delgado a.k.a. Marco Delgado Licon in connection with a multi-million dollar wire fraud and money laundering scheme announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Dennis Ulrich.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that two men and one woman from Eagle Butte, South Dakota have been indicted by a federal grand jury.
By State Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Ed Royce, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Eliot Engel, the Committee’s Ranking Member, will introduce bipartisan sanctions legislation aimed at preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability, and further increasing economic pressure on Iranian leaders as the regime develops its nuclear program and commits gross human rights violations.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: Today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, unveiled the American Family Economic Protection Act -- legislation to replace the indiscriminate, across the board federal spending cuts known as “the sequester" with an alternative deficit reduction proposal that includes a balanced mix of spending cuts and revenue increases. Following is a summary of the tax provisions in the American Family Economic Protection Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: Human Resources Subcommittee Hearing on Increasing Adoptions from Foster Care.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that three men and a woman have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage, Alaska, on 46 counts of conspiracy to defraud the government, mail fraud, and aggravated identity theft related to a prisoner tax fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: Defendant Also Traveled to Georgia to Buy Firearms.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Tarik Packing Services Inc. has satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: 398 National Park Units Nationwide Contribute $30 billion and 252,000 Jobs to Local Economies.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - A self-admitted high-ranking member of a Chicago street gang that operates in a south side neighborhood that he and his associates refer to as “Terror Town," was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison. The defendant, GILBERT SPILLER, holds the rank of “general" in the Black P Stone Nation...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Leon Donald Farlee, age 31, of Eagle Butte, South Dakota was convicted on Feb. 22, 2013 of one count of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and one count of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury. The guilty verdicts followed a four-day federal jury trial. Each charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both; 3 years of supervised release; and a $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota man convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter was sentenced on Feb. 20, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange. Thomas Hacker Sr., age 50, was sentenced to 30 months in custody, 1 year of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment to the Victim Assistance Fund.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Following a six-day jury trial, Brent Edward Lovett, 50, of Henderson, Nev., was convicted today of bank fraud for making false statements to a federally insured credit union to obtain a $7.5 million commercial real estate loan, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: CBO along with other agencies face a roughly 5 percent decrease on March 1.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Nixa, Mo., woman has been sentenced in federal court for participating in a conspiracy to create and cash more than $134,000 in counterfeit checks in a three-state area. The scheme...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: SAVANNAH, Ga. - A federal indictment, unsealed today in federal court, has charged six defendants with conspiracy to traffic oxycodone, hydrocodone and other drugs through a purported pain clinic known as East Health Center, which operated in Garden City, Georgia from February through May of 2011.