News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: MOBILE, AL - United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown announces today that Yaman Sencan, David Petersen, Stephen Merry and Timothy Durkin were indicted on May 29, 2013 for the roles in a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme. The indictment was unsealed today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Two men, who flew into Lubbock and arrived at Lubbock Aero on Wednesday evening, April 17, 2013, Michael Gallanter, 48, and Ethan Oliver Wynne-Wade, 31, each appeared this morning before U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings and pleaded guilty to one count of possession with intent to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), announced today that SETH BEOKU BETTS, a principal of Betts and Gambles Global Equities, LLC (“Betts...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today applauded the Senate’s passage of a bill that updates a key program to ensure the latest flu vaccine is available for future flu seasons. The bill covers advanced vaccines under the National...
By State Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced H.R. 2449, legislation to extend for two years the current U.S.-South Korea civilian nuclear energy cooperation agreement, which will expire in March 2014. Chairman Royce issued the following statement upon the legislation’s introduction...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Anthony Michael Davis, 34, of Canton, Michigan, was sentenced to 12 months in prison for violating the federal Clean Air Act, U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today. U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell also ordered Davis to pay $168,029.59 in restitution to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA") and serve two years of supervised release following his release from prison.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and U.S. Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, joined together in a letter to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell to call upon her expertise and experience in the tourism industry to find a solution to the concessioner contract situation that is threatening to shut down Glacier Bay Lodge and the accompanying Day Boat Tour operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today BRUCE ARTHUR HOWARD, 55, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Louise W. Flanagan to 274 months imprisonment and lifetime supervised release for receipt of child pornography. HOWARD had been convicted of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Jefferson County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating the federal drug laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell today sentenced Antwan Derell Jackson (26, Daytona Beach) to 19 years and seven months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Jackson was found guilty following a bench trial on March 28, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: Marcus Trevino, 35, of Grand Prairie, Texas, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on June 20, 2013, on one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud and one count of arson and aiding and abetting. Trevino was arrested in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He received...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Sidney Earl Wheeler III, 33, of Ball, La., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell to 24 months in prison and four years supervised release for manufacture and possession with intent to distribute marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Michael Keith Forrester, age 40, of Denver, Colorado, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver this week on five counts of distribution of child pornography, United States Attorney John Walsh and FBI Denver Special Agent in Charge Thomas Ravenelle announced. Forrester made his initial...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A federal court jury in Providence, R.I., on Wednesday convicted Alvin Pennue, 32, of Indianapolis, Ind., with passing altered United States currency on two occasions and inducing a victim to transport $5,000 from Massachusetts to Rhode Island as part of a Black money scam, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Brian S. Deck, Acting Resident Agent in Charge of the Providence Office of the United States Secret Service.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: “Today’s hearing will address a very important topic - how federal policy can better support a skilled workforce through the reauthorization of the Workforce Investment Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Mathew U. Okorocha, 63, has been indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Okorocha, of Houston, joins Lawrence T. Tyler, 41, also of Houston, in a 10-count superseding indictment, returned June 12, 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Health Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) made the following statements upon the release of the 2013 Medicare and Social Security Trustees Report. According to the report, at the current rate Medicare will go bankrupt in 2026 and Social Security will not be able to pay full benefits in 2033.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittees on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade and Energy and Power today held a joint hearing to discuss the role that the recent American energy boom is having on the country’s manufacturing sector. The panels explored how new technologies and innovation...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement today on a report issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) showing that under the health reform law, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), consumers will receive $500 million in rebates from health insurance companies by Aug. 1, 2013. The report was compiled using 2012 health insurer data.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has opened registration for its 3rd Cybersecurity Framework Workshop, to be held July 10-12, 2013, in San Diego, Calif.
