News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - Two Lawrence men were arrested today for stealing more than $210,000 in U.S. Treasury tax refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Pablo Cerda, 36, and Nicolas Sanchez-Reyes, 50, have been convicted for their roles in a conspiracy to export weapons to Mexico destined for Los Zetas drug trafficking organization, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Javier F. Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. The two Laredoans both entered pleas to one count of conspiracy to export arms.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2013
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee that oversees the Department of Treasury, issued the following statement after President Obama nominated Jacob Lew to serve as Treasury Secretary replacing Tim Geithner...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2013
News Release: - Obtained illegal prescription pain pills from Florida “pill mills".
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2013
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that a Raleigh County man was sentenced (Jan. 10) to one year in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release for burglary and aiding and abetting the burglary of a federal post office. Timothy Taylor, 31, of Beckley, was previously...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim McDermott (D-WA) joined Reps. Doc Hastings (R-WA) and Dave Reichert (R-WA) to applaud the United States Trade Representative for requesting consultations at the World Trade Organization with Indonesia over regulations impacting the export of fresh fruit and vegetables from the U.S. to Indonesia. This request represents the first stage in the formal World Trade Organization dispute resolution process.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2013
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Dec. 28, 2012, a jury in the Russian Federation Court for the Moscow Region found Yuri Solovyev, 44, guilty of the July 2002 murders of his roommates Vladimir Yemelyanov and Sufiya Arslanova in Gatlinburg, Tenn., where they all three worked on seasonal tourist visas. Solovyev is expected to be sentenced within the coming weeks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2013
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Donald J. Cazayoux, Jr., announced that RAYMOND L. BEAVERS, age 48, of Denham Springs, Louisiana, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James J. Brady to serve twelve months and one day in federal prison. BEAVERS was also ordered to pay $127,600 in restitution to the United States Coast Guard, and ordered to forfeit an additional $69,637.15 as proceeds of his offenses.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, provided the following remarks today at a field hearing held by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on the mortgage policy in Baltimore, Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Pablo Cerda, 36, and Nicolas Sanchez-Reyes, 50, have been convicted for their roles in a conspiracy to export weapons to Mexico destined for Los Zetas drug trafficking organization, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. The two Laredoans both entered pleas to one count of conspiracy to export arms.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2013
News Release: Wright Brothers National Memorial will be joining national park sites across the country in celebrating the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday by waiving entrance fees on Jan. 21, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2013
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Daniel Quilochin Fry, age 21, of Omak, Washington, was sentenced today for two domestic violence-related crimes occurring on the Colville Indian Reservation. United States District Judge Lonny R. Suko sentenced Fry to 108 months in Federal prison, to be followed by 36 months of court supervision upon release from custody.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2013
News Release: Dear Mr. Duke: We are writing regarding new allegations that Wal-Mart systematically bribed officials throughout Mexico in order to evade zoning, environmental, and permitting laws at the company's Bodega Aurrera store in Teotihuacan, Mexico. We are concerned that your company's public statements that...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2013
News Release: WOODBRIDGE, VA-On Monday, Jan. 14, 2013, Reps. Gerry Connolly and Elijah E. Cummings, top Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, will host a forum to examine the challenges voters faced in the 2012 election and to discuss needed election reforms. This fact-gathering panel...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Yesterday in federal court, an Apple Valley woman was charged with defrauding both her employer and Medica. On January 9, 2012, Lori Jo Mueller, age 48, was charged via an Information with one count of wire fraud and one count of health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2013
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2013
News Release: Commissioner Michael L. Connor is proud to announce Karla Smiley will be assuming the responsibilities of the Assistant Director of Information Resources (ADIR) effective next week. Smiley, the former Bureau Procurement Chief for Reclamation will be responsible for providing information management resources to Reclamation and will serve as a liaison to the Department of the Interior as it progresses through its Information Technology Transformation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Torano Spencer, 37, of Lockport, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge William M. Skretny to conspiracy to distribute cocaine and cocaine base. The drug conspiracy charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a $1,000,000 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2013
News Release: Billy Joe Floyd Coy, 60, of Cody, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on January 4, 2013, for making a false statement to a National Forest Service Special Agent and for conducting unauthorized work activities and services in a National Forest. Coy was arrested in Cheyenne.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2013
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that a Nicholas County woman was sentenced (Jan. 10) to two years in federal prison for conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine. Jennifer Curry, 37, of Nicholas County, W.Va., previously pleaded guilty in May. The defendant admitted that on...
