News from March 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: Website Established To Facilitate Processing Of Claims.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: Council Bluffs, IA- On March 12, 2013, John R. Clark, age 49, formally a resident of Clarinda, Iowa, was sentenced to 48 months imprisonment for Possession of Child Pornography, to be served consecutively with a sentence Clark is currently serving in Florida for Lewd and Lascivious Act on a Child. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Two Rhode Island men have pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence, R.I., to participating in an international conspiracy to illegally import and distribute prescription drugs and anabolic steroids.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A federal grand jury today indicted a Hudson County, N.J., man for producing and possessing images and videos of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La.: United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Seyba Diallo, 46, of the Central African Republic, was found guilty on Tuesday afternoon by a federal jury on two counts of impeding or hampering his deportation from the United States. United States District Judge Dee D. Drell presided over the trial.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: The U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), today held a hearing entitled, “Keeping College within Reach: Examining Opportunities to Strengthen Federal Student Loan Programs." During the hearing, members and higher education experts discussed the need for a long-term solution to the problem of Stafford Loan interest rates.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - The former mayor of Hamilton Township, N.J., was sentenced today to 38 months in prison in connection with $12,400 in bribes he solicited and accepted in exchange for his official influence in helping a health insurance broker maintain her contract with the township’s school district, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today filed two amendments to the stop-gap government funding bill, H.R. 933. The first amendment blocks federal funds from being used to grant work requirement waivers to those on the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, N.J., woman was arrested this morning for engaging in a credit card fraud and identity theft scheme in which she targeted elderly women, fraudulently obtained their personal information, and used it to open new credit cards or access existing credit cards belonging to these individuals, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: (NEW HAVEN, Conn.)- - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Carl Hailey, also known as “Squirt," 48, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing heroin.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered a speech on the Senate floor today denouncing another Republican attack on the Affordable Care Act. Following is the text of his remarks, as prepared for delivery.
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: Dear Secretary Kerry: I am writing to express my concern about the continued erosion of democracy in Sri Lanka and to urge you to call for an independent international investigation into allegations of war crimes by both the Government of Sri Lanka and the terrorist group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: TYLER, Texas - Three Anderson County, Texas residents have been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: JOHN P. SENS, 52, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt to conspiracy to commit bribery, announced U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: Defendant Guilty of Transporting PCP and Codeine on AmTrak Train.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that, as part of its Barrier-Free Health Care Initiative, it has reached a settlement with Glenbeigh Hospital of Rock Creek, Ohio, under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The settlement resolves allegations that Glenbeigh violated the ADA by denying admission to someone because of HIV. This is the fourth settlement that the Justice Department has reached in six weeks addressing HIV discrimination by a medical provider.
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement in reaction to the election of Pope Francis I:
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Chelsea investment advisor was sentenced yesterday for mail and wire fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement on the House floor in opposition to H.R. 890, a Republican bill to limit state flexibility in administering TANF...
