News from February 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today the establishment of a National Commission on Forensic Science as part of a new initiative to strengthen and enhance the practice of forensic science.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two top House Democrats are again introducing legislation that would help hand back control of investments in oil and other energy commodities to airlines, trucking companies and other legitimate investors, and help dull the expensive impacts speculators are having on our oil and other energy...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) today issued the following statement regarding the plan issued by Senate Democrats to address the across-the-board spending cuts-or sequester-that will take effect on March 1. The plan recommends $27.5 billion in cuts from the agriculture sector and another $27.5 billion in defense savings.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Kenneth A. Tholin and Enrique Quiles Sr., pleaded guilty Wednesday to a conspiracy to unlawfully and willfully convert to their own use, or the use of another, money from an employee benefit plan, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced that David Phillip Foley, (age: 51) formerly of Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, was sentenced this morning to a term of imprisonment of 336 months, followed by ten years of supervised release. The 28-year term of imprisonment will run consecutively to and...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A man has been charged with selling goods with counterfeit trademarks from Ralph Lauren, Nike and other well known names at his store in Kansas City, Kan., U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By State Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed, by a vote of 412 to 2, a bipartisan resolution condemning North Korea (H. Res. 65) for its Tuesday nuclear test, for flagrant and repeated violations of multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions, and for its repeated provocations that threaten international peace and stability.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota man was indicted by a federal grand jury for escaping from the Community Alternatives of the Black Hills, where he was serving the remainder of a federal sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Abraham Yellow Horse, 24, of Pine Ridge, South Dakota appeared before Chief U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken on February 4, 2013 and pled guilty to a charge of Escape from Custody. The maximum penalty upon conviction is 5 years’ imprisonment and/or 3 years’ supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Kevin Michael McGinty, 25, of Philadelphia, was sentenced yesterday to the statutory maximum sentence of 60 months in prison for the illegal straw purchase of firearms. McGinty made a false statement when he certified that he was the actual buyer of five firearms from Delia’s Gun Shop, 6104 Torresdale Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The purchases were made on Feb. 10, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: Brandon Phinney, age 27, of Clear Lake, Iowa, has been indicted on federal child pornography charges. The charges are contained in an Indictment unsealed Feb. 13, 2013, in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - According to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Providence today, Justin L. Worley, 34, has agreed to plead guilty in federal court to robbing eight banks in Rhode Island and one in Massachusetts, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Royal Gorge Field Office is issuing final supplementary rules for the Arkansas River Travel Management Plan area. The rules were published in the Federal Register on Feb. 13, and become effective March 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: ROCKFORD - The former comptroller of the City of Dixon, Ill., RITA A. CRUNDWELL, was sentenced today to 19 years and 7 months, nearly the 20-year maximum, in federal prison for stealing $53.7 million from the city over two decades. Crundwell was taken into custody to immediately begin her sentence, which was imposed by U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard in Federal Court in Rockford.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Edison cardiologist today admitted referring patients for diagnostic testing in exchange for cash kickbacks as part of a cash-for-patients scheme with a diagnostic facility in Orange, N.J., U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of using a social security number assigned to another and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: Highlights new Microloan Program and credit for socially-disadvantaged producers SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Feb. 14, 2013—Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack talked with veterans, young, beginning and socially-disadvantaged producers today at a community center in San Antonio, Texas, about USDA's work to expand ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: Transocean Deepwater Inc. pleaded guilty today to a violation of the Clean Water Act (CWA) for its illegal conduct leading to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, and was sentenced to pay $400 million in criminal fines and penalties, Attorney General Holder announced today. In total, the amount of fines ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: Gilbert T. Lopez Jr., the former chief accounting officer of Stanford Financial Group Company, and Mark J. Kuhrt, the former global controller of Stanford Financial Group Global Management, were each sentenced today to 20 years in prison for their roles in helping Robert Allen Stanford perpetrate a fraud scheme involving Stanford International Bank (SIB). Both were convicted by a Houston federal jury on Nov. 19, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: David Hausman, an antiques dealer in Manhattan, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to six months in jail for obstruction of justice and creating false records in connection with illegal rhinoceros horn trafficking, announced Ignacia S. Moreno, Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Department of Justice, and Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
