News from January 2013
By DOE Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today thanked Interior Secretary Ken Salazar for his service to the country. Salazar announced Wednesday that he would be retiring from the Department of the Interior by the end of March.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) today issued the following statement after the White House announced recommendations from Vice President Joe Biden's gun task force.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: Washington - Under regulations of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA), Regal Marketing Inc., headquartered in Scotch Plains, N.J., has posted a $50,000 cash surety bond.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 26-year-old Minneapolis man was indicted in connection with the armed robbery of three Twin-Cities area convenience stores and on two separate occasions, the same Jimmy John’s sandwich shop. Derrel Johon Pruitt was charged with five counts of interference...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Tony Leon Smith, 64, of Snellville, Georgia, who was convicted after a jury trial of wire fraud and money laundering, was sentenced to 96 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $5,175,000 by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: Urbana, Ill. - Michael Pinski, who previously pled guilty to violation of the Clean Air Act related to illegal and unsafe asbestos removal from a Kankakee, Ill., building he owned, has been sentenced. On Monday, Jan. 14, 2013, U.S. District Judge Michael P. McCuskey ordered that Pinski, 44, of Kankakee...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after attending a White House event during which President Obama and Vice President Biden announced comprehensive recommendations for executive and legislative action to prevent gun violence, including legislation championed by Cummings to create a dedicated firearms trafficking statute...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: The Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) funds will go toward projects such as helping New Mexico departments of health and environment to research whether dust levels in a changing climate will affect valley fever, a regional infectious pulmonary disease. The grants will also help drought agencies in both states incorporate climate information into their planning and implementation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Daniel F. Gillard, 48, of Olney, Illinois, was charged in an Indictment returned by a Federal Grand Jury sitting in Benton, Illinois, with possession of child pornography and with accessing the internet with intent to view child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: Already Charged With Trafficking Credit Card Numbers Stolen By Hacking Seattle Businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Wildman, 31, pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco yesterday afternoon to one count of possession with intent to distribute heroin and one count of possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: Full Committee Ranking Member, Rep. Nita Lowey.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: A criminal indictment was unsealed today charging Toledo resident Richard Schmidt with a variety of crimes related to his possession of 18 firearms, body armor and more than 40,000 rounds of ammunition despite a previous conviction for the crime of manslaughter, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cleveland office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. COLUMBUS - Gordon L. Yocom, 44, of Dublin, Ohio pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering for fraudulently obtaining a mortgage loan to finance...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is currently involved in Resource Management Planning (RMP) on more than 2.5 million acres in western Oregon. Recreation and visitor services will play a role throughout this planning effort. To answer several planning questions related to recreation area management...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Darryl Parker, 32, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of using a communication facility to commit a drug felony, was sentenced to 27 months in prison and one year supervised release by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: DANTE CARSON, age 21, and, DWIGHT CARSON, age 22, both of Algiers, Louisiana pled guilty in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Lance M. Africk to Violations of the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization Act, the Federal Gun Control and Controlled Substances Acts, and Aiding and Abetting, announced U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A West Brookfield man with a prior child pornography conviction was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Springfield.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Today, BRANDI J. HENSON, 49, of Yukon, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison in connection with a scheme to embezzle nearly $400,000 from Oklahoma City Community College, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2013
News Release: A federal grand jury in Benton, Illinois, has charged 17 individuals with methamphetamine related offenses, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Those charged with providing pseudoephedrine pills to methamphetamine manufacturers are:...
