News from January 2013

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Dennis Red Elk, age 32, of Rapid City, South Dakota; Maurice Johnson, age 33, of Rapid City, South Dakota; and Daniel Gangone, age 35, of Mission, South Dakota, appeared before United States Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno on Jan. 17, 2013...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A former employee of a car dealership in Hanover was sentenced today for embezzling $96,920 from her employer.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: Raylene Wilson, 43, of Salisbury, Maryland, was charged today by Indictment with one count of identity theft and one count of using a false Social Security number, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: Keith McCracken, 34, of Philadelphia, was charged today by Indictment with one count of bank robbery announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. In particular, the indictment charges the defendant with having robbed the M&T Bank, 7121 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, on Dec. 31, 2012.

By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: The Administration's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) has released a report based on the input of nearly 900 stakeholders that describes an approach to implementing and managing a National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI)-a proposed national network of up to 15 manufacturing...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: Sixteen people were indicted on charges including drug trafficking, possessing illegal firearms and money laundering for their roles in a group that is accused of bringing cocaine, heroin and marijuana from Chicago and selling it in Cleveland, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Robert L. Corso, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on Jan. 23, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, DOUGLAS EDWARD COTTRELL, a 42-year-old resident of Great Falls, appeared for sentencing. COTTRELL was sentenced to a term of.

By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa released the following statement on news of the impending resignation of Justice Department’s Criminal Division head, Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 26-year-old Denver, Colorado, man, formerly of Plymouth, Minnesota, was sentenced for receiving, via his computer, thousands of images of child pornography. United States District Court Judge Patrick J. Schiltz sentenced Russell Ronald Brimeyer to 85 months in federal prison on one count of receipt of child pornography. Brimeyer was charged on May 7, 2012, and pleaded guilty on June 26, 2012.

By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking one or more qualified institutions or organizations to work with it in developing and implementing a fellowship program to afford doctoral-level graduate students opportunities to work at NIST laboratories on research topics in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is soliciting proposals to support significant research in the field of fundamental measurement or the determination of fundamental constants.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La.: United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell sentenced former federal inmate Jose Rueperto Alaniz, 39, of Wichita Falls, Texas, to 24 months in prison with three years supervised release and Diana Castillo, 31, also of Wichita Falls...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jason Koscielski, 24, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of receipt, distribution and possession of child pornography, was sentenced to 135 months in prison and 30 years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on Jan. 24, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah C. Lynch, the following individual was arraigned.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - DAVID COLEMAN HEADLEY, a U.S. citizen partly of Pakistani descent, was sentenced today to 35 years in prison for a dozen federal terrorism crimes relating to his role in planning the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India and a subsequent proposed attack on a newspaper in Denmark.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 32 indictments charging 32 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: To Date, 13 Defendants Have Pleaded Guilty in the Case.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) today praised the formation of the Bicameral Task Force on Climate Change. Rep. Markey, who was the Chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming from 2007-2010, and now an original member of the task force, reinforced the goals of the panel to speed up action to cut the carbon emissions that are heating up the planet and causing more extreme weather, among other effects.

By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2013
News Release: Join Fort Sumter National Monument as we open the grounds of the U.S. Coast Guard Historic District on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013. The special community public event takes place from 1:00-4:00 p.m. at 1815 I'On Avenue on Sullivan's Island.