News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today GARY JACKSON and WILLIAM WHEELER MATTHEWS, JR. pled guilty before United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan, to one count each of failing to make and maintain records related to firearms in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(m) and 923(g)(1)(A).
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 21, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today wrote to President Obama requesting that he nominate a permanent Inspector General for the Department of the Interior. Since the Department’s previous Inspector General Earl Devaney was appointed to a new position nearly four years ago, the Department’s Office of Inspector General (IG) has been run by Deputy Inspector General Mary Kendall, serving in an acting capacity.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - A federal grand jury in Dallas has indicted Kenneth Santodomingo, aka “Juan Goel Pagan" and “Juan Joel Pagan," 22, on one count of aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas. Santodomingo was arrested on Jan. 28, 2013 after a criminal complaint was filed for the offense, and he has been in custody since that time.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell sentenced three individuals for their roles in a conspiracy to defraud the government. Eliseo Dela Rosa (38, Orlando) was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison, Ana Torres (27, Kissimmee) was sentenced to two years' probation and Ada Lopez (39, Orlando) was sentenced to six months' home confinement as a condition of four years of probation. All three pleaded guilty on Nov. 16, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas --- Nathan Derek McGinn, 33, of Brownwood, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 188 months in federal prison and a 10-year term of supervised release, following his guilty plea in November 2012 to one count of receiving child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas. McGinn has been in custody since Sept. 17, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that charges have been filed against Cheryl Cobia and Sharieff Wilkins, both of Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a former correctional officer at the United States Penitentiary-Lewisburg pleaded guilty today to a charge of theft of government property in federal court in Williamsport before U.S. District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that VALENTINA ROMASHOVA, a/k/a “Tina Rome," was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to two years in prison for her participation in a $57 million fraud scheme that targeted programs administered by the...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: In-home care operator admits to altering and falsifying company records.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Twelve suspected members of a methamphetamine and cocaine trafficking ring were arrested early Wednesday and today at the culmination of a yearlong investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Major Mexican Traffickers’ Strike Force. All but two of the defendants appeared...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOE 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 DOE Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement regarding the Obama administration’s release of the final record of decision for the land management plan of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: Defendant Was A Fugitive For More Than A Decade.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: WILMINGTON - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court yesterday in Wilmington, North Carolina, SHOUNTARIO DEVON WALKER, 30, of Selma, North Carolina, was sentenced by the Honorable James C. Fox to 180 months’ imprisonment for his role in a drug trafficking operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - The director of operations at a warehouse for a non-profit organization was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for defrauding the charity of $101,927, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce 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: ALBUQUERQUE - Hak Ghun, 62, of Durango, Colo., pled guilty this morning to a federal tax evasion charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Under the terms of the plea agreement, Ghun will be sentenced to prison for a period of 12 to 18 months. He also will be required to pay $249,567 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: Hammond, Indiana- The United States Attorney’s Office announced that the following Indictments were returned on Feb. 21, 2013.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) today asked acting Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Bob Perciasepe, to disclose the EPA's justification of preemptively vetoing the Pebble Mine Project, a copper and gold mining project in Bristol Bay, Alaska.
