News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: House Republican leaders today sent a letter to Education Secretary Arne Duncan on the administration’s failure to properly support and implement the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), w hich helps low-income children in the nation's capital escape underperforming schools.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: MIAMI - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs (ICE), Homeland Security (HSI), Miami Field Division, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: Nine people have been charged or arrested in the last three weeks.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of February 4, 2013. The committee will launch a new energy hearing series with a review of North America’s abundant energy resources and continue efforts to promote Internet freedom. The committee will also vote on the oversight plan for the 113th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: Syracuse, NY-United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and IRS Criminal Investigation Division Special Agent in Charge Toni Weirauch, announced the sentences imposed in United States District Court in Syracuse on Kevin M. O’Connell and Kevin D. O’Connell, two defendants in a long-term mortgage fraud investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La: United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a year-long undercover investigation resulted in 15 being charged for distributing cocaine and methamphetamine in the Mansfield area. Federal and local law enforcement officials arrested 12 so far in connection with.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Freweyni Mebrahtu, 46, of Sterling, Va., was sentenced today to 27 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for stealing nearly $900,000 in visitor parking fees when she was employed by Parking Management, Inc., (PMI), the company contracted to manage parking services at the Smithsonian Institution’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: Today, Members on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-Wis.), Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), Rep. Jerrold L. Nadler (D-N.Y.), Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio), Rep. Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-Va.), and Rep. Melvin L. Watt (D-N.C.), filed a brief as amici curiae in the ...
By State Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Feb. 1, 2013, Steven Michael Gruetzmacher, age 46, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced to 180 months imprisonment for conspiring to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine and for possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. United States District Judge Stephanie M. Rose also sentenced Gruetzmacher to 5 years supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: A search is underway in Rocky Mountain National Park for a missing 39-year-old man, Troy Green, from San Antonio, Texas. The search is currently being focused in the Bear Lake area.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and John P. Kacavas, United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire announced that Manuel Trinidad-Acosta, 29, of New York City, and Ed Cogswell, 47, of
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Late this afternoon in federal court in St. Paul, a business associate of Thomas J. Petters, the Minnesota businessman convicted in 2009 of orchestrating a $3.65 billion Ponzi scheme, pleaded guilty to fraudulently raising money from individuals and through hedge funds for investment in Petters...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Angie L. Gilchrist, 57, of Suffolk, Va., pleaded guilty today in Norfolk federal court to health care fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee and a former Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today said that a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) decision requiring employers to provide health care services in violation of their faith should be overturned by the courts, because it violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) that Hatch helped push through the Congress on a bipartisan basis.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Brian Matthew Williams, age 28, of West Chester, Pennsylvania, today to 10 years in prison followed by 50 years of supervised release for receipt of child pornography.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: Visitors to Tokyo, Japan, will have a chance to see first-hand the beauty of flowering dogwood trees, thanks in part to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists who helped select specific dogwoods best suited to the Japanese climate.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Jan. 31, 2013, Robert Leslie Ranck, age 46, was sentenced to 130 months imprisonment, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. United States District Judge Stephanie M. Rose also sentenced Ranck to three years supervised release following imprisonment, ordered him to pay a $200 special assessment to the crime victim fund, and ordered him to forfeit all firearms and ammunition involved in the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2013
News Release: Defendant With Gang Ties Sold Eight Guns To Person Working With Law Enforcement.
