News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - A 76-count indictment was unsealed yesterday charging four former officials of the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) and a related company with numerous charges relating to salmonella-tainted peanuts and peanut products, the Justice Department announced today. Stewart Parnell, 58, of Lynchburg...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 21, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today released the following statement after the Department of the Interior finalized plans to lock up the majority of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) from energy production.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Western District of Michigan. Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. Case Results in Conviction of Three Individuals and Resolves Three Bank Robberies in Kalamazoo and an Attempted Bank Robbery in Flint. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - LaTasha Ann Nichols, 28, of Flint, Michigan...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that William Henry Pittman, 67, of Mobile, was sentenced today for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Pittman was sentenced to ten months in prison and fined $10,000 for possession of a firearm after being convicted in 1989 of transportation of a minor for sexual purposes and distribution of a controlled substance to a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Mehdi Babul (58) and Isam Nasser (30) with one count each of conspiracy to defraud the United States and to commit wire fraud, five counts of wire fraud, and five counts of food stamp fraud. If...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: LUIS MISAEL MADRID-ROMERO, age 42, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced today in federal court by U. S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier to forty-six (46) months imprisonment, announced U. S. Attorney Dana Boente. In addition to the term of imprisonment, Judge Barbier ordered that MADRID be placed...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: Aztec, NM - On Tuesday, Feb. 19, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced $12.5 million in grants to improve access to America's national parks, forests, and wildlife refuges. A new pedestrian and bicycle trail planned in a partnership of Aztec Ruins National Monument and the City of Aztec...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: Rock Island, Ill. - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging a Henry county man, Steven D. Ford, 27, of Cambridge, Ill., with production and possession of child pornography. Ford was previously arrested and charged by federal criminal complaint in July 2012. Ford has remained in federal...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Florida- Watch history come to life at Everglades National Park's third annual Vintage Day celebration on Saturday, March 2, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. This year's theme, "The Battle to Preserve Paradise," explores the rich stories of the Everglades during the first half of the twentieth century. Park admission at the Homestead entrance will be waived for the day and all activities are free of charge for the whole family.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Keith Milke, the Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS"), announced today that JAMES TAGLIAFERRI, who managed and controlled TAG Virgin Islands, Inc. (“TAG"), an SEC-registered...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. Omar Yahya, 56, formerly known as Darnell Bernard Watts, was sentenced to 12 months one day in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his role in a conspiracy to use a Dayton grocery store to launder money and defraud the Supplemental Nutrition...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: Federal, state and local authorities have arrested 19 individuals in connection with a cocaine distribution and bulk cash smuggling conspiracy based in Austin announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Javier Pena, Houston Division, and Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw. A list of the arrested defendants is below.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Christopher A. Crofts announced today that on Feb. 20, 2013, Russell Hill, a 19-year-old enrolled Eastern Shoshone from the Wind River Indian Reservation, appeared in Federal District Court for sentencing before United States District Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on a single count...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. COLUMBUS - Justin S. Mote, 33, of Marysville pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to one count of using the internet to coerce a minor to engage in...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
Release: WASHINGTON, DC, Feb. 21, 2013 - Agriculture Under Secretary Kevin Concannon today announced tough new measures as a part of USDA’s ongoing effort to ensure integrity in the nation’s nutrition safety net, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: Peoria, Ill. - A federal grand jury today returned an indictment charging a Peoria, Ill., teacher with enticement of a minor. Amanda May Ludwig, 28, a teacher at Manual High School in Peoria, Ill., was previously arrested and charged with the offense in a federal criminal complaint filed on Feb. 4, 2013.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), the top Republican of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today said that the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee report on the Interior Department's Acting Inspector General Mary Kendall warrants attention.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the ongoing review by the House Energy and Commerce Committee into mental health issues raised by the Newtown tragedy, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) and Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO) today announced that the subcommittee has scheduled a forum with leading national experts on March 5, 2013, to explore issues related to severe mental illness and violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: John W. Hufgard was sentenced to 18 months of incarceration and ordered to pay restitution of $397,659, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: Climbing routes on cliffs used by nesting Peregrine Falcons in Zion National Park will be temporarily closed beginning March 1, 2013, in order to protect the nesting success of this bird which is in recovery from "endangered species" status. The closing date is based on analysis of information collected from 2001-2012 regarding the peregrines' arrival time to their nesting cliffs in the park.
