News from March 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A Palmview resident accused of robbing the International Bank of Commerce in McAllen has now been convicted, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Erick Lee Chiu, 21, entered a plea of guilty just a short time ago.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: Thanks to burgeoning progress in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), it may soon be possible to track and study, in vivo and in real time, heretofore invisible physiological processes - at scales approaching the cellular level - using MRI technology. Eventually, many experts believe, this will include the ability to target and observe multiple specific cell types in action simultaneously.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 5, 2013 - Today, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power held a legislative hearing on H.R. 678, the “Bureau of Reclamation Small Conduit Hydropower Development and Rural Jobs Act," and H.R. 254, the "Bonneville Unit Clean Hydropower Facilitation Act."Both bills are bipartisan plans to create new American jobs and expand production of clean, renewable hydropower by cutting duplicative, bureaucratic red tape.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Joshua Christopher Gervasi, 19, of Sandpoint, Idaho, was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for unlawfully possessing a firearm, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Gervasi to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term. Gervasi pleaded guilty to the charge on December 4, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JACQUES WAJSFELNER was sentenced today to six months of probation, including three months of home confinement, for willfully failing to file Reports of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (“FBARs") with the...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 5, 2013 - Ever since taking office, President Obama has erected barriers to increased offshore American energy production and systematically closed off new areas to drilling. Study after study has shown that increased offshore energy production will create jobs, grow the economy, lower prices and provide significant revenues to the states and federal government.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Raul Mendoza, age 48, Julia Castillo-Caraveo, age 28, both of Denver, Colorado, and Isidro Noe Mendoza-Ortiz, age 25, of Thornton, Colorado were arrested this morning for structuring and money laundering, the United States Attorney’s Office, IRS Criminal Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Agency...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La: United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Shanji Jin, 38, of Chicago, Ill., Hong Xi, 63, of Flushing, N.Y., and Yuan Chunshan, aka, “Guang Li", 43, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty Wednesday(Feb. 27) before U.S. District Judge Patricia Minaldi to using counterfeit credit cards to fraudulently obtain funds from Louisiana casinos totaling $103,624.81.
By State Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today spoke before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) annual policy conference.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Rafael Lara-Mejia, a/k/a Gabriel Arenas, Martin Muniz Rosado, and Jeffrey Montanez Rivera, a Dominican national living in Providence, was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison for his role in a scheme to steal and sell the identities and corresponding identity documents of Puerto Rican U.S. citizens, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: The importance of freight and passenger rail to America’s transportation system and the economy was the focus of a Congressional hearing today chaired by Rep. Jeff Denham (R-CA).
By State Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: U.S. Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the top Democratic on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the below remarks as prepared for delivery at today’s committee hearing, “North Korea’s Criminal Activities: Financing the Regime.".
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - An Ottawa, Kan., woman has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for running a prescription drug trafficking ring tied to the death of a man who died from taking a mixture of prescription drugs, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL - Senior U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Thomas Eugene Rhoden (48, Zephyrhills) to 9 years and 7 months in federal prison for two bank robberies in October 2012. The court sentenced Rhoden to the high-end of the applicable sentencing guidelines, noting the seriousness of...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host the 26th annual conference of the Federal Information Systems Security Educators' Association (FISSEA) March 19-21, 2013, at its Gaithersburg, Md., headquarters.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: A grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging Divna Maslenjak, 50, with naturalization fraud and misuse of evidence of naturalization, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: Agrees to Pay $45M to Resolve Criminal and Civil Investigations.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Reaz Qadir Khan, 48, a naturalized U.S. citizen residing in Portland, has been arrested on charges of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists for the assistance he allegedly provided to an individual who participated in a May 27, 2009, suicide bomb attack at the headquarters of Pakistan’s intelligence service in Lahore, Pakistan, that killed approximately 30 individuals and injured 300 more.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that the United States has filed a lawsuit against PARK AVENUE MEDICAL ASSOCIATES (“PAMA") and PARK AVENUE MEDICAL ASSOCIATES, P.C. (“PAMA PC"), and related entities, alleging that they billed Medicare for...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - For its leadership and innovation in science and technology, the National Energy Technology Laboratory has earned two Carnegie Science Awards from the Carnegie Science Center. NETL representatives will pick up the Advanced Materials Award and the Corporate Innovation Award at the 17th annual award ceremony to be held May 3, 2013, at Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh.
