News from January 2013
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management recently completed work at local National Conservation Areas to improve user experience with better parking and accessibility.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Two prior felons from San Juan County, N.M., were sentenced to prison time by federal judges today for being felons in possession of firearms. The sentences were 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 DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Andrew Lee Liesman, and his twin brother, Randall Scott Liesman, both 25, of Newport News, pled guilty Jan. 22, 2013, to receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: RONALD BELL, age 41, of Gretna; REGINA DAVIS, age 63, of New Orleans; and YODONNALISA EVANS, age 45, of New Orleans pled guilty today before the U. S. District Court Judge Martin L.C. Feldman to a one-count Bill of Information for conspiracy to commit health care fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Dana Boente.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: TYLER, Texas -A federal grand jury returned indictments today charging individuals with separate federal crimes in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Senators Tom Carper, incoming Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, Chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, and Dianne Feinstein, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence today released the following statements on the introduction of S. 21, the Cybersecurity and American Cyber Competitiveness Act of 2013...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On Jan. 22, 2013, Jonathan Dale Campbell, age 32, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced in United States District Court in Council Bluffs on the charge of conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property regarding the theft of copper from center-pivot irrigation...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ranking Member Edward J. Markey (D-Mass), who was selected to lead the Democrats on the Natural Resources Committee in December, today announced subcommittee leaders and members in the 113th session of Congress. Rep. Markey welcomed back and commended those members returning to the committee...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: Obed Wild and Scenic River is now providing visitors with unlimited access to their backcountry camping and wild hog hunting permits by providing them online. Backcountry camping permits are required but free and can be found online at.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: A Brecksville man was sentenced today to nine months of home detention with electronic monitoring, ordered to perform 40 hours of community service by United States District Court Judge Dan Aaron Polster, who also entered the final order of forfeiture in the amount of $1 million arising from his conviction on one count of conspiracy to hire undocumented workers, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: Boston - A Mendon man received a six month sentence of community confinement for filing a false income tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Charles Miller Hilkey Jr., 58, of the Nevada City area, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton in connection with the cultivation of marijuana and structuring cash transactions to avoid reporting requirements, Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - The former Executive Director of the Chelsea Housing Authority was charged today in federal court with falsely reporting his salary in annual budgets required by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Laquan Draper, 21, and Angelo Draper, 20, both of Portsmouth, Va., were convicted today by a federal jury on charges stemming from a series of convenience store and fast food restaurant robberies over an eight week period in the summer of 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: DES MOINES, IA B Chamness Technology, Inc. (CTI) was sentenced today to pay a $100,000 fine for the discharge of a pollutant announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. United States Magistrate Judge Ross A. Walters also sentenced CTI to serve a term of two years supervised probation, which includes conditions that CTI perform community service and develop a compliance and ethic program. The Court also imposed a $125 crime victim fund assessment.
By State Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 2 p.m., Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a Committee hearing entitled, “Terrorist Attack in Benghazi: The Secretary of State’s View," at which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will answer questions about the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya. In the attack, terrorists killed Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, and Glen Doherty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that a Lincoln County man was sentenced to three years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm. George Wayne Taylor, 56, of Hamlin, W.Va., admitted that on August 7, 2007...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Westmoreland County has pleaded guilty to a charge of production of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, and has been sentenced in federal court to 180 months imprisonment, to be followed by a term of supervised release to extend the remainder of his life, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
