News from July 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - --A 39-year-old Tyler, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Javier Peña and U.S. Attorney John M. Balestoday.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on two produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By State Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel, the senior Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today criticized a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia allowing the State Department to continue to refuse American citizens born in Jerusalem from listing “Israel" as their country of birth.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Christian Jennings, 27, of Portsmouth was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 64 months in prison for possession of methylenedioxy methamphetamine (MDMA or “Ecstasy") and marijuana with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: Sonny D. Southall, 28, of McLeansboro, Illinois, was arraigned today in United States District Court in Benton on an indictment charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. The indictment, returned...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - -- Pedro Guerra-Ruiz, 34, of Rio Grande City, has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction for possession with intent to distribute approximately 1.51 kilograms of methamphetamine, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Javier Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Guerra pleaded guilty April 29, 2013.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today heard testimony on bipartisan legislation by Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.) that would expand the federal revenue sharing program to ensure all energy producing states receive a fair share of the revenues they help generate.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A local man who used friends and family members to serve as straw buyers to fraudulently purchase homes in the Las Vegas area so he could skim part of the loan proceeds for himself, has been sentenced to 51 months in prison, five years of supervised release, and ordered to pay approximately $1.3 million in restitution announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Greensburg, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of federal income tax evasion, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael J. DePalma, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announced today Edda Obando, 65, of Miami, pled guilty to a two count Information charging her with making and subscribing a false tax return, in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7206(1).
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today is giving a comprehensive speech on trade at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, available in PDF form here. The speech is available on livestream.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Six people allegedly involved in an extensive scheme to obtain millions of dollars through fraudulently obtained refund checks issued by the U.S. Treasury were charged today for their involvement in the scam, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), and the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), today held a joint hearing to examine the Obama administration’s recent decision to delay enforcement of the health care law’s employer mandate. The delay was announced through a blog post on the Treasury Department’s website just days before the July Fourth holiday.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Debra Bulter pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and to money laundering before U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. Conspiracy carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000. Money laundering carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Ormand Beach, Florida, man convicted of Trafficking in Counterfeit Goods or Services was sentenced on July 18, 2013, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Florida announced that Robert P. Galea, 53, of Pensacola, Florida, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that he trafficked in counterfeit “Viagra" and fraudulently executed a scheme to deliver the misbranded pharmaceuticals through the United States Postal Service.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: Avalanche Canyon was the site of the latest rescue in Grand Teton National Park. Five park rangers performed one of the more physically taxing ground based rescues in the last several years during the afternoon and evening of Monday, July 22.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DANIEL WILSON, a former supervisor at Indian Point Energy Center (“Indian Point"), a nuclear power plant in Westchester County, was charged in a criminal Complaint (the “Complaint") with engaging in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska-U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that an Anchorage woman was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for violating conflict of interest laws by representing a contractor on issues she previously handled for the government.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: Today, the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security held a hearing entitled, “Addressing the Immigration Status of Illegal Immigrants Brought to the United States as Children." After the first panel’s opening remarks, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) issued the following statement...
