News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2013
News Release: Cases Related to Ongoing Aryan Knights Investigation.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 14, 2013
News Release: Amino acids in orange juice might reveal secrets to the successful attack strategy of the plant pathogen that causes citrus greening disease, also known as Huanglongbing or HLB. Studies of these amino acids by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) chemist Andrew P. Breksa III and University of California-Davis...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2013
News Release: DAYTON ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL SENTENCED TO MORE THAN 29 YEARS IN PRISON.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2013
News Release: San Juan Islanders and northwest Washington citizens will have an opportunity to provide feedback on the future management of the American Camp prairie during an "alternatives" workshop scheduled 6 to 8 p.m., Tuesday January 15 at the Mullis Senior Center.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2013
News Release: Women's Rights National Historical Park continues its second annual Winter Film Festival by showing the documentary film Thomas Jefferson on Friday, Jan. 18, and Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., Jan. 11, 2013—Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack visited a state-of-the-art bioindustrial facility at Renmatix today, where he announced $25 million to fund research and development of next-generation renewable energy and high-value biobased products from a variety of biomass sources.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced that yesterday it reached an agreement with Illinois officials to help ensure that military service members, their family members and other U.S. citizens living overseas have an opportunity to participate fully in the upcoming Feb. 26, 2013, special primary election, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Virginia man was sentenced today in federal court to serve one year and one day in prison for selling counterfeit General Motors (GM) automotive diagnostic devices used by mechanics to identify problems with and assure the safety of motor vehicles, announced Assistant Attorney General ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON – A New Zealand fishing company that owned and operated the tuna fishing vessel San Nikunau, and a former chief engineer on the ship, were sentenced in federal court today for environmental crimes and obstruction of justice, announced Assistant Attorney General Ignacia S. Moreno of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ronald C. Machen Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON – Roland Kaufmann, CEO of Axius Inc., pleaded guilty today in Brooklyn for conspiring to bribe stock brokers, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Loretta E. Lynch. Kaufmann, 60, a Swiss citizen, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John Gleeson in the Eastern District of New York to one count of conspiracy to violate the Travel Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has sued a Kissimmee, Fla., tax return preparer, seeking to bar him permanently from preparing federal tax returns for others. The civil injunction suit, filed in Orlando, Fla., with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, alleges that ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON – A former Chicago police officer and two members of the Latin Kings street gang were sentenced this week in Indiana to serve prison time for their roles in a racketeering conspiracy and other related charges, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney David Capp of the Northern District of Indiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: Husband and wife John and Sandra Cote, both of Brooklyn, Conn., were arrested on tax charges, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. On Dec. 18, 2012, a federal grand jury in New Haven, Conn., returned an indictment charging the Cotes with conspiracy to defraud the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: Craig Billings, 39, a former deputy sheriff with the Murray County Sheriff’s Office in Sulphur, Okla., pleaded guilty today in federal court to a one-count information charging him with Deprivation of Rights for using unreasonable force and violating the civil rights of an individual who was being booked ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that a settlement has been reached with David Hamilton for violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. Under the terms of the agreement Hamilton will pay $2,500 in compensatory damages to the victim of Hamilton’s use of force outside the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division Kathryn Keneally, U.S. Attorney for the District of Idaho Wendy J. Olson and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today that a Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, jury convicted Michael George Fitzpatrick, 51, of Hope, Idaho, of two counts of income tax evasion ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: Today, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana entered an order granting the joint motion of the United States and the city of New Orleans to enter the consent decree regarding the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD). This order is a critical milestone in reforming the long-troubled ...
By Commerce News Now | Jan 11, 2013
News Release: Acting U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank today thanked Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) on his years of important work to support American businesses and his tremendous service as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
By State News Post | Jan 11, 2013
The US State Department published a one page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
