News from January 2013
By DOE Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - One of the world’s fastest, most energy-efficient supercomputers - expected to help energy researchers discover new materials, optimize designs and better predict operational characteristics - is up and running at the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) in Morgantown, W.Va.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. CINCINNATI - Glen Galemmo, 48, of Cincinnati, who owned Queen City Investments and other investment companies in the Cincinnati area, pleaded guilty in U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: RICHARD S. HARTUNIAN, United States Attorney, Northern District of New York announces that PAUL HILL (24, of Brooklyn, New York) was sentenced to 60 months imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Norman A. Mordue for Access Device Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft. Judge Mordue also ordered HILL to pay restitution in the amount of $297,554.00 to seven banks that had been defrauded by the credit card scam.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: Former Vice-President, Loan Underwriter And Personal Assistant Get Prison Time.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH -A resident of Tarentum, Pa., has pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of federal drug and firearms offenses, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By State Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the President signed into law legislation originally authored by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, which expands the State Department’s rewards program to target transnational organized criminals and the world’s worst human rights abusers. Rep. Royce issued the following statement upon President Obama signing the legislation into law...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces that Anthony Haynes (53, Seffner) today pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud affecting a financial institution. He faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison on each count. As part of the plea agreement, Haynes has agreed to a money judgment of at least $990,498.00, representing the proceeds of his conduct. Haynes was indicted on Sept. 21, 2012. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) today announced subcommittee staff directors for the 113th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: More than $4M in Cash, 89 Kilograms of Cocaine Seized from Organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: Adebowale Ayodeji Owoaje, 31, of Nigeria, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud in a scheme to defraud individuals who were selling items and applying for jobs on Craigslist.com. Using various aliases while he was located overseas, Owoaje used e-mail to reach an agreement with the individuals on the sale price of items or terms of employment, including funds for a purported bonus or training materials.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following statement regarding the announcement that the U.S. Trade Representative will enter into WTO negotiations regarding notification of an International Services Agreement (ISA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Cassandra Montrevel, 26, of Sacramento, CA, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, was sentenced to 70 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $326,00 by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James T. Hayes, Jr., the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (“ICE") Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI"), and Kenneth Siegler, Resident Agent-in-Charge...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A citizen of Guatemala, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on a charge of re-entry of an illegal alien, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine pled guilty Jan. 15, 2013, in federal court in Sioux City.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. -Maria M. Ulloa, 51, of Nashua, was convicted in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire of filing false, fictitious and fraudulent claims for tax refunds with the Internal Revenue Service following a five day jury trial, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty today for coercing and enticing a minor and possessing child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania David J. Hickton, and Special Agent in Charge John Kelleghan of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Philadelphia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: HONOLULU - While the iconic Haleakalā silversword plant made a strong recovery from early 20th-century threats, it has now entered a period of substantial climate-related decline. New research published this week warns that global warming may have severe consequences for the silversword in its native habitat.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: FLINT, Michigan - A Fenton podiatrist was sentenced in Bay City yesterday to 55 months in prison for his participation in a $1.6 million fraudulent medical billing scheme.
