News from January 2013

By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today announced personnel changes on her Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee staff.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2013
News Release: A Perry County man made his initial appearance in federal court on January 7, 2013, on a one-count superseding indictment charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - Corey Lidell, a/k/a “Coop," 32, of Cordova, TN, was sentenced to 264 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute more than seven kilograms of cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2013
News Release: Also Convicted of Failing to Pay More Than $250,000 in Taxes.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2013
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces that Edwin Carroll Snyder (39, Fort Myers) was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison for distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Dracut man was convicted today of defrauding the Internal Revenue Service of approximately $2 million by lying on corporate tax forms about how many workers he employed.

By Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2013
News Release: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will be observing Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday on Monday, Jan. 21, by authorizing free backcountry camping permits and one night of free camping at Alum Ford Campground.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2013
News Release: Las Vegas, Nev. - A man who submitted false and fraudulent federal tax returns for himself and others causing hundreds of thousands of dollars of losses to the IRS, was sentenced today to 2½ years in prison, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2013
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i - A 43-year old Hilo man was found dead in his vehicle on Highway 11 in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park on Sat., Jan. 12.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a 39-year-old St. Paul man was sentenced for filing a false insurance claim for $250,000. United States District Court Judge Susan Richard Nelson sentenced Jason William Sheedy to three years of probation on one count of wire fraud in connection...

By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2013
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host a workshop to discuss proposed supplements to the biometric data format standard that support voice recognition, dental and oral data, disaster victim identification and special data needs for mobile ID applications. The ANSI NIST-ITL Standard Workshop 2013 will meet Jan. 28-30, 2013, at the NIST Gaithersburg, Md., campus.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that Tyrone L. Adams and Cara L. Moss pled guilty in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis on Jan. 14, 2013, to distributing the heroin which caused the death of Leonard O. Hormann, III, in Alton on Aug. 20, 2012.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2013
News Release: Defendant Had More than 3000 Images and Eight Videos of Child Porn.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Late last week in federal court, a 51-year-old Minneapolis man pleaded guilty to robbing the TCF Bank on West Lake Street in Minneapolis. He also admitted robbing three other banks. On Jan. 11, 2013, Phillip Leo Nietz specifically pleaded guilty to one count of bank robbery. Nietz, who was indicted on Oct. 10, 2012, entered his plea before United States District Court Judge Patrick J. Schiltz.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A “keyholder" who oversaw the criminal activities of the Azusa 13 street gang and its long-running plot to violate the civil rights of African-Americans in the City of Azusa was sentenced late this afternoon to 235 months in federal prison.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2013
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2013
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Newark, N.J., men are expected to appear in federal court this afternoon after being charged with armed robbery of the Golden Palace jewelry store in Orange, N.J., U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2013
News Release: Richard S. Hartunian, United States Attorney, Northern District of New York, announced that JAMES L. TABOLT, JR., age 40, of Tupper Lake, New York was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Albany today in connection with his guilty plea on Sept. 13, 2012 to possession of child pornography. In entering...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 45-year-old career criminal was sentenced for possessing a nine-millimeter pistol. United States District Court Judge Joan N. Ericksen sentenced Michael Dennis Stanke, of Lino Lakes, to 180 months in prison on one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Stanke was indicted on June 11, 2012, and pleaded guilty on August 9, 2012.