News from June 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ahead of President Obama’s climate change speech today, Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) joined Fox Business Network’s Stuart Varney and Co. to highlight the destructive consequences of the administration’s war on coal. The president’s plan seeks to circumvent...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Maurice Hester, of Milledgeville, Georgia, was sentenced today by the Honorable Marc T. Treadwell in Macon, Georgia, to serve a total of sixty-four (64) months in prison and three (3) years of supervised release...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: Karl Norman Gellert, 48, of Bellevue, Tennessee was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in Nashville to Attempt to Entice a Minor to Engage in Criminal Sexual Activity, announced David Rivera, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a new reference material-a sort of standardized sample-of cellular scaffolds for use in tissue engineering research.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that KRYSTOPHER DIBELLA, 25, of West Suffield, pleaded guilty yesterday before United States Magistrate Judge Holly B. Fitzsimmons in Bridgeport to one count of aiding and abetting the failure to make a proper entry on an ATF Form 4473, a form that must be completed by individuals who purchase firearms from federally-licensed firearms dealers.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s announcement that he will direct the State Department to approve construction of the Keystone XL pipeline only if it will not lead to a net increase in overall greenhouse gas emissions...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Kenneth Fay, age 54, most recently a resident of Missouri, pleaded guilty Monday before U.S. District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner to charges that he failed to pay child support.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney, Kenyen Brown announces that Sandra Carter, a 50 year old Theodore resident pled guilty today to one count of falsifying tax returns by claiming business losses and education tax credits for customers when no such losses or credits were justified. While Ms. Carter pled guilty to one violation of Title 26 U.S.C., Section 7206(2), she agreed to pay $144,565.00 in restitution for 17 false returns she filed for tax years 2009 and 2010.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: RUTLAND, Vt. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that today Andrew Williams, 25, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to imprisonment for 51 months on...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Shelby County v. Holder that Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is unconstitutional...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Eddie Shirley, 28, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to using and brandishing a firearm in relation to a crime of violence on the Navajo Indian Reservation. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Shirley will be sentenced to not less than seven years in federal prison.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement in response to the President's announcement on his plan to combat climate disruption.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Oswaldo Rafael Borrego-Ramos aka “Baldo," 31, a Mexican national and leader of an international smuggling ring, has been sentenced for recruiting local persons to illegally purchase firearms for his organization, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. He pleaded guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: Antonio Jeffcoat, 25, was charged today by indictment with Hobbs Act robbery, using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence and a drug trafficking crime, and possession with the intent to distribute Schedule II narcotics. The indictment charges that the defendant committed these offenses in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on or about April 23, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: King Salmon, Alaska - Effective immediately, open fires may be built as allowed by park regulations on all park lands within Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve and coastal lands east of the Aleutian Range within Katmai National Park. All interior lands within Katmai National Park and Preserve and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on June 25, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Carolyn S. Ostby, the following individuals were arraigned.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - During today’s remarks on climate, President Obama stated that he would support the Keystone XL pipeline only if it will not significantly affect climate change, stating, “Our national interest will be served only if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution."
By DOE Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement in response to President Obama’s speech on climate:
By EPA Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ahead of President Obama’s climate change speech today, Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) joined Fox Business Network’s Stuart Varney and Co. to highlight the destructive consequences of the administration’s war on coal. The president’s plan seeks to circumvent...
