News from January 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: With the launch of the 2013 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) application process, the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program is ready to help U.S. organizations usher in a quality New Year filled with innovation, improvement and visionary leadership.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: US Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Little Eagle man convicted of Domestic Assault by Habitual Offender was sentenced on January 4, 2013, by US District Judge Charles B. Kornmann. Arthur Taken Alive, age 45, was sentenced to 18 months in custody, 4 years of supervised release, $1,987.04 in restitution, and a $100 special assessment.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, will speak Thursday morning at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) public field hearing on mortgage policy.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: Two media lists of top science stories of 2012 highlight cosmology discoveries that relied on contributions from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - This morning a federal judge sentenced Jolene Calderon, 35, of Los Lunas, N.M., to a 15-month term of imprisonment for her conviction on bank fraud and embezzlement in connection with health care charges. Calderon will be on supervised release for five years after completing her prison sentence. She also was ordered to pay $86,000.85 in restitution to the victims of her criminal conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that former New York City Council Member LARRY SEABROOK, who represented the 12th Council District in the Bronx, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to five years in prison after being convicted on nine counts for public corruption crimes in a July 2012 jury trial. SEABROOK was sentenced by Federal District Judge Deborah A. Batts, who also presided over his trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that the United States Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated the convictions of two men previously acquitted of Commercial Sex Trafficking. The Court reinstated the convictions of Daron Jungers, age, 42, of Sioux City, Iowa, and Ronald Bonestroo, age 59, of Sioux Falls, and has ordered the district court to proceed with sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: A grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging Rayvon McGhee, age 19, of Cleveland, with carjacking and using a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - On Monday, January 7, 2013, U.S. District Judge Owen M. Panner sentenced David Maurice Garrick, 43, of Grants Pass, Oregon, to 77 months in federal prison based on his previous guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: “Councilman Larry Seabrook sacrificed the public trust on the altar of greed. He was a flagrant and serial abuser of City Council discretionary funds in a far too familiar New York tale of corruption. Today’s sentence finally vindicates the interests of the constituents whose trust he so casually violated...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is now seeking public comment on the preliminary Environmental Assessment for a natural gas exploratory project near DeBeque.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: SALIDA, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public input on recreational use in the Methodist Mountain and Arkansas Hills areas near Salida, so the agency can analyze three Special Recreation Permit applications for those areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: Five California residents were charged in a three-count federal indictment filed in Cleveland related to a conspiracy to bring multiple kilograms of cocaine to the Cleveland area, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A former Pennsville, N.J., police officer today admitted obstructing the FBI’s investigation of his alleged possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Former Oklahoma Senate President Pro Tem MICHAEL STEVEN MORGAN, 57, of Stillwater, Oklahoma, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Robin J. Cauthron to serve five years’ probation for bribery, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Mexican national Pedro Morales-Hidalgo, 43, has pleaded guilty to failing to heave to a Coast Guard vessel, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today along with Rear Admiral Roy Nash, Commander, Eighth Coast Guard District.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Domingo Quesada-Hernandez, 43, of Brownsville, has been convicted of bulk cash smuggling, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Rene Cardenas, 36, of Miami, Fla. pleaded guilty for his role in a conspiracy to transport five kilograms or more of cocaine, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Javier F. Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Xiang Li, age 36, of Chengdu, China, pled guilty late yesterday to one count each of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, for his role in operating a website used to distribute over $100 million worth of pirated software around the...
