News from January 2013
By DOT News Wire | Jan 18, 2013
The US Transportation Department published a four page rule on Jan. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 18, 2013
The US Transportation Department published a six page rule on Jan. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 18, 2013
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Jan. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 18, 2013
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Jan. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 18, 2013
The US Commerce Department published an eight page rule on Jan. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Mary and Christian Young and Octavious Reeves were indicted by a federal grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama on a variety of charges stemming from an identity theft and tax fraud conspiracy, announced George L. Beck, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The alleged conspirators were charged in a 31-count indictment that was returned on Dec. 18, 2012, and unsealed today.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jimmy Lee Barner, 30, Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted after a jury trial of being a felon in possession of firearm and ammunition, was sentenced a 100 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Bill Wilson.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ellsworth Colbert, 57, was found guilty by a jury today of manslaughter while armed and other charges stemming from a slaying in Southeast Washington during an argument over the victim’s dog, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: Preyed On Clients For Ten Years Before Faked Suicide And Flight To Scotland.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: C. RAY NAGIN, 56, a resident of Frisco, Texas and formerly the Mayor of New Orleans, was charged in a 21-count indictment with bribery, honest service wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy, and filing false tax returns, announced U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente, FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Michael Anderson, and IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent-in-Charge James Lee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: SEATTLE - The owner of a medical marijuana dispensary that billed itself as a ‘cooperative’ when it really was just a for-profit drug dealing enterprise, was sentenced today to six years in prison and four years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute marijuana and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Craig Douglas Dieffenbach, 61, an owner of Seattle Cannabis Cooperative with locations in the Rainier Valley and Greenwood, pleaded guilty in August 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: - Collected his deceased mother’s survivor benefits for ten years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on Jan. 17, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge JEREMIAH C. LYNCH, the following individuals were arraigned.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La.: United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that the former manager for Beauregard Ranch & Tractor Supply, located in DeRidder, La., was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Lafayette by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote, to five years probation. Arnold Russell...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A local federal prosecutor, who has a well-earned reputation for successfully prosecuting cases investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Boston, received top honors from the agency Friday. He was honored for his outstanding professional achievements as a leading member of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Tex. - Juan Ramon Ibarra Jr., 30, of Laredo, has been convicted for his role in a conspiracy to transport five kilograms or more of cocaine and international money laundering, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Javier F. Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La.: United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Jose Luis Regalado, aka “Tito," 34, a member of a drug trafficking organization based out of Vermilion Parish, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote, to serve 20 years in federal prison, followed...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas -Booker Bernard Preston, 38, of Fort Worth, Texas, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge John McBryde to a total of 10 years in federal prison, following his conviction at trial in September 2012 on one count of selling a firearm to a convicted felon and one count of possessing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Donato Richardson, 34, of Roanoke, Va., has pled guilty to physically and sexually assaulting a child on a Greyhound bus and to assaulting a police officer in an unrelated incident on the same day, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.