News from March 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Ways and Means Committee announced a new email address,tax.reform@mail.house.gov, as another way for stakeholders, advocacy groups and the public to share information, facts, and data relevant to the Committee's review of current federal income tax law within the Committee’s 11 Tax Reform Working Groups.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: Indictment Alleges That Defendant Mailed Threatening Letters With White Powder.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: Company Commits To Certain Permanent Restrictions And To Continued Cooperation With The Government’s Investigation.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: Officials will begin work to remove a dock that beached on a remote shore within the boundaries of both Olympic National Park and NOAA's Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary in December 2012. NOAA has contracted The Undersea Company of Port Townsend, Wash., to lead the removal. The contractor plans to complete removal efforts by the end of March, depending on weather and tidal conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that ten individuals have been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances in South Dakota between 1993 and 2013. The individuals charged include the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: Anthony Montez Taylor, 45, of East St. Louis, Illinois, was sentenced in United States District Court in East St. Louis, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. The Court determined that Taylor was a career offender under the United States...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and cooperators have developed an interactive atlas of wild plants in Guatemala that are closely related to crop plants. The atlas will make it easier to preserve plants with genes that may be vital to global food security.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement after the Obama Administration released its Trade Policy Agenda for 2013...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on March 1, 2013, Rodney A. Milner, 52, Bismarck, N.D., pleaded guilty and was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on a charge of distribution of materials involving the sexual exploitation of minors.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Sixteen federal, state and local Rhode Island law enforcement agents and officers, and a federal prosecutor from the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island, were recognized today with a top Department of Justice award for their achievements significantly impacting...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Fort Pierre, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: A Chicago, Illinois, man was sentenced to a prison term in federal district court in connection with burglaries of several firearms dealers in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN), Republican Study Committee Chairman Steve Scalise (R-LA), and Rep. Steve Southerland (R-FL) introduced the Preserving Work Requirements for Welfare Programs Act of 2013, prohibiting the Obama Administration from waiving the work requirements that were a critical element of welfare reform enacted in 1996.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Miami Field Office, announced that Rohan Spicer, a Bahamian national, was arrested and charged...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on March 1, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, CHRISTIE ANN MEDICINE TAIL, a 35-year-old resident of Lodge Grass, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A former financial advisor with Bank of America who was indicted in August 2012 on felony mail fraud and tax evasion charges, is scheduled to make an initial appearance in federal court today to answer charges that he defrauded six persons of over $2 million from 2010 to 2011 in an investment fraud scheme, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: Van Buren, MO- The public should be prepared for reduced hours and services provided by Ozark National Scenic Riverways employees due to Government budget cuts. "We want to inform the public of these potential impacts as they make their vacation plans," states Superintendent Bill Black.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A criminal complaint was unsealed today charging two men, from Bourne and New Bedford, with federal narcotics trafficking. The complaint resulted from federal, state and local authorities efforts to reduce violence and drug trafficking in the New Bedford area by identifying and investigating individuals involved in these criminal activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Burlington County, N.J., woman was sentenced today to 12 months of home confinement and five years of probation for making cash deposits totaling more than $700,000 in amounts of less than $10,000 each in order to avoid having banks file a report on her deposits, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released the first copies of furlough notices issued as a result of damaging across-the-board spending cuts imposed by “sequestration." Cummings obtained furlough notices sent to criminal prosecutors across the country in United States Attorney Offices who are charged with prosecuting and convicting domestic criminals and international terrorists.
