News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO- Alfredo Contreras was sentenced yesterday to 9 years and 2 months in prison for selling methamphetamine, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: BALTIMORE - A federal jury today convicted Lenny Cain, age 36, of Baltimore, Maryland, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone, and for possession with intent to distribute oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Woodlyn, Pa., man was charged today with multiple counts of wire fraud in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme in which he recruited a straw buyer to purchase three condominiums in Dorchester, Mass., which ultimately went into foreclosure, causing a loss to the lenders of nearly $900,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. -Three members of a Dodge City street gang charged in a federal racketeering case have pleaded guilty, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Following the recent collapse of the I-5 Bridge in Washington State, U.S. Rep Nick J. Rahall, top Democrat on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, is calling for the accelerated implementation of new inspection standards and reporting requirements to ensure the safety of the nation’s bridges.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today delivered the keynote address at the Bipartisan Policy Center’s event, “The Geopolitical Impacts of the U.S. Tight Oil Boom: Implications for OPEC and the U.S. Strategic Posture." The event is the first of four the BPC will host on the geopolitics of petroleum and natural gas over the course of 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden County, N.J., man was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for organizing a plot to sink his fishing boat off the coast of Cape May, N.J., in August 2009 to collect $400,000 from an insurance company, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 20-year-old Beaumont, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for carjacking in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A husband and wife who worked in the real estate profession in southern Nevada, have been charged in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas with conspiracy and fraud for making false statements to Wells Fargo Bank in order to get it to approve a short sale on their home, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - This morning, Oscar Marquez, 23, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on Hobbs Act robbery and firearms charges arising out of a crime spree that involved robberies of four Albuquerque-area businesses...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Corpus Christi resident Daniel Ricardo Barrientos, 30, has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of soliciting a child for sex through the Internet, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. A Corpus Christi federal jury convicted Barrientos on March 7, 2013, after a two-day trial.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., June 12, 2013 - Today, the House Natural Resources Committee approved three bills to expand American offshore and onshore energy production in order to help create new American jobs, lower energy prices, generate new revenue, and make America more energy secure.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Today, United States District Judge Stephen P. Friot sentenced CONNELL C. WILLIAMS, 33, from Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, and CANDICE C. HOLLOWAY, 32, from Norfolk, Virginia, to 30 years imprisonment for their roles in the first degree child abuse murder of Holloway’s ten-year-old son on Fort Sill Army Post, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA -- - United States Attorney Timothy J. Heaphy announced today that Ernest Julius Benko pled guilty in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon to charges related to the obstruction of a federal criminal investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: Organization Allegedly Capitalized on Information Hacked From More Than a Dozen Global Financial Institutions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on June 12, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen, CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY QUINN, a 49-year-old resident of Troy, was sentenced to a term of.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., June 12, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement on newly-elected Representative Jason Smith (MO-08) joining the Natural Resources Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. and Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives New York Field Division Special Agent in Charge Joseph A. Anarumo announced today that after nearly three years of litigation, the lawsuit seeking to stop the federal law aimed at restricting the internet sales of cigarettes and sales to children has ended with the dismissal of several Native American cigarette retailers’ claims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced June 11, 2013, to 10 years in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: Let me begin by thanking the Chairman for holding this hearing. We’ve had a hearing this year on India, and we had extensive discussions about Russia last year during the PNTR debate. And of course China is always on our minds. So having a hearing on Brazil allows us to round out our discussions on those emerging economies known as the “BRICs" - Brazil, Russia, India, and China.
