News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Authorities this morning arrested six people linked to a large-scale tax fraud scheme that allegedly used stolen identities to fraudulently file more than 2,500 income tax returns that sought over $19 million in fraudulent tax refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces the return of an indictment charging Lydia Santiago (38, Bartow) with conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. Santiago also faces one count of being a felon in possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: Stock placed on federal supervised release for life.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced today that Felix Rodriguez, a licensed medical doctor, pled guilty to a one-count Information...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held a hearing to examine reports of waste and misuse in the Obama administration’s $7 billion broadband stimulus program. Although the administration widely proclaimed its 2009 stimulus program...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: Oversight of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - An Addison man was convicted today by a federal jury of being a felon-inpossession of a firearm. The defendant, MARIO J. RAINONE, was found guilty following a two-day trial. The jury was empaneled on Monday before U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, two Minneapolis women were sentenced for stealing more than $1 million from the ING life insurance company. United States District Court Judge Susan Richard Nelson sentenced Angela Patrice Madison, age 42, to 35 months in federal prison on one count...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held a hearing to examine reports of waste and misuse in the Obama administration’s $7 billion broadband stimulus program. Although the administration widely proclaimed its 2009 stimulus program...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - James Sweeney, age 36, of Baltimore, Maryland, was sentenced to life in prison, for conspiracy to participate in a violent racketeering enterprise known as the Dead Man Incorporated (DMI). Sweeney was a founder of DMI and became its “Supreme D.".
By USDA Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today commended the U.S. Department of Agriculture for prioritizing rural communities through its release of a report on streamlining rural programs and making them easier for rural communities to use. The effort consolidates 11 different definitions of “rural" into one, to better target resources for programs that promote rural economic development.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury and Child Abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces the return of an indictment charging Emir Peron (31,Seffner) and Roger Gary Driggers (60, Lakeland) with conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. Peron also faces three counts of possession of a firearm in furtherance...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Five House Democrats who lead their respective committees today pressed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to require that all U.S. nuclear reactors of the same design as the ones that melted down at the Fukushima nuclear facility in Japan install vents to help prevent hydrogen explosions in the event of a severe accident and reduce exposure to radiation when they are used.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: Nephew Arrested for Obstruction of Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Independence, Mo., man was convicted in federal court today of a scheme to receive Social Security disability payments while running a mortgage brokerage firm that he founded in Blue Springs, Mo.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held a hearing to examine reports of waste and misuse in the Obama administration’s $7 billion broadband stimulus program. Although the administration widely proclaimed its 2009 stimulus program...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on Feb. 27, 2013, Fernando Sanchez-Sanchez, formerly of Lincoln, was sentenced to a total of 235 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine and failure to appear.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement in response to Shell’s decision to put their exploration activities on pause this summer for offshore Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A California man has been sentenced to life in federal prison for methamphetamine trafficking in Kansas City, Kan., U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
