News from June 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) have announced plans to establish a national Center for Advanced Communications in Boulder, Colo. The new center will implement a key provision of a memorandum President Obama issued on "Expanding America's Leadership in Wireless Innovation."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man who illegally possessed a firearm was sentenced on June 25 to one year and three months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Clyde Anderson, Jr., also known as “Smokey," 33, previously pleaded guilty in March to possession of a firearm by an unlawful...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Niyaz Sainudeen, 42, of Bethlehem, PA, was sentenced yesterday to 151 months in prison for distribution, receipt and possession of child pornography. Federal agents found hundreds of images and dozens of videos depicting child pornography on Sainudeen’s computer during a March 8, 2012...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: A Bloomfield Hills resident was sentenced in federal district court late yesterday on charges of defrauding an insurance company and, in a separate case, investment fraud, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Ranking Member, and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa and Chairman Emeritus, released an alarming Government...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New England Field Division, United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Richard DesLauriers, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Boston Field Office announced Cristian Jimenez, a/k/a Alacran, 32, of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Norman Leroy Bogart, 54, of Kingston, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to illegally cutting timber on national forest lands, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. An information charging him with one felony count of willful injury or depredation to property of the United States was filed in United States District Court in Coeur d’Alene on June 17, 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., June 25, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement today on President Obama’s plan to unilaterally impose a national energy tax and wage a war on coal.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative action under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against Florida European Export-Import Co. Inc.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing examining Medicare Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. CINCINNATI - Sylvia Odia Thomas, 40, formerly of West Chester, Ohio was sentenced to 30 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $313,021 in restitution to lenders and $95,422.14 to the IRS for crimes she committed as part...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - A Charleston man was sentenced on June 25 to 18 years in federal prison for distribution of crack cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. James T. Washington, 35, of Charleston, previously pleaded guilty in November 2012. The sentence was handed down by Senior United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that William F. Chappell, 43, of Dansville, N.Y., who was convicted of enticing a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, was sentenced to 14 years in prison and 10 years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted a Honduran man for transporting illegal aliens in the United States and for illegally re-entering the country after having twice been deported last year, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Raymond R. Parmer Jr.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: Below is the Democratic Staff briefing memo for the Full Committee hearing on "The IRS Contracts With Strong Castle, Inc."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The final member of a ten-defendant southwest Idaho methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy was sentenced today in federal court in Boise. Samuel Chavez, 33, was sentenced to 66 months in federal prison for the crime of possession with intent to distribute in excess of 50 grams of methamphetamine. The court also sentenced Chavez to three years of supervised release. He pleaded guilty on March 20, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A former insurance agent has been charged in a federal indictment unsealed here today with stealing almost $2 million from policy holders, including a retired teacher known for her philanthropy, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A Pittsburgh felon has been sentenced in federal court to 30 months imprisonment followed by two years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Michael Richardson and Kendall Lowe, both 22 and of Washington, D.C., have been sentenced to prison terms on charges stemming from a robbery last fall at an apartment building in Northwest Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
