News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: Largest Lacey Act Restitution Order Ever Obtained.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that William Robertson, age 21, of Mission, South Dakota appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on June 12, 2013 and pled guilty to Count III of an Indictment that charged him with Assault with a Dangerous Weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Helena, on June 13, 2013, before Senior U.S. District Judge Charles C. Lovell, ANTONIO MATHIAS PETERSON, a 30-year-old resident of East Helena, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - Howard Tyson, 45, of Dallas, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to the statutory maximum of 10 years in federal prison, following his guilty plea in March 2013 to one count of possession of child pornography. He was remanded into custody after he entered that plea. Today’s announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), announced that U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands sponsored the training entitled, Foundational Skills for Child and Adolescent Interviews...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today sent a letter to Avi Garbow, Deputy General Counsel at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) who is nominated to be the General Counsel. Vitter asked him to make commitments on transparency concerns ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 50-year-old St. Paul woman pleaded guilty for her role in a conspiracy to defraud the Social Security Administration (“SSA"). Dianne Josephine Chess specifically pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit Social Security fraud. Chess, who was indicted along with three co-defendants on Nov. 14, 2012, entered her plea before United States District Court Chief Judge Michael J. Davis.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Kicking off a new hearing series, the Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing on “Examining the Federal Government’s Response to the Prescription Drug Abuse Crisis." Prescription drug abuse has plagued the U.S. for many years and continues to be...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of June 17, 2013. Beginning on Tuesday, the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will continue its investigation into the Biowatch program. Also on Tuesday, the Energy and Power Subcommittee...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: Additional Contact: Juliana Gruenwald NTIA, 202-482-2145
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: National Park Advisory Commission Meeting to be Held June 20.
By State Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the launch of a new committee webpage that serves as a repository for information about bipartisan efforts to modernize U.S. international food aid delivery to feed more people, more quickly,...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: Investigation stems from an abandoned marijuana load discovered on Van Horn school bus last year.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: Historic Old Fall River Road, the popular historic one-way dirt road from the east side of Rocky Mountain National Park to the Alpine Visitor Center, was damaged by avalanches during the spring of 2011. This repair project will start on Monday, June 17. Old Fall River Road will be closed completely to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Roland Kaufmann, a Swiss citizen and CEO of Axius Inc., was sentenced to 16 months’ imprisonment for conspiring to bribe stock brokers. As required by his plea agreement, Kaufmann forfeited $290,000, with a portion to be remitted to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: ALPINE, Texas - Two men face federal drug trafficking charges related to the discovery of more than 480 pounds of marijuana on a Van Horn Independent School (ISD) school bus last year announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and DEA-El Paso Division Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: Defendant Also Ordered to Pay $150,000 in Restitution to a Victim Whose Photographs Were Included in His Collection.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: On Tuesday, June 18 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), will hold a hearing entitled, “Promoting the Accuracy and Accountability of the Davis-Bacon Act." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: Defendant Illegally Imported And Sold Vietnamese Cigarettes - Frequently Sold To Juveniles.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Victor Lopez, 47, of San Angelo, Texas, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 210 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in March 2013 to one count of receipt of child pornography. In addition, Judge Cummings ordered that Lopez serve an additional 20-year term of supervised release. Today’s announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
