News from January 2013
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement following news that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) intends to cancel its contract with Rapiscan because it could not comply with a Congressional mandate...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: Stephen Keith Sweet, 53, of South Roxana, was sentenced in federal court on charges of tax evasion and making an illegal payment to a government official, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Sweet received a sentence of 18 months in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today the forfeiture of more than $300,000 from the sale of a drug trafficker’s home. According to United States Attorney Peter J. Smith, United States District Judge John E. Jones, III, entered a Final Order of Forfeiture...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS -- In the District of Minnesota, court action continued this week in two separate cases involving foreign nationals who entered the United States illegally after being deported as criminals. Yesterday, one of those men was sentenced on one count of illegal entry after removal, while earlier in the week a second man was sentenced for the same crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Jon August Holverson, the owner of Bayou City Properties, will be spending nine years in federal prison for conspiring to obtain approximately $1 million in disaster relief funds by fraudulent means, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Holverson, 52, of Bellaire, pleaded guilty in December 2011 to conspiracy to commit fraud in connection with a benefit authorized pursuant to a presidentially declared disaster and a substantive count of fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Nigerian national charged in connection with a multi-national scheme that bilked more than $70 million from U.S. and Canadian lawyers pleaded guilty in federal court today in Harrisburg.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: An East St. Louis man, Charles L. Thomas, 25, was sentenced today in United States District Court, East St. Louis, for Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Previously Convicted Felon, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced. Thomas was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Steven Bennett, 42, of Buffalo, N.Y.; Chandra Woods, 29, of Los Angeles, California; Jessica Lopez, 32, of Buffalo, N.Y.; Phillip Keomongkoun, 26, of Buffalo, N.Y.; Malcom...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: Three Additional LIRR Retirees Also Plead Guilty In Connection With The Scheme; Twenty-One Defendants Have Now Pled Guilty To Fraud And Other Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: Defendant Admits Robbing Four Albuquerque Businesses in Two-Week Period.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 18, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement on the announcement by the Obama Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to call for imposing new, onerous regulations on Arizona’s coal-fired Navajo Generating...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: Defendant Ordered to Pay $175,923.93. LAFAYETTE, La.: United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that the former owner of Rest Assure Home Medical Equipment, located in Rayne, La., was sentenced to five years probation and was ordered to pay $175,923.93 in restitution for health care...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement regarding the House Republican debt ceiling proposal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: U.S. Postal Service Inspectors Tracked And Interrupted Domestic And International Drug Shipments.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on Jan. 18, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, EUGENE THOMAS CRAWFORD, a 46-year-old resident of Glendive, appeared for sentencing. CRAWFORD was sentenced to a term of.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following comment on a draft proposal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) that would allow the state of Alaska to reintroduce wood bison after years of delay.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - The final defendant, charged last year with five others, has been sentenced for his role in distributing controlled substances at the VA Medical Center in Bedford.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: Baited black traps in a pyramid shape attract significantly more brown marmorated stink bugs than other traps, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists. Evaluating stink bug responses to different visual stimuli may help manufacturers design better traps for monitoring the bugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Sherman Roger Alexander, 58, a resident of Ketchikan, Alaska, pled guilty and was sentenced to three violations of the Marine Mammal Protection Act for his role in the illegal taking of 87 sea otters, the failure to tag the hides...
