News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former Arizona resident who previously admitted running a “work-at-home" telemarketing fraud scheme that caused thousands of victims to lose more than $16 million has been sentenced to 78 months in federal prison.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: “Today we will mark up the Strengthening America’s Schools Act of 2013, a bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, or ESEA. Our actions today are crucial and long overdue-the last reauthorization of this law expired in 2007. With this mark-up, we have the opportunity to improve on the lessons of the past and ensure a brighter future for our children and the nation.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -At a Senate Finance Committee hearing today examining the growing problem of sex trafficking youth in foster care, Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said America’s child welfare system must do more to end this heinous crime and find appropriate ways to help victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jeffrey Wawrzyniak, 40, of Batavia, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Leslie G. Foschio to possession of child pornography. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the Committee’s completion of the first day of markup of the Strengthening America’s Schools Act, S. 1094.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Two men have been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON-Ronald J. Nachman has been named Distinguished Senior Research Scientist of 2012 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) for discoveries regarding insect neuropeptides that have opened the door to novel, environmentally sound strategies for controlling some of the most threatening agricultural pests. ARS is the principal intramural scientific research agency of USDA.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Nathan R. Platero, 41, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Tohajiilee, N.M., was sentenced this morning to ten years in federal prison followed by ten years of supervised release for his child sex abuse conviction. Platero will be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: A Cleveland man was sentenced to 12 years in prison for leading a ring that obtained blank prescription pads that were used to fraudulently obtain thousands of prescription painkiller pills, law enforcement officials announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Domestic Assault by Habitual Offender and Assault with a Dangerous Weapon.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: Today, Tuesday, June 11, an interagency crew consisting of Rocky Mountain National Park and US Forest Service firefighters were flown to the Big Meadows Fire located on the north end of Big Meadows on the west side of Rocky Mountain National Park. The location is roughly 4.5 miles from the Green Mountain...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-As the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee prepares to mark up the Strengthening America’s Schools Act (SASA), Chairman Tom Harkin’s bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), advocates and experts have expressed support for the bill’s provisions...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Cruz Tenorio, 29, a member and resident of Kewa Pueblo, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon to six months in federal prison followed by six months in a half-way house. He will then be on supervised release for a year.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: On Thursday, June 6 at approximately 7:30 pm the National Park Service received a report that a visitor had shot and injured a cow moose near the Denali Visitor Center. The visitor, Robert Sirvid, age 26, of Eagle River, Alaska stated that he and four other people, including two small children, encountered...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Marc Gange, 35, of Silver Spring, Md., was sentenced today to a prison term of 46 months on a federal charge of possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: Defendants Removed Checks From Mailboxes, Altered And Cashed Them.
By State Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: Dear Mr. Secretary: I am deeply troubled by the allegations made in a recent CBS News story that senior State Department officials prevented the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) from investigating reports of administrative and criminal misconduct within the Department. This story further alleged that...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: ABILENE, Texas - Aaron Charles Lustfeldt, 27, of Big Spring, Texas, appeared today in federal court, before U.S. Magistrate Judge E. Scott Frost, and pleaded guilty to one count of receipt of child pornography. He faces a maximum statutory penalty of not less than five years or more than 20 years in...
