News from July 2013

By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing and markup schedule for the week of July 15, 2013. Beginning on Tuesday, the Subcommittee on Health will consider ideas for reforming the regulation of drug compounding. Also on Tuesday, the full committee will begin...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Antonio Gallegos, 48, of Albuquerque, N.M. was sentenced this afternoon to 188 months in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for his conviction for distribution and attempted distribution of child pornography. Gallegos will be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence. Gallegos also was ordered to pay $500 in restitution to the victim whose image was at issue in his crime of conviction.

By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - New documents from the IRS and the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration disclosed today by Oversight and Government Reform Committee Democrats further underscore the fundamental flaws within Treasury Inspector General George’s audit of the IRS’ processing of tax exemption applications.

By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, SD - Rangers at Wind Cave National Park will offer a three-hour tour of the Sanson Homestead and Buffalo Jump on Saturday, July 27. Meet at the park visitor center at 9 a.m. dressed for the weather with water, sunscreen, and hiking shoes. Participants will then car caravan out to the Sanson Ranch. The hike is moderately strenuous and will discuss last summer's archeology investigation of the buffalo jump.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing and markup schedule for the week of July 15, 2013. Beginning on Tuesday, the Subcommittee on Health will consider ideas for reforming the regulation of drug compounding. Also on Tuesday, the full committee will begin...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Hardin County, Kentucky, man pleaded guilty in United States District Court today, before District Judge John G. Heyburn II, to charges of pretending to be an officer of the United States, wire fraud, making false statements or representations, and entering government property under false pretenses for the purposes of committing a felony, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement on the resignation of Secretary Janet Napolitano as Homeland Security Secretary...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: Three southern Illinois residents were indicted on July 9, 2013, in an indictment, charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Mo., man has pleaded guilty to bank robbery in Kansas, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Kenny Davalos, 24, of Houston, has entered a plea of guilty to conspiracy to make and making a false statement to a federal firearms licensee (FFL), United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Calvin Dawdy, age 52, of Littleton, Colorado, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Marcia S. Krieger to serve 10 years in federal prison for possession of child pornography, United States Attorney John Walsh and FBI Denver Special Agent in Charge Thomas Ravenelle announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Herbert G. Hayes, 41, of Washington, D.C., was found guilty by a jury today of second-degree murder while armed in a slaying that took place last year in Northwest Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal jury sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., returned a guilty verdict this afternoon against Clay O’Brien Mann, 28, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., on involuntary manslaughter, assault and firearms charges after a five-day trial. The guilty verdict...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Terrance Saffore, 25, has entered a plea of guilty to conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Helena, on July 9, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, BRUCE WAYNE EAGLEMAN, JR., a 25-year-old resident of Hardin and an enrolled member of the Crow Tribe of Indians, pled guilty to second degree murder. Sentencing has been set for Oct. 21, 2013. He is currently detained.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing and markup schedule for the week of July 15, 2013. Beginning on Tuesday, the Subcommittee on Health will consider ideas for reforming the regulation of drug compounding. Also on Tuesday, the full committee will begin...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Florida man who sold paintings stolen from a Los Angeles art gallery - and who took elaborate steps to avoid paying taxes over several years - has been sentenced to 90 months in federal prison for the art-related and tax offenses.
By State Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, President Obama signed into law legislation authored by U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Royce’s legislation, H.R. 1151, calls for the Secretary of State to endorse Taiwan’s entry into the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Royce issued the following statement on the new law...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Kimberly Eileen McMillian, a/k/a Kimberly Simmons and Kimberly Simmons McMillian, age 46, of Baltimore, and Glenroy E. Day, Sr., age 73, of Oxon Hill, Maryland, pleaded guilty yesterday to wire fraud in connection with a fraud scheme involving more than $1 million in fraudulently obtained mortgages.