News from March 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: BOISE - William N. Brockbrader, 40, of Garden Valley, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 30 months in prison followed by ten years of supervised release for failing to register as a sex offender, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Brockbrader to pay a $10,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: DNA Found On Masks Links Men To Robberies Throughout Seattle Area.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Committee Members Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) wrote to Gina McCarthy, nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), regarding the intent of Institute ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: Jayme Dinan, 29, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was charged today by Indictment with two counts of bank robbery, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. -Eric Harroun, 30, of Phoenix, Ariz., was arrested and charged with conspiring to use a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) while fighting with the al-Nusrah Front, which is an alias of “al Qa’ida in Iraq." Al Qa’ida in Iraq has been designated as a foreign terrorist organization since October 2004.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces the return of an indictment charging James Daniel Kasper (29, Jacksonville) with production of child pornography. If convicted, Kasper faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years, and up to 30 years in federal prison. Kasper was arrested on March 20, 2013, on a criminal complaint, and ordered detained by United States Magistrate Judge Joel B. Toomey after a hearing on March 25, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted a Cullman used car dealer for violating federal protections for active-duty military service members by refusing to reduce the loan interest rate and repossessing the vehicle he sold to a man who was later deployed overseas with the Alabama National Guard, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2013
News Release: U.S. Attorney’s Office Continues to Assist the.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Joseph McKinsey Brown, age 29, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 15 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute cocaine, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, in connection with the planned robbery of a drug dealer.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 27, 2013 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Agriculture Under Secretary Dallas Tonsager today made the following statements on Under Secretary Tonsager's departure from USDA: Statement from Under Secretary Dallas Tonsager "After spending twelve gratifying years in leadership positions at the United States Department of Agriculture, I have decided to move on to the next chapter in my life.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department today announced recent results of its civil injunction efforts to combat unscrupulous tax return preparers and tax fraud promoters. According to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) estimates, 60 percent of taxpayers use tax professionals to prepare and file their tax returns. Paid tax ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs Mary Lou Leary announced that Robert L. Listenbee Jr. has assumed the role as administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). A highly respected public defender and juvenile justice system reformer, Listenbee began as OJJDP administrator Monday. Melodee Hanes, who has served as acting administrator since January 2012, will become OJJDP’s principal deputy administrator.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: David Marrero, a federal inmate in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons, was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for tax fraud committed while in prison, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Twenty-four months of the sentence imposed will run concurrent with Marrero’s current 10 year federal sentence, and 22 months will run consecutive to his 10 year sentence. Marrero had pleaded guilty in December 2012 to filing false claims.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: Honeywell Resins and Chemicals LLC has agreed to pay a $3 million civil penalty for alleged Clean Air Act violations at its Hopewell, Va., plant, and improve the facility’s air pollution control equipment and processes, the Justice Department and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it has entered into a consent decree with Summit County, Ohio, and related parties, which if approved by the court, will resolve a sex discrimination lawsuit in which the United States intervened in June 2012. The United States joined a lawsuit brought in ...
By Fed Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board in April will begin a statistical study of household finances, the Survey of Consumer Finances, that will provide policymakers with important insight into the economic condition of all types of American families.
By Fed Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: The use of mobile phones to access a bank account, credit card, or other financial account became more prevalent in the Unites States last year, according to the Federal Reserve Board's latest report on the use of mobile financial services. As of November 2012, 28 percent of all mobile phone users and ...
By Labor Gazette | Mar 27, 2013
News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. – The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced that federal inspectors issued 196 citations, 24 orders and three safeguards during special impact inspections conducted at 11 coal mines and three metal/nonmetal mines last month.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2013
The US Interior Department published a four page notice on March 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Mar 27, 2013
The US Agriculture Department published a two page rule on March 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
