News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Xiang Li, age 36, of Chengdu, China, was sentenced to 12 years in prison today for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and criminal copyright infringement based on cyber-theft and online piracy of over $100 million worth of sensitive, industrial-grade software and confidential data stolen from the internal server of a cleared defense contractor. Li will be deported to China pending his release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: Submitted False Documents Defrauding Bank And Federal Insurers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Alex James Ellenwood, 24, of Lapwai, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Coeur d’Alene to 40 months in prison for unlawful possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Ellenwood to serve three years of supervised release and forfeit the firearm he illegally possessed. Ellenwood pleaded guilty to the charge on March 19, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - Today, the Bureau of Land Management’s Tres Rios Field Office posted a decision record approving a potash exploration project submitted by RM Potash. The project is located approximately 15 miles north of Dove Creek and U.S. Highway 491 in Dolores and San Miguel counties, Colo.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) today expressed disappointment that taxpayers are likely still losing money due to a faulty lease process in the Western U.S.’s main coal supply area in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, according to a report released today by the Department of Interior’s Inspector General. The report also found deficiencies in the enforcement and inspection of Powder River Basin regulations and operations.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today made the following statement about the growing support for the "Chemical Safety Improvement Act of 2013" (CSIA) that he coauthored and introduced with the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Adrian Barron-Valdez, was sentenced on June 10, 2013, to 151 months in prison by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard. Barron-Valdez had previously pled guilty for his involvement in a conspiracy to distribute multiple ounces of “ice" methamphetamine...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: Whiskeytown National Recreation Area and the Friends of Whiskeytown invite park visitors to a free art demo and talk with artist-in-residence Dan Crowe on Friday June 14, 2013 from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm at Brandy Creek Beach. Dan will also display some of the paintings created during his stay at Whiskeytown. A recent graduate of Oberlin College in Ohio, Dan has been working in the park since early June.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - An Andover man was convicted today for obstructing a grand jury investigation.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Acting Administrator Daniel Werfel requesting information about a March 2011 IRS search and seizure of as many as 60 million medical records from a California health care provider. The letter...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
Release: With its rapidly developing economy and expanding middle class, Turkey has become an important market for U.S. food and agricultural products over the past decade. It’s also the destination of the next USDA agricultural trade mission from June 10-14 as Acting Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Michael Scuse leads a U.S. delegation to promote U.S. agricultural exports.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Acting Administrator Daniel Werfel requesting information about a March 2011 IRS search and seizure of as many as 60 million medical records from a California health care provider. The letter...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - In U.S. District Court in Fort Worth, Texas, today, U.S. District Judge Terry R. Means sentenced two Tarrant County men to lengthy federal prison sentences following their guilty pleas late last year in separate, unrelated child pornography cases, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 24-year-old Red Lake man was indicted for sexually assaulting a woman while on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. Avery Wade Schoenborn was specifically charged with one count of sexual abuse. The indictment alleges that on May 7, 2013, Schoenborn engaged in a sexual act with the victim, who was incapable of declining participation in the act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE -Norma Mermejo, 62, a member and resident of Picuris Pueblo, was sentenced this morning to five years of probation for her conviction on an embezzlement and theft from an Indian tribal organization charge. Mermejo also was ordered to pay $132,000 in restitution to Picuris Pueblo.
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 DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: This morning in San Antonio, a federal criminal complaint was filed against 51-year-old Alvin Leon Roundtree of San Antonio alleging domestic violence on Fort Sam Houston announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, Federal Bureau of Investigation San Antonio Division Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez and San Antonio Police Chief William McManus.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 10, 2013
News Release: U.S. House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin C. Peterson, D-Minn., today made the following statement after the U.S. Senate approved S. 954, the 2013 Farm Bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The president of Parsippany, N.J.-based Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), three BLS employees and three associates admitted today to a conspiracy in which millions of dollars in bribes were paid to physicians over a number of years in exchange for blood sample referrals worth more than $100 million to the company, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 10, 2013
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON— Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today hosted a conference call with Southwest Border Sheriffs and Police Chiefs to discuss the need for commonsense reform to strengthen border security, building upon the Department’s historic gains achieved over the past four years.
