News from March 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Andrew Jackson, age 39, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine. Jackson remains detained.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Steven J. Sulinski, 54, a former background investigator for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), was sentenced today to three months in prison on a charge stemming from his falsification of work on background investigations of federal employees and contractors, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Patrick E. McFarland, Inspector General for the Office of Personnel Management.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: New report shows visitor spending supports 367 jobs in Arizona.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CID), Miami Field Office, and Larry Gomer, Interim Chief, North Miami Beach Police Department (NMBPD), announce the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ricardo Hunter, 55, was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for two armed robberies, one of a business and the other of an armored truck, as well as an attempted armed robbery of an armored truck and a related weapons offense, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: Michael A. Cooper, 27, of Centreville, IL, was sentenced on March 1, 2013, in United States District Court in East St. Louis, on one count of Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Previously Convicted Felon, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces the sentencing in the United States District Court, Macon Division, of Kerivonte Davis, age 26 of Wrightsville, Georgia,and Jimmy Brown age 25 of Fort Valley, Georgia. Mr. Davis and Mr. Brown entered guilty pleas in...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jerome Clark, 45, of Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to a prison term of five years and two months on a charge stemming from the robbery of a senior citizen in Northwest Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today.
By State Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that he will convene a hearing on Tuesday, March 5 entitled, “North Korea’s Criminal Activities: Financing the Regime.".
By DOE Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations today announced the list of panelists invited to participate in its upcoming forum on mental health. The bipartisan forum, “After Newtown: A National Conversation on Violence and Severe Mental Illness," will take place on Tuesday, March 5, 2013, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. State Department today issued its Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Keystone XL Presidential Permit application, which includes the proposed new route through Nebraska. The SEIS findings are similar to the Department’s FEIS issued last August, which found the pipeline will have limited adverse environmental impacts.
By State Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on the State Department’s Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement regarding the Keystone XL Pipeline:
By EPA Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. State Department today issued its Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Keystone XL Presidential Permit application, which includes the proposed new route through Nebraska. The SEIS findings are similar to the Department’s FEIS issued last August, which found the pipeline will have limited adverse environmental impacts.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) has asked federal agencies to identify unnecessary or wasteful programs within their agency that could be eliminated as an alternative to the spending cuts mandated by sequestration.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - King Chuen Tang was sentenced yesterday for his role in an insider trading scheme in which he and others obtained more than $5 million, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that on Feb. 28, 2013, four residents of Fairbanks, Alaska, were arrested. These individuals were indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage on Feb. 20, 2013, on charges of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. CINCINNATI - A 13-month investigation by the FBI Cincinnati Safe Streets Task Force has resulted in charges against 20 people alleged to be members of a drug trafficking organization in Cincinnati’s East Clifton Avenue area of Over-the-Rhine. FBI tactical...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: Santa Ana, California - A Long Beach man was arrested yesterday and is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon on federal sex trafficking charges that allege he worked with a previously charged defendant to coerce women to work as prostitutes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Anchorage resident Kenneth Browning, 60, was charged with wire fraud, theft of honest services, money laundering, and false tax returns. The same indictment also charges Anchorage resident Jerald Briske, 74, with 22 counts of wire fraud. The offenses charged occurred from May, 2008, through April, 2010.
