News from February 2013
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: NPS RELEASES ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR PROPOSED FLOW REGULATION IN LOWER LAS VEGAS WASH.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: Washington - At a Senate Finance Committee hearing today, Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) stressed the need to promote greater efficiency in health care and increased coordination of patient care in an effort to preserve Medicare and Medicaid. Senator Baucus reviewed the progress being made since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to move Medicare and Medicaid away from wasteful payment systems to save taxpayer dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging two Ohio men and a Youngstown-based company each with one count of violating the Clean Water Act, said Steven M. Dettelbach, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Mercer County, N.J., man was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for robbing a bank and returning nine months later to rob the same bank, carjacking a vehicle and shooting two people in the course of that conduct, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: Jorge Arturo Martinez-Gaeta, 35, of Mexico, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on Feb. 28, 2013, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Martinez-Gaeta was arrested in Douglas, Wyoming. He received five months of imprisonment, was ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: Malik Burton, 21, Kyle Gumbs, 20, and Rayvaughan White, 21, all of Freeport, NY, were charged today by indictment with a counterfeiting scheme in which they allegedly passed counterfeit $100 bills at shopping centers and other retail establishments in Bucks County, announced United States Attorney Zane...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: Victor Castaneda, 39, a citizen of Mexico, who most recently resided in Madison, Illinois, entered a plea of guilty in federal court on Feb. 26, 2013, to Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with the Intent to Distribute Cocaine (Count 1); Entry Into the United States Without Inspection (Count 4);...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Jorge Castenada, 38, of Laredo, has been sentenced to total of 63 months following his conviction of alien smuggling, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Jorge Castenada pleaded guilty Oct. 22, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Essex County, N.J., man today admitted transporting explosive chemicals in a piece of polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, pipe to Pennsylvania without a federal license or permit, U. S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces that Hosmel Barona-Cardona (41, Miami) pleaded guilty to access device fraud. Barona-Cardona faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a Pelham man to three years and one month in prison for laundering money in a scheme with his daughter that collected more than $400,000 for expenses of a lawsuit that never existed, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, Alabama Securities Commission Director Joseph P. Borg, IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Veronica Hyman-Pillot, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 123,000 metric tons of soybeans to China during the 2013/2014 marketing year.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: On Saturday, May 4th at 10:00 am, Hopewell Culture National Historical Park will co-host a benefit 5k run at Seip Earthworks. The run will begin at the Paint Valley Local Schools parking lot (next to Seip Earthworks) and then weave through Seip Earthworks. Entry fee is $20.00 with the proceeds going...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: Peter J. Smith, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and Donald Robinson, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Philadelphia Field Division jointly announced today that U.S. Middle District Court Judge John E. Jones, III, has adopted the revocation of the Federal Firearms License (FFL) of Scott W. Taylor, d/b/a Taylor’s Trading Post, located in Biglerville, Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a registered nurse, formerly of Anchorage, and a recently disbarred California attorney were indicted by the federal grand jury in Anchorage, Alaska, of devising a scheme to obtain in excess of $2 million between May 2007 and August 2009 from the Trusts of Juanita Gielarwoski, now deceased.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: A Canton man was indicted on three counts related to the distribution of Oxycodone, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES/SPOKANE, Wash. - Early this morning, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Los Angeles Police Department, in conjunction with the Spokane Regional Drug Task (SRDTF), led a large-scale enforcement action targeting a criminal organization spanning from Los Angeles to Eastern Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on Feb. 28, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, TRAVIS BIRDINGROUND, a 44-year-old resident of Hardin, appeared for sentencing. BIRDINGROUND was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES/SPOKANE, WA (Feb 28)- Early this morning, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Los Angeles Police Department, in conjunction with the Spokane Regional Drug Task Force (SRDTF), led a large-scale enforcement action targeting a criminal organization spanning from Los Angeles to Eastern...
