News from July 2013
By Commerce News Now | Jul 30, 2013
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on July 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - TANIA HENDERSON of Wesley Chapel, Florida, was sentenced to 144 months in prison for her role in leading a stolen identity tax fraud scheme during 2012. In addition to the term of imprisonment, Henderson was ordered to repay the IRS $835,883 in restitution. She appeared in federal court in St. Louis before United States District Judge Carol E. Jackson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A South Jersey man who hid his father’s death from authorities to continue getting his Social Security payments was sentenced today to 12 months in prison for stealing more than $200,000 in retirement savings benefits paid out to the deceased, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: Seneca Falls, NY-- Women's Rights National Historical Park will host a naturalization ceremony at 11:00 AM on Friday, August 9, 2013, in the Wesleyan Chapel. Twenty candidates will state the oath of citizenship and be presented certificates by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The twenty...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: SAN JUAN, PR - On Wednesday, July 24, a federal grand jury indicted 9 individuals as the result of an investigation led by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HIS), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD), announced today United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai‘i - Park officials reopened the following areas within Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park Tuesday morning, as Flossie weakened into a tropical depression.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Juan Carlos Rocha-Aguilar, 33, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today by U. S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to serve 19 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for illegal re-entry of a deported alien after being convicted of a felony, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: Victor Manuel Diaz-Lucas, also known as “Victor Raul Cruz-Gutierres," 31, a citizen of Mexico who most recently resided in Berkeley, MO, entered a plea of guilty on July 25, 2013, to Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess With the Intent to Distribute Cocaine, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today commented on the nomination of Mike Connor to be Deputy Secretary at the U.S. Department of the Interior:
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has entered judgment for more than $17 million against Dr. Ishtiaq Malik and his two companies, Ishtiaq Malik M.D., P.C. and Advanced Nuclear Diagnostics, for submitting false nuclear cardiology claims to federal and state health care programs, the Justice Department announced today. Ishtiaq Malik, a nuclear cardiologist, has practiced in the District of Columbia metropolitan area since 2002.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: CHARLESTON - A Nicholas County woman faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty today in connection with a methamphetamine manufacturing conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Rachel Petrey, 32, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine before U.S. District Judge John T. Cophenhaver, Jr.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: Lassen Volcanic National Park and NASA will host the 2013 Dark Sky Festival, announced Park Superintendent Darlene M. Koontz. This year's Dark Sky Festival from August 9 to 11 is filled with exciting activities for all ages. Daytime activities include scale solar system hikes, special junior ranger astronomy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: TUSCALOOSA - A federal judge today found a Tuscaloosa County man guilty of sexually exploiting a child and possessing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr. and Tuscaloosa County Sheriff Billy Sharp.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - James Phillip Tafoya, 43, of Albuquerque, N.M., entered a guilty plea this morning to using a firearm in relation to a crime of violence under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Under the terms of the plea agreement, Tafoya will be sentenced to seven years in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - President Obama’s top official at the Internal Revenue Service has fallen far short of the President’s promise that his Administration would work “hand in hand" with Congress as “it performs its oversight role."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: Three Brook Park men were indicted for defrauding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly the Food Stamp Program) out $2 million from four Cleveland stores where they accepted food stamps for ineligible items such as beer and cigarettes, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Joseph Bassett, age 36, of Baltimore, today to 15 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a gun. Judge Quarles enhanced Bassett's sentence upon finding that he is an armed career criminal based on six previous drug convictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was charged today with making false statements in passport applications and illegally receiving disability payments.
