News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: Little Rock - Christopher R. Thyer,United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Randall C. Coleman, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced today that a federal grand jury indicted former Arkansas State Treasurer Martha...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today announced the appointment of Karen Brown McAfee as Chief Tax Counsel on the Democratic staff of the Ways and Means Committee. Karen joined the committee staff as Tax Counsel in 2007 and served as Staff Director of the Ways...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement in response to a Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) report he requested: "Transportation Security Administration's Screening of Passengers...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: Hid Liquid Meth Inside of Vehicle Gas Tank.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A construction company executive pleaded guilty in federal court to an Information charging him with mail fraud and filing false tax returns, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Essex County, N.J., man was sentenced today to five months in prison for transporting explosive chemicals in a piece of polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, pipe to Pennsylvania without a federal license or permit, U. S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Tuesday, June 4, 2013, Jimmy Caraballo-Colón was arrested in Caguas, for coercing a female minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing visual depictions of such conduct (production of child pornography), announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Robert Spano, a former Supervisor in Middle Smithfield Township, Monroe County, was sentenced in federal court today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Richard P. Conaboy to a two-year term of probation with four...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement on the Senate’s upcoming vote on student loan interest rate proposals...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford, Ill. man was sentenced today in federal court by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala for wire fraud and identity theft. ANTHONY HARDY, 42, was sentenced to 65 months in federal prison, in addition to 5 years of supervised release following his release from prison, and ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a White River, South Dakota man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact was sentenced on June 3, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: Plans are just about complete for a major new trail bridge across the Schuylkill River within Valley Forge National Historical Park. Scheduled to go under construction this winter and to open in 2015, the bridge will connect the north and south sides of the park, as well as connect the Schuylkill River Trail with the park’s 26 miles of trails and with other regional trails including the Chester Valley Trail and the future Schuylkill River West Trail and Patriots’ Path.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: Right whales are among the most endangered species in the world, and are highly vulnerable to ship collisions. The rules, part of NOAA’s long-standing efforts to recover right whales, are currently scheduled to expire in December 2013. NOAA’s proposal to make them permanent, which includes a 60-day public comment period, was filed at the Federal Register today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Indiana County, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Gregory Grove, 37, of Fayette, N.Y., pleaded guilty to failing to register as a sex offender before U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: Social Security has done its job well for 77 years, paying Americans their earned benefits on time and in full. So it’s easy to forget what a big, important, and complicated job the Social Security Administration does and how much all Americans rely on them to get it right.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: RACHELL THOMAS, age 36, of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud relating to applications for financial assistance in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - One of the leaders of an international data theft ring has been federally charged in New Jersey for his alleged role in a scheme which caused approximately $200 million in fraudulent charges to credit cards issued in the United States and Europe, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Arthur Lee Darby, Jr., 30, of Montgomery, pled guilty yesterday to attempted assault of two postal employees with a gun, discharging a gun during a crime of violence, and possession of a firearm in a federal facility, announced George L. Beck, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore sentenced Nikia Williams yesterday to five and six months in federal prison for theft of government property and aggravated identity theft. As part of her sentence, the court also ordered Williams to forfeit jewelry valued at more than $110,000...
