News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Earl Eugene Hampton (58, Mulberry) to 30 years in federal prison for conspiring with others to distribute cocaine. The court also ordered Hampton to forfeit a 2004 Dodge Quad Cab ST recreational vehicle (RV), which was traceable to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Mercer County couple have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on charges of conspiracy, making or subscribing a false tax return, and aiding and assisting the making or subscribing of a false tax return, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing on “Reforming SGR: Prioritizing Quality in a Modernized Physician Payment System." The hearing comes on the heels of a draft legislative framework released last week by the Energy and Commerce Committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: ATLANTA - Detrick Mattox, who operated numerous fraudulent work-from-home businesses has been sentenced to over two years in prison for conspiring to commit mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael J. DePalma, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Paula A. Reid, Special Agent in Charge, United States Secret Service (USSS), Ronald Verrochio, Inspector in Charge...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: Ribbon-Cutting of Anza Trail Improvements at Peralta Hacienda Brings Together City, Regional, State & National Parks.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing on “Reforming SGR: Prioritizing Quality in a Modernized Physician Payment System." The hearing comes on the heels of a draft legislative framework released last week by the Energy and Commerce Committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: Three people from Cleveland were named in a seven-count indictment for their roles in an armed robbery, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - DEA Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman today announced the arrests of 18 of 21 suspected members of a cocaine trafficking organization operating in Cochise County. The 12 month long investigation targeted drug trafficking activity in the SierraVista and Bisbee area. Three individuals remain at large.
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 regarding news from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) that small knives and certain sports equipment will be kept on the prohibited items list. Ranking...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said today after Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius admitted to asking health care companies to support Enroll America, the private group headed by a former Obama Administration official and charged with getting Americans to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), “raises even more ethical and legal questions.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: BOISE - U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced today the sentencing of Dennis James, 47, of San Pablo, California, and Jesse Ray Delgado, 47, of Boise, Idaho, for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. The defendants were indicted in separate cases.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: Yosemite Conservancy funds new exhibit that celebrates American Indian basketry.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Alonso Martinez, 26, of Earlimart, California, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for possession of 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine with intent to deliver, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Martinez, born in Mexico but a naturalized citizen of the United States, was also...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Adrian Leary, age 33, of Eatonville, Florida, was sentenced on June 3, 2013 to 105 months in prison to be followed by four (4) years of supervised release after pleading guilty to Possession with Intent to Distribute...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: Calls on both Public Sector and Private Industry to reduce food waste WASHINGTON, June 4, 2013 – Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), in collaboration with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched the U.S. Food Waste Challenge, calling on others across the food chain—including ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: Ashraf Hassan-Gouda, a former resident of Mays Landing, N.J., was sentenced today in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey to 541 days in prison, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. The approximately 18 month sentence is for time served. Previously, Hassan-Gouda had pleaded guilty to willfully assisting in the preparation of a false federal individual income tax return for a client.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: The owner of a window installation company located in Mt.Laurel, N.J. admitted today he converted to cash millions of dollars in the company’s gross receipts and used the money to pay his workers without withholding employment taxes announced, Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, and Kathryn Keneally, Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division.
By Commerce News Now | Jun 4, 2013
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on June 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jun 4, 2013
The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on June 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
