News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Delmont, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to five years probation with six months home detention and restitution of $62,360.24 on his conviction of theft of government property, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former International Longshoremen’s Association (“ILA") member was sentenced to 30 months in prison today for conspiring to extort ILA Local 1235 longshoremen on the New Jersey piers for Christmastime tribute payments, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and Eastern District of New York U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch announced.
By State Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement regarding the Senate’s confirmation of John Kerry as Secretary of State...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A48-year-old Shreveport, LA man has been sentenced for federal drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: Press Conference - Former Michigan Supreme Court Justice Diane M. Hathaway.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released a financial products discussion draft as part of the Committee’s broader effort on comprehensive tax reform that significantly lowers rates. The proposal seeks to modernize tax rules to minimize Wall Street’s ability...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today called on the Social Security Administration (SSA) to work with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to reduce the dramatic backlog in veterans’ disability claims. The senators wrote a letter to SSA in response to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, which found SSA’s delays are major contributors to the backlog.
By State Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chairman of the Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations Subcommittee and Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX), Chairman of the Terrorism, Nonproliferation,...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A New York man was sentenced today in connection with a scheme to defraud a Massachusetts man of his Hyannis waterfront property.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - The Congress has sent legislation sponsored by U.S. Rep. Nick J. Rahall (D-W.Va.) to be signed into law by the President that will require FEMA to reassess the guidelines used to evaluate requests for Individual Assistance following disasters such as last year’s Derecho.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A Todd County, Kentucky woman was sentenced to 41 months in prison followed by a 3 year period of supervised release today, by Senior Judge Thomas B. Russell, for filing a false income tax return with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), aiding and assisting in the preparation of false income tax returns filed with the IRS, and identity theft, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: Raleigh - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today JULIO ARREOLA, 36, of Camp Lejuene, North Carolinapled guilty before Senior United States District Judge James C. Fox to demanding and seeking a bribe in violations of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 201(b)(2)(A) and (B).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted a Hayden woman for embezzling from the Warrior bank where she worked, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Roy Sexton.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: - Defendants Attempted to Ship Weapons and Money from the United States to Iraqi Insurgents.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte sentenced Diane Michelle Pimble, age 41, of Washington, D.C., today to 14 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for interstate transportation of stolen money and tax evasion. Judge Messitte also ordered Pimble to pay restitution of $152,918.03 to her employer and $26,697 to the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Deandre Swann, 25, of Hyattsville, Md., was sentenced today to four years and nine months in prison for robbing a man in broad daylight last summer in Northwest Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) has moved forward to remove the Liberty Island Shuttle Dock, which is a service dock used for equipment and emergency transport access to Liberty Island and the Statue of Liberty National Monument. This 7,060-square-foot timber dock was assessed as a total loss and hazard to navigation as a result of Hurricane Sandy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Federal prosecutors today charged the CEO of Adams Produce Company with fraud against the company, failure to report a felony against the government and failure to file federal income tax returns, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr. and IRS Criminal Investigation Division Acting Special Agent in Charge Veronica Hyman-Pillot.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - An Orange County, Va., man was sentenced today to serve 168 months in prison following his March 2011 guilty plea to child pornography charges that originated in three different federal districts.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2013
News Release: Fire managers at Rocky Mountain National Park plan to take advantage of potential upcoming winter weather conditions to burn piles of slash. Approximately 1,500 piles are from several hazard fuels and hazard tree mitigation projects on the east side of the park. Slash has been cut and piled by park fire crews and contractors during the last two years. Nearly 6,000 piles were burned throughout the park last year.
