News from June 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) wrote to Interior Secretary Jewell today asking that she finalize the Comprehensive Conservation Plan (CCP) for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and include a recommendation that the pristine coastal plain be designated as wilderness...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2013
News Release: MEDFORD - The International Energy Agency reported that global emissions of carbon dioxide from energy rose 1.4 percent to 31.6 gigatons in 2012. If we continue on this pace, our planet could see a temperature increase over nine degrees Fahrenheit. Also noted in the report was that the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Colorado couple has been sentenced for operating a $17 million Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors in 13 states and five foreign countries with promises of big returns on investments in diamonds and international notes, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today. Prosecutors from Grissom’s office are serving as special counsel on the case, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Denver.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CHRISTINA TARTAGLIO, 34, of Bridgeport, waived her right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before United States Magistrate Judge Donna F. Martinez in Hartford to one count of wire fraud related to her embezzlement from her Shelton employer.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2013
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia, June 6, 2013- Have you had a glimpse of the New River Gorge from Grandview yet this season? Well now is a good time to see one of the most spectacular vistas in the region at New River Gorge National River. Chat with a ranger each evening (except Mondays) at Grandview’s Main...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Ten people were sentenced last week for their participation in a drug trafficking organization operating in Autauga, Elmore and Montgomery Counties, announced George L. Beck, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama. United States District Judge Keith Watkins sentenced the ten people after they were either convicted following a 2 ½ week trial in February 2013, or plea of guilty.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2013
News Release: After a cooler than normal April, it was a welcome relief to have May arrive and bring with it warmer temperatures and a taste of summer. Temperatures at the Seward airport were above freezing on all days except for four; the last day in May that below-freezing temperatures were recorded was the 15th.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 2013
News Release: On Wednesday June 12, at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), will hold a hearing entitled, “Strengthening the Multiemployer Pension System: What Reforms Should Policymakers Consider?" The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2013
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on June 10, 2013, Curtis D. Jochim, 26, Selfridge, N.D., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon. Jochim pleaded guilty to the charge on March 18, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2013
News Release: - Received benefits for 20 years by alleging he was disabled.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a second woman from Carbon County was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Edwin M. Kosik to serve 40 months in prison on the charge of conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2013
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2013
News Release: Conspiracy Involved over 30,000 Oxycodone Pills.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota man was indicted by a federal grand jury for Distribution of a Controlled Substance and Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2013
News Release: BOISE - William W. Hanson, 35, of Boise, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to one count of passing counterfeit obligations and securities, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Hanson was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boise on April 10, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - David Husmann, 53, of Elizabethtown, PA, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for possessing and distributing child pornography while on supervised release for possession of child pornography. On March 13, 2013, a federal jury found Husmann guilty of the latest charges - his fourth conviction for charges involving crimes against children with a fifth, unrelated, conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former executive with global pharmaceuticals giant Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (BMS) admitted today to trading on inside information regarding a public company that BMS was in the process of acquiring, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Ranking Member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), together with Reps. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) and John Carney (D-Del.), introduced bipartisan legislation to combat and prevent waste, fraud and abuse in Medicare...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kimberly K. Mertz, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that two Romanian citizens were sentenced today by United States District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven for participating in an extensive Internet “phishing" scheme. BOGDAN BOCEANU, 30, was sentenced to 80 months of imprisonment, and ANDREI BOLOVAN, 29, was sentenced to 27 months of imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Darlene Ford, 46, of Temple Hills, Md., pled guilty today to a federal charge stemming from the theft of more than $75,000 from a charter school where she worked as a temporary accounting employee.
