News from March 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA -- United States Attorney Timothy J. Heaphy announced today that Ronald Green, 49, of Isom, KY., was sentenced in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon to serve twenty years in prison for his involvement in the robbery of a bank in Norton, Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A husband and wife from Newport Coast have been sentenced to federal prison for defrauding a consortium of seven banks, including Bank of America, in connection with a $130 million line of credit.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today introduced the Hydropower Improvement Act of 2013. The bipartisan legislation is co-sponsored by Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), James Risch (R-Idaho), Maria Cantwell (D-Washington), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Patty Murray (D-Washington), and Mark Begich (D-Alaska).
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: Park to Remove Non-Historic Rigging Shed from Central Wharf.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: Alamogordo, NM. White Sands National Monument will waive entrance fees for all visitors on Sunday, March 17th to honor participants and their families in the 24th annual Bataan Memorial Death March. Families and friends of death march participants will be able to enjoy the day in the dunes while waiting...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Chad F. Summers, 40, of Albuquerque, N.M., was arraigned this morning on an indictment charging him with child pornography and firearms offenses. The indictment against Summers was announced by U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales and Special Agent in Charge Dennis A. Ulrich, II, of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in El Paso, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: DENVER - The owner/operator of Disaster Restoration, Inc., Michael Arthur Griggs, age 58, of Lafayette, Colorado, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Marcia S. Krieger to serve 50 months in federal prison today for conspiracy and mail fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced David Ector, age 55, of Lusby, Maryland, today to two years probation after Ector pleaded guilty to discharging fill material into the Chesapeake Bay without a permit, in violation of the Clean Water Act. As a special condition of his sentence, Chief Judge Chasanow ordered that the defendant remove, at his own expense, all fill material discharged into the Chesapeake Bay.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the ongoing effort to protect taxpayer dollars, Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today continued their examination of the president’s broadband stimulus programs, requesting information from both the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and Government...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: GREENVILLE, S.C. - On March 5, 2013, the Greenville County Sheriff’s (GCSO) and the Greenville City Police (GCPD) arrested 39-year old Shannon Tekoites Davis, 30-year old Mikesha Renee Maddox, 50-year old Billie Joyce Glenn and 24-year old Renee Ann Wakefield, in connection with a 16-month long joint investigation with the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: Phillips-Ellis admits to stealing more than $80,000 from the Town of Pineville.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) released the following statement after President Obama signed into law the Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2013, a bill he sponsored and helped move through the Senate in his role as Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the ongoing effort to protect taxpayer dollars, Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today continued their examination of the president’s broadband stimulus programs, requesting information from both the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and Government...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 114,300 metric tons of grain sorghum to unknown destinations during the 2012/2013 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan testified today on behalf of the U.S. Justice Department in Washington, D.C before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations. The topic of the hearing was “Investigating and Prosecuting 21st Century...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Emoru Oboke Obbanya was sentenced March 12, 2013, to 27 months in prison for possessing a destructive device, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag, Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Riehl of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, San Francisco Field Office (FBI).
By DOE Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today continued its bipartisan oversight of the Department of Energy’s management of our nation’s nuclear security enterprise with a hearing to examine the management and administrative...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the ongoing effort to protect taxpayer dollars, Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today continued their examination of the president’s broadband stimulus programs, requesting information from both the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and Government...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - The owner of an Olathe drywall contracting company has pleaded guilty to failing to pay more than $370,000 in federal income taxes, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Techota, LLC has agreed to pay the United States $150,000 to resolve claims in a federal qui tam lawsuit that it violated the False Claims Act by making false claims for payment to Medicare for home health care services, announced George L. Beck, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District...
