News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: A man who distributed child pornography was sentenced June 25, 2013, to fifteen years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: Failed to Report Income and Assets Totaling Over $740,000 and Attempted to Fraudulently Discharge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: SAN JOSE - Tara Denise Bonelli was sentenced to 37 months in prison by United States District Judge Edward J. Davila in San Jose, California, on June 25, 2013, for defrauding investors of over $3,000,000, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury in Buffalo has returned a one count indictment charging Amber Pawlak, 21, of Buffalo, N.Y., with concealing a person from arrest. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, four individuals were sentenced for their roles in a large, multi-state, identity theft ring. United States District Court Judge Paul A. Magnuson sentenced Donyea Terrell Collins, age 27, of Richfield, to 55 months in prison; Derek Charles Estelle...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Helena, on June 27, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, LIANG WANG, a 25-year-old resident of San Gabriel, California, and KE XU, a 30-year-old resident of Monterey, California, were each sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: Today, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee held a full committee Markup of H.R. 2131, the “Supplying Knowledge-based Immigrants and Lifting Levels of STEM Visas Act (The SKILLS Visa Act)." This comes on the heels of a full committee Markup yesterday of H.R. 1772, the “Legal Workforce Act," that would ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: JAMES SELF, 29, a resident of St. Helena Parish, was sentenced today to 70 months imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release by U. S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo after pleading guilty to cocaine and marijuana charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., June 27, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) delivered the following floor statement today in support of H.R. 2231, the Offshore Energy and Jobs Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - Mohamdad Jabal was sentenced yesterday afternoon by U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade to six months in federal prison and six months home confinement, following his guilty plea in March 2013 to one count of structuring. According to the plea agreement filed in the case, Jabal has made full restitution...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: - 21 defendants prosecuted on multiple charges of money laundering and distribution of more than 1000 kilograms of marijuana.
By State Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the Senate passed legislation authored by U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; it now heads to the President’s desk. Royce’s legislation, H.R. 1151, which passed the House of Representatives last week, calls for the Secretary of State to endorse Taiwan’s entry into the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - More than 500 youths gathered at Friendship Collegiate Academy in Northeast Washington today for a summit sponsored by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia that featured presentations about issues facing young people here and nationwide, including bullying, sexual assaults, street gangs, and drug abuse.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, released the following statement in response to a New York City council decision to override a mayoral veto and enact a law that would allow workers to earn up to five paid sick days per year...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota man convicted of Larceny was sentenced on June 24, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In an effort to protect taxpayers and prevent the interest rate on need-based student loans from doubling on millions of Americans, U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today joined 38 Senate Democrats to introduce a fully paid for bill to lock in the rate at 3.4 percent for one year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: POCATELLO - U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced that Tyler Harwood, 30, of Idaho Falls, was sentenced yesterday to one year probation for violating the Clean Air Act by negligently releasing a hazardous air pollutant. U.S. Magistrate Judge Ronald E. Bush also fined Harwood $250, and ordered him to take a class for property owners on following EPA guidelines. Harwood pleaded guilty on April 25, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: ATLANTA - Justin Cody, also known as “Decatur Slim," was arraigned on federal charges of conspiracy to commit theft of public funds, theft of public funds, and aggravated identity theft.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), today held a hearing on “A Tangle of Trade Barriers: How India’s Industrial Policy is Hurting U.S. Companies." The United States and India have a strong and growing trade relationship, with India...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held a hearing on “Equipping Carriers and Agencies in the Wireless Era." The subcommittee heard from government and private sector witnesses as members continue to discuss...
