News from July 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Chet Arlie Moses, age 28, of White Swan, Washington, was sentenced on July 23, 2013 after pleading guilty in March, 2013 to committing an Assault with a Dangerous Weapon. United States District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Leonid Zalkind, 36, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering before U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon of the Eastern District of New York. At sentencing, scheduled for Dec. 2, 2013, Zalkind faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $500,000 fine.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-On the four-year anniversary of the last minimum wage increase, U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Rep. George Miller (D-CA), senior Democrat on the House Education and the Workforce Committee, today pointed to new polling data showing broad, bipartisan support for legislation they have introduced to raise the minimum wage.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Wednesday, July 24, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. COLUMBUS, OHIO -- Christopher E. Pelloski, MD, 39, of Upper Arlington, Ohio, turned himself in to law enforcement authorities today after a federal complaint...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy and Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Tribal Energy Program are pleased to present an interactive workshop from September 18-20 in Denver, Colorado, designed to walk tribal leaders and staff through the five steps of developing and financing community- and facility-scale projects on tribal lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Joplin, Mo., man who is a registered sex offender has been indicted by a federal grand jury for receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Freeport, Ill. man was sentenced today in federal court for wire fraud. U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala sentenced ANTHONY TAYLOR, 44, to 29 months in federal prison, in addition to 3 years of supervised release following his release from prison, and ordered Taylor to pay restitution of $212,542.44.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Jimi Clark, owner of a Mo' Money Tax franchise, admitted to falsely claiming educational tax credits on 47 returns. The American Opportunity Credit (AO Credit) allows certain taxpayers with educational expenses to take a refundable credit on their income taxes. He had been scheduled to proceed to trial this morning.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing examining ways health information technology (IT) improves the quality of health care in America...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: Costa Dillon, Superintendent of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore will retire from federal service on Aug. 26, 2013 after more than 35 years with the National Park Service (NPS).
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Once again warm and dry weather has settled over Lake Clark NP and the Currant Creek Fire has responded by becoming active. The Division of Forestry monitored the 779 acre-fire twice July 23. During the first flight, fire staff observed a small smoke on its far northwestern uphill edge. During the second...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: INIGO ALBINA, age 57, a citizen of the Phillipines, was sentenced today to 3 years probation and fined $10,000 by U. S. District Judge Stanwood R. Duval, Jr., for obstruction of justice in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1505, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Thomas Edison said that, “Vision without execution is hallucination.".
By State Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the below remarks as prepared for delivery at today’s full committee markup of H.R. 1409, H.R. 1926, H.R. 2449 and S. 793.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Fawzi Al-Arashi, 34, of Williamsville, N.Y., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a $1,000,000 fine, or both.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 24, 2013 - While President Obama prepares to deliver yet another speech on the economy today, Republicans on the House Natural Resources Committee have been advancing legislation to put Americans back to work and unlock access to our U.S. energy resources. Expanding American energy production, both onshore and offshore, is one of the best ways to create over a million new jobs and spur economic growth.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - The Fire Chief for the Kinloch Fire Protection District, Darran Kelley, pled guilty to charges involving his unauthorized use of more than $140,000 of District funds from January 2007 to Jan. 11, 2013. He also pled guilty to making a false statement relative to his receipt of Social Security disability payments, which resulted in overpayments to him of approximately $120,000. Kelley has been the District Fire Chief since 2002.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 24, 2013 - The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held an oversight hearing yesterday on the status of the Obama Administration’s rewrite of a coal mining regulations, the Stream Buffer Zone Rule, and heard from Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) Director Joseph Pizarchik.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a 23-year-old Apple Valley woman was sentenced in connection with the armed robbery of America’s Best Value Inn and Suites in Northfield. United States District Court Judge Paul A. Magnuson sentenced Julie Ann Campana to 36 months in prison on one count of aiding and abetting interference with commerce by robbery. Campana was indicted on Dec. 3, 2012, and pleaded guilty on April 2, 2013.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
Release: Washington, DC, July 24, 2013 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the results of USDA's Healthy Incentives Pilot (HIP) and discussed additional steps USDA and its partners are taking to encourage recipients to purchase healthy foods using SNAP benefits.
