News from February 2013
By DOL Newswire | Feb 13, 2013
News Release: The House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions today held a hearing to examine the future of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in the wake the recent Noel Canning vs. NLRB case.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Michael Brier, owner of the tax preparation firm Refunds Now Inc., based in Providence, R.I., pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court in Providence to violating a federal court order permanently barring him from preparing tax returns for others. He also pleaded guilty to underreporting more than $1.1 million dollars in income between 2004 and 2009, and failing to pay nearly $400,000 in federal taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2013
News Release: Deiby Ovalle-Pinto, 29, of Guatemala, was charged today by Indictment with illegal re-entry after deportation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about February 6, 2013, Ovalle-Pinto, an alien, and native and citizen of Guatemala, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about June 19, 2003.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2013
News Release: LAKEWOOD, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management named Katie Stevens as Colorado's Grand Junction Field Manager. Katie has been BLM's National Conservation Area (NCA) Manager for McInnis Canyons since November 2008.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2013
News Release: Couple Engaged In Elaborate Fraud To Collect Housing, Food And Medical Benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Union County, N.J., man employed by the Westfield, N.J., branch of TD Bank was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for his role in a plan to rob the bank, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2013
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Felix Urena, 29, of Manchester, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 5 months imprisonment and three years of supervised release, which includes 5 months of electronic monitoring, after pleading guilty to three counts of distribution of the controlled substance- crack cocaine, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2013
News Release: A 42-year-old Whatcom County resident was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 14 years in prison and five years of supervised release for two counts of Aggravated Sexual Abuse, announced U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. DAVID ALLEN JAMES is a Lummi Tribal member, and the crimes occurred...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) announced the formation of 11 separate Ways and Means Tax Reform Working Groups.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2013
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, KY - A federal grand jury meeting in Bowling Green, Kentucky has charged a Henderson, Kentucky man with six counts of bank robbery, today announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Three people have been charged this week in Newark, Miami and New York City with wildlife smuggling and related charges for their alleged roles in an international rhino horn smuggling ring, the Department of Justice announced today. The arrests and charges are the result of “Operation Crash,"...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2013
News Release: To Federal Cocaine Trafficking Charges. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a second woman from Carbon County pleaded guilty today before Senior United States District Judge Edwin M. Kosik to the charge of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. According...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 13, 2013
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced the first step in the development of a Cybersecurity Framework, which will be a set of voluntary standards and best practices to guide industry in reducing cyber risks to the networks and computers that are vital to the nation's economy, security and daily life.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces that Carlista Hawls pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service, wire fraud, and theft of government funds and one count of aggravated identity theft. Hawls faces a maximum penalty of 5 years in federal prison for the conspiracy charge and a consecutive 2-year mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for the aggravated identity theft charge.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 13, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the impact the upcoming budget sequester may have on the Department of Homeland Security and its components. Recently, Ranking Member Thompson wrote a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano asking for more information on this matter. The letter and its response are attached below.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2013
News Release: GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howardsentenced JAMES ARTHUR ACKLIN, JR., 21, of Greenville, North Carolina, to 228 months imprisonment and 5 years of supervised release. ACKLIN was also ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2013
News Release: A superseding indictment was filed adding an additional charge of being a felon in possession against Raymone “Ramone" Clements, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Vincent P. Mangione,49 of North Tonawanda, N.Y., who was convicted of tax evasion and bank fraud, was sentenced to 30 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $800,000 in restitution to the victims by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 13, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Sen. Tom Harkin, Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and Rep. George Miller (D-CA), Senior Democrat and former chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s call for an...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - Two Topeka men have been indicted on a federal carjacking charge, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
