News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Four individuals from New Jersey were taken into custody today for their alleged roles in a $15 million mortgage fraud scheme on an Indictment returned by a federal grand jury on Jan. 30, 2013, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: MUNISING, Mich. The National Park Service has announced that Jim Northup, who has served as superintendent at Pictured Rock National Lakeshore since May 2005, has been selected to serve as the new superintendent of Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. In this capacity, Northup will also oversee operation of nearby Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park. He will begin his new position in March.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Rochester, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Gary Shapoff, 62, of Boynton Beach, Florida, who was convicted of money laundering and making a false tax return, was sentenced to 60 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $2,228,605.84 by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. COLUMBUS - Internal Revenue Service agents arrested Roma L. Sims, 34, Westerville, Ohio and Samantha C. Towns, 30, Reynoldsburg, Ohio today based on criminal...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican of the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding today's announcement by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding the 2013 Renewable Fuels Standards (RFS) and the required volume obligation for cellulosic biofuel. Last week, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated EPA's unrealistic 2012 projection for cellulosic biofuel production.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Quality Roofing, Inc., a Michigan-based corporation, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa to preparing and submitting false documents to the government. The charge carries a maximum penalty of a fine of $500,000.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today marks 15 years since the federal government has defaulted on its legal responsibility to store our nation’s nuclear waste. According to the law, the Department of Energy was supposed to begin accepting nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain by Jan. 31, 1998. Since then, 76 lawsuits...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: On Tuesday, February 5 at 10:00 a.m., Utah Governor Gary R. Herbert will testify at a hearing chaired by U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN). The hearing, entitled “Challenges and Opportunities Facing America's Schools and Workplaces," will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Reps. Joe Pitts and Bill Cassidy and Sens. Chuck Grassley, Orrin Hatch, Lamar Alexander and Michael Enzi today sought details of the federal government’s long-overdue attention to the qualification of the participants in a federal discount prescription drug program.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - On Friday, Feb. 1, 2013 the National Park Service will begin accepting applications for noncommercial river trip permits to raft the Colorado River through Grand Canyon National Park. The permits will be for specific launch dates within calendar year 2014. A total of 450 permits...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today marks 15 years since the federal government has defaulted on its legal responsibility to store our nation’s nuclear waste. According to the law, the Department of Energy was supposed to begin accepting nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain by Jan. 31, 1998. Since then, 76 lawsuits...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - An investigation by Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) has resulted in the federal indictment of two individuals from Providence, R.I., on charges of allegedly embezzling federal tax checks in excess of $1,000, and allegedly converting the funds for personal use, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and William P. Offord, Special Agent in Charge of the Boston Field Office of IRS-CI.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Western District of Michigan. Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Marcus Montell Thames, 32, of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, was sentenced to serve nine years and seven months in Federal prison for his leading role in an interstate identity-theft...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Project Ceasefire. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm. Damon L. Collier, 40, of Kansas City, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man was sentenced today for possessing firearms and ammunition while under felony indictment.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Statement of Senator Barbara Boxer The Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund and the Need to Invest in the Nation's Ports Jan. 31, 2013 Before we begin the first hearing of the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) in the 113th Congress, I would like to welcome the Committee's new ranking member, ...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC -- Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology being developed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for coal-based central power generation is being adapted by the U.S. Office of Naval Research for use in advanced unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Kayla Noble with 12 counts of theft of government property. If convicted, she faces a maximum penalty of 10 ten years in federal prison for each count.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Saunders is the second defendant to be sentenced recently as part of Charleston’s West Side DMI initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Daisy Deguzman, a New Jersey doctor who practiced in Newark, today was sentenced to six months in prison and six months of home detention for her role in a cash-for-patients scheme with a diagnostic facility in Orange, N.J., U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
