News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted a former Town Creek police officer for violating an individual’s civil rights during the course of an arrest, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez, chief of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - George L. Beck, Jr., United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, Veronica Hyman-Pillot, Internal Revenue Special Agent in Charge, and Clayton Slay, U.S. Secret Service Resident Agent in Charge, will hold a press conference to announce the government’s continued crackdown...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: Allegedly Used His Employment With a Residential Mental Health Program To Steal Identity Information of Clients to Open Fraudulent Bank Accounts for Personal Use.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Ruth Jackson pled guilty to embezzling over $40,000 by diverting checks and funds payable to The Flood Team.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A35-year-old Zwolle, LA man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, today reintroduced an updated version of their legislation to ensure the rights of recreational hunters, fishermen, and shooters on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Forest Service lands.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) issued the following statements today after the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative notified Congress that the Administration intends in 90 days to initiate negotiation of an International Services Agreement (ISA), which will be open to any member of the World Trade Organization that is willing to meet the ISA’s high standards.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement after receiving notice from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that it will conduct a program evaluation of the Transportation Security Administration...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Norma Alicia Gallegos, 30, and her husband Jose Carlos Aguilar, 32, have been sentenced for their roles in a large-scale international cocaine trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Gallegos aka “La Muchacha" and Aguilar, both of Harlingen, entered pleas of guilty Feb. 28, 2012, to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on Jan. 29, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, FREDERICK PAUL DEPUTEE, JR., a 25-year-old resident of Hardin and an enrolled member of the Crow Tribe, pled guilty to theft from an Indian organization. Sentencing has been set for May 1, 2013. He is currently released on special conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: TYLER, TX - A 54-year-old Carrollton, Texas, man has been sentenced to federal prison for a counterfeiting conspiracy in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement after the President signed into law the “Protect our Kids Act of 2012," H.R. 6655. The legislation, coauthored by Chairman Camp, establishes a commission to study data on child fatalities from abuse and neglect,...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Joseph McIntyre, 38, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to six months incarceration for his role in a conspiracy to illegally distribute anabolic steroids. McIntyre, a former Philadelphia Police Officer, was charged in an indictment that named 14 others including fellow officers Keith...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on Jan. 29, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, CHARLES SPOTTED-ELK BOOTH, JR., a 26-year-old resident of Lame Deer, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: Bipartisan leaders on the U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee responded today to three reports on the nation’s multiemployer pension system. The reports provide a broad examination of the challenges facing the pension system responsible for providing retirement benefits to more than 10 million individuals.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Richard Minicozzi, M.D., 79, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to seven years in prison for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and 17 counts of distribution of controlled substances for running a pill mill out of his office located at 731 Morris Street in Philadelphia. Minicozzi...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: The application deadline for two research fellowships available to individuals wishing to conduct research in Denali National Park and Preserve and other national parks in Alaska is Friday, Feb. 15, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that a Charleston man pleaded guilty in federal court to possession of child pornography. Jonathan Douglas Layne, 54, admitted that on Feb. 21, 2008, he knowingly possessed on his computer more than 600 images and videos depicting minors...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Earlier today a federal judge in Las Cruces, N.M., sentenced Adrian Gutierrez, 33, of Artesia, N.M., to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of firearms. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales and Thomas G. Atteberry, Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Despite having no authority to do so under ObamaCare, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a final rule in May 2012 to extend eligibility for health insurance subsidies to people enrolled in exchanges established and run by the federal government.
