News from June 2013
By DOE Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Rep. Ellmers: “It’s the number one reason today… employers are not hiring"
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Wednesday, June 26, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. COLUMBUS -- A federal grand jury has indicted Haider Zafar, 35, formerly of Dublin, Ohio, in connection with a $10 million fraud scheme involving false representations...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Michael Wayne Finch, 61, of Sanborn, N.Y., who was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm, was sentenced to time served of 42 months by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing its exploration of reforms to improve the Medicare program, the Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing on “A 21st Century Medicare: Bipartisan Proposals to Redesign the Program’s Outdated Benefit Structure."
By DOE Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today continued its review of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) with a hearing featuring testimony from the government agencies that play a role in implementing the statute: the Environmental Protection Agency...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Ivan D. Smith, 42, of Olney, IL, was indicted on June 18, 2013, on methamphetamine related charges in an Indictment returned by a Federal Grand Jury sitting in East St. Louis, Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today continued its review of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) with a hearing featuring testimony from the government agencies that play a role in implementing the statute: the Environmental Protection Agency...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in a 5-4 decision, that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. Section 3 defined marriage for purposes of federal law as the legal union of a man and woman, thus denying thousands of married gay and lesbian couples federal responsibilities and rights provided all other married couples. Following the decision by the Supreme Court, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City returned an indictment Wednesday charging Paul Ben Zaccardi, a resident of Sandy, Utah, with five counts of presenting false, fictitious and fraudulent claims to the United States, and three counts of passing fictitious obligations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota man convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on June 25, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in (SAC), Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Robert E. O'Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District, announces that Chad (37, St. George, Utah), Jason (38, St. George, Utah), and Timothy (39, Tampa) have pleaded guilty to conspiring...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Yesterday a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 15 defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The indictment...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Announced today by National Park Service Outer Banks Group Superintendent Barclay Trimble, the public comment period for the Cape Hatteras National Seashore proposal to facilitate additional public beach access environment assessment will open July 1, 2013 through Aug. 2, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on June 26, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy, CARLOS DANILO MENJIVAR-ROJAS, a 37-year-old resident of Riverton, Wyoming, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - On June 24, 2013, Lee David Shropshire, 35, of Mesa, Arizona, who pleaded guilty on March 20, 2013, to one count of Distribution of Child Pornography, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snowto 170 months in prison, followed by a lifetime term of supervised release. He is also required to register as a sex offender in compliance with federal, state and local laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: U.S. Attorney Alicia A.G. Limtiaco, Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, was invited by the National Organization of Sisters of Color Ending Sexual Assault (SCESA) to be a speaker at the first ever U.S. Territory Summit on Violence Against Women held on June 25, 2012, in Saipan, Northern...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Gerard Joseph, 36 years old, of La Jolla, California, is charged by indictment1, unsealed today, with conspiracy and wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud the Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Joseph was arrested last night.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Former Pontiac City Councilman, Everett Seay, was sentenced today to 26 months in prison for accepting bribes, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Rep. Ellmers: “It’s the number one reason today… employers are not hiring"
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Part of Largest-Ever Synthetic Drug Takedown.
