News from July 2013
By DOE Newswire | Jul 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today announced several changes to the committee’s communications and technology staff, outlined an expanded cross-subcommittee staff portfolio, and also welcomed a new press secretary. Upton congratulated departing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2013
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Shavane Bouasangouane, 44, of Fresno, was sentenced today to four years and nine months in prison for his involvement in a large marijuana cultivation operation on agricultural land in Fresno County, Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Bouasangouane was also ordered to register as a drug offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Braintree man was charged in an indictment unsealed today with tax and bank fraud violations, primarily for recording and attempting to record false and fraudulent federal tax lien releases on properties he owned, and attempting to obtain a bank loan by fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2013
News Release: Indictment Alleges that Defendants Operated Fraudulent Companies for Years Despite December 2000 Court Order.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 1, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A teacher at Royal Oak Middle School in Covina, who was arrested last month by special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) following an undercover sting in his classroom, was indicted Tuesday for child exploitation offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Pierre, South Dakota woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Theft From an Indian Tribal Organization.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today announced several changes to the committee’s communications and technology staff, outlined an expanded cross-subcommittee staff portfolio, and also welcomed a new press secretary. Upton congratulated departing...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 1, 2013
News Release: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protects the United States by promoting homeland security and public safety through the criminal and civil enforcement of federal laws governing border control, customs, trade and immigration. To accomplish this mission, ICE removes individuals wanted by its foreign law enforcement partners and conducts multi-faceted federal law enforcement operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Douglas G. “Bo" Taylor, age 52, of Remington, Va., the former Chief of the Remington Volunteer Fire & Rescue Department (“RVFD"), was charged in an eight-count indictment by a federal grand jury on allegations related to theft from a program receiving federal funds, wire fraud and filing...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Large, profitable U.S. corporations paid an average effective federal tax rate of just 12.6% in 2010, far less than the U.S. statutory rate, according to a Government Accountability Office report released today by two senior senators.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a two-count indictment charging Luis Alcalar Vasquez, 36, a citizen of Mexico, with possessing false identification documents and unauthorized access devices. The charges carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison terms and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Michael Hernandez, 24, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Conspiracy, was sentenced to 57 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 1, 2013
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - On Sunday June 30 at approximately 3:30 p.m., the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a call from the emergency phone at Phantom Ranch Boat Beach with a report of an unconscious female hiker approximately three quarters of a mile above Phantom Ranch on the South...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today announced several changes to the committee’s communications and technology staff, outlined an expanded cross-subcommittee staff portfolio, and also welcomed a new press secretary. Upton congratulated departing...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 1, 2013
News Release: 1 DEAD, MORE THAN A DOZEN RESCUED IN MULTIPLE INCIDENTS AT LAKE MEAD.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2013
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit drug dealer who stored firearms, illegal narcotics and cash at his Huntington residence in October 2011 was sentenced on July 1 to three years and one month in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Dwjuan Strickland, also known as “Freak" and “Mitch," 37, of Detroit...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 1, 2013
News Release: El fin de semana del 4 de julio es uno de los fines de semana más concurridos del año en el Área de Recreación Nacional de Whiskeytown. Las áreas del parque más populares se llenan rápidamente y el espacio para estacionar estará limitado.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2013
News Release: A federal jury Friday convicted four individuals for their participation in a Medicare fraud scheme involving nearly $70 million in fraudulent billings by Hollywood Pavilion (HP), a mental health care hospital.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2013
News Release: (FORT SMITH, Ark.) - - Drug Enforcement (New Orleans Field Division) Acting Special Agent in Charge Joseph W. Shepherd announced today that Mark Anthony Teas, 34, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, was sentenced to five years in prison for the burglary of the Prince Drug Store in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The sentencing...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 1, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement in response to a Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) report on the "Transportation Security Administration's Screening Partnership Program" (OIG-13-99)...