News from March 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: Subcommittees: * Oversight and Investigations (113th Congress) . As part of the ongoing review by the House Energy and Commerce Committee into mental health issues raised by the Newtown tragedy, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) and ranking member Diana DeGette (D-CO) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that THEODORE L. FREEDMAN, a former senior partner at a major international law firm (the “Law Firm"), pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to four counts of tax fraud for under-reporting his partnership income at the Law Firm by a total of approximately $2 million from 2001 to 2004. FREEDMAN pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Deborah A. Batts.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A former mail sorter for the U.S. Postal Service in Las Vegas was sentenced today to two years in federal prison after he was caught stealing items from the mail, including credit and debit card information, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: The Statue of Liberty Fire Brigade has received a donation of equipment from the Gear Up Foundation, including boots, coats, pants, hoods, gloves, helmets, Scott packs and cylinders, flashlights, and face masks.The donation replaces some of the Brigade's fire and rescue equipment and supplies stored on Liberty and Ellis Islands that were destroyed by Hurricane Sandy.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Representative Nick J. Rahall, top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today was joined by Committee Members in introducing legislation to ensure that all Federal transportation and infrastructure investments support American jobs and domestic manufacturing.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Robert Pitman, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Acting Special Agent in Charge Vincent Iglio, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Javier Pena, and Texas Department of...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - Three defendants are facing mandatory life imprisonment after a federal jury found them guilty of racketeering conspiracy, murder in aid of racketeering, and related crimes after a six-week trial in U.S. District Court. Two brothers, JULIO and MANUEL LEIJASANCHEZ, who operated a lucrative...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A man from Colombia, charged in an international cocaine conspiracy in 2010, made his initial appearance in federal court today after he was ordered to be extradited to the United States from Colombia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - James Corbin, 64, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 15 years in prison on carjacking, robbery and theft charges in the violent takeover of two cars in a single afternoon, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - In a letter sent today, Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Tim Johnson (D-SD), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, and Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, ...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Speaker John Boehner and Republican leaders today urged President Obama to support House Republicans’ efforts to help Americans suffering from pre-existing conditions obtain affordable health care. On Feb. 15, 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced it...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bryan Underwood, a former civilian guard at a U.S. Consulate compound under construction in China, was sentenced today to nine years in prison in connection with his efforts to sell for personal financial gain classified photographs, information and access related to the U.S. Consulate to China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS).
By EPA Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Speaker John Boehner and Republican leaders today urged President Obama to support House Republicans’ efforts to help Americans suffering from pre-existing conditions obtain affordable health care. On Feb. 15, 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced it...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: Three people were indicted on charges related to a conspiracy to distribute two kilograms of cocaine, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: How the semiconductor industry can create the next generations of nanoscale computing technology will be one of the themes of the 2013 International Conference on Frontiers of Characterization and Metrology for Nanoelectronics, to be held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), March 25-28, 2013, at its campus in Gaithersburg, Md.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: Subcommittees: * Oversight and Investigations (113th Congress) . As part of the ongoing review by the House Energy and Commerce Committee into mental health issues raised by the Newtown tragedy, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) and ranking member Diana DeGette (D-CO) ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today convened a bipartisan forum “After Newtown: A National Conversation on Violence and Severe Mental Illness." Members heard from leading experts in the mental health community as well as parents of children who suffer and have suffered from mental illness.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: New Dates for Popular Programs Added to Meet Demand - Experts to Lead Small Groups Backpacking to Lyell Glacier, Photographing "Moonbows" and on Family Camping Jamborees.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that the former Executive Director of the Northeastern Intermediate Unit #19 was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to 33 months’ imprisonment and a $30,000 fine for fraud and theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2013
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Donald Paul Hankey, 28, of San Jose, California, pleaded guilty today to an indictment charging him with one count of felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Hankey appeared before U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge at the federal courthouse in Coeur d’Alene.
