News from February 2013
By USDA Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: Washington -The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) is collecting public comment at www.ams.usda.gov/nosbmeetings in advance of its spring meeting in Portland, Oregon, April 9-11.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: Used Rescue Mission Line Of Credit To Provide More Than $1 Million To Associates.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A federal judge in McAllen has sentenced the last of five men who previously pleaded guilty to smuggling approximately 2,672 pounds of marijuana, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Joseph Edem, 53, of Richmond, has been convicted of conspiracy to commit health care fraud relating to medically unnecessary diagnostic testing and physical therapy, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: SULPHUR, OK - Chickasaw National Recreation Area started a series of prescribed burns on Feb. 1, 2013. As of Friday, Feb. 22, approximately 2,180 acres have been treated with prescribed fire in the Five Lakes, Hunting, Point, and Golf Course areas. Fire managers plan to continue burning in the...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Brandon Andrews, 31, of Washington, D.C., was found guilty by a jury today of second-degree murder while armed and other charges in the killing of a man in Northeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Darlene Johnson, 49, Sheryl McPhail, 49, and Tracey Hill, 49, all of Philadelphia, were charged today in a four count information alleging that they engaged in a scheme to defraud the Internal Revenue Service with false claims of First Time Home Buyer Credits (FTHBCs), announced United...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announced that Mary Ann Richard, of Ft. Pierce, Florida, was sentenced today on charges of assisting and advising in the...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: BOISE - U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced that another member of a southwest Idaho meth trafficking conspiracy was sentenced today in federal court. The defendant, Juan Carlos Arredondo-Sicairos, 34, appeared before Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill at the federal courthouse in Boise to...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: On Feb. 22, 2013, Charles J. Brimm, 25, of Anna, IL, was sentenced in United States District Court in Benton on a one-count indictment charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: Court Orders $71,973 in Restitution. BOISE - Katrina Telleria, 35, of Boise, Idaho, was sentenced today to 12 months in prison for theft of government property, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Telleria to serve three years of supervised release...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich sentenced Raymond Roland Collette (40, St. Petersburg) last week to 14 years in federal prison for using his computer to solicit and arrange for sex with a four-year-old child. The court also ordered Collette to forfeit the computer he used to commit the offense. Collette pleaded guilty on Nov. 20, 2102.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - On Thursday, February 21st, Dr. Coburn sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, seeking more information regarding the potential impacts of sequestration on DHS.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - A former Waukegan grocer was sentenced to 2½ years in federal prison for defrauding government food stamp and nutrition programs of more than $844,000 over approximately two years during an undercover investigation. The defendant, KHALED SALEH, who, together with his wife and co-defendant...
By State Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement congratulating President Park Geun-hye on her inauguration as the first female President of the Republic of Korea...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS- On Friday, in federal court, a jury found a Twin Cities’ man guilty of conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine, and other controlled substances. Following a four-day trial, the jury convicted Eric Michelle Hunter, age 40, of Bloomington. He was found guilty of one count of conspiracy to...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - A former Illinois prison guard, Steven L. Carson, of Hillsboro, Ill., has entered pleas of guilty to charges that he sexually exploited a minor, and that he distributed and possessed images of child pornography. Carson, 46, appeared in federal court in Springfield on Feb. 21, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Byron Cudmore. Sentencing has been scheduled before U.S. District Judge Richard Mills on June 21, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a licensed professional counselor at a Carthage, Mo., clinic was sentenced in federal court today for her role in conspiracies to illegally distribute more than $1.5 million in prescription drugs and to engage in money laundering.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, on Friday discussed potential opportunities for U.S. natural gas exports help meet Japan’s growing energy needs with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other top Japanese officials during a dinner at the Japanese Ambassador’s residence in Washington.
