News from March 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2013
News Release: Wyoming County man admits collecting child pornography, pleads guilty to federal crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - In an indictment unsealed today, a Roxbury woman and two Boston men have been charged with sex trafficking of a minor. This is the third sex trafficking case within 10 months to be charged by United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz’s office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2013
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore yesterday sentenced Oneil Marlon Martin, a/k/a David Lawrence (33, Sarasota) to 66 months in federal prison for possessing with intent to distribute marijuana and possessing a firearm in furtherance of that drug trafficking crime. The court also ordered Martin to forfeit two firearms and assorted ammunition which were used, or intended to be used, to facilitate the offenses. Martin pleaded guilty on Jan. 3, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2013
News Release: A Waterloo college student who was selling crack cocaine was sentenced on March 26, 2013 to seven years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2013
News Release: t. PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Corey Kidd, 31, formerly of Warwick, was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison for failure to register as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha; United States Marshal Jamie A. Hainsworth;...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2013
News Release: SAN JOSE - A San Jose federal grand jury indicted Rosemarie Gan, of Fremont, on March 13, 2013 with five counts of wire fraud, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal grand jury in Scranton returned an indictment today charging a Luzerne County man with the receipt, distribution and possession of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 26, 2013
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Eastern States (BLM ES) office will hold a quarterly, competitive oil and gas lease sale on June 20, 2013, at the BLM ES office located at 7450 Boston Boulevard, Springfield, Virginia. The sale is open to the public. Parking is available. The Public Room at the BLM ES office...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2013
News Release: Criminal charges have been filed against eleven individuals for their roles in four Michigan-based federal student-loan fraud schemes totaling more than $1 million, announced Inspector General Kathleen Tighe of the U.S. Department of Education and Barbara McQuade, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Waltham police officer was charged today with sending and receiving child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 26, 2013
News Release: KEYSTONE, SD: According to the 2013 FamilyFun Travel Awards, Mount Rushmore National Memorial ranks as the top tourist attraction. The awards will be announced in the April issue of FamilyFun magazine. Mount Rushmore also ranked number five in the top ten overall favorite family destinations.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today announced the panel will hold a hearing on April 25, 2013, to examine the Universal Service Fund’s Lifeline program, which has tripled in size from $800 million in 2009 to $2.2 billion per year in 2012. In advance...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 26, 2013
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Effective March 1, 2013, Cape Lookout National Seashore was required by "sequestration" (a series of automatic, across-the-board permanent spending cuts) to reduce its annual budget by five percent. The park must absorb that cut in the remainder of this fiscal year that ends September 30. The federal law imposing sequestration requires that each park make this cut.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 26, 2013
News Release: Biscayne National Park Superintendent Brian Carlstrom and Everglades National Park Superintendent Dan Kimball welcome the City of Homestead's resolution naming itself as, "The Gateway to the Everglades and Biscayne National Parks." The City of Homestead approved the resolution during the March 20 Homestead City Council Meeting.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 26, 2013
News Release: On Tuesday, April 9th at 9:00 a.m., Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) will join Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District for a field hearing entitled, “Reviving our Economy: The Role of Higher Education in Job Growth and Development." The field hearing will take place at Monroe County Community College, Administration Building Room #173, located at 1555 S. Raisinville Road in Monroe, Michigan.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Strengthening its oversight of the Obama administration’s nuclear export policies, House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to Energy Secretary Steven Chu seeking information to evaluate changes to federal regulations regarding the export of civilian nuclear technologies...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota man convicted of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, was sentenced on March 25, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Congressman Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released a new report issued by the Inspector General of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) finding that FHFA failed to properly monitor the business practices...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Strengthening its oversight of the Obama administration’s nuclear export policies, House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to Energy Secretary Steven Chu seeking information to evaluate changes to federal regulations regarding the export of civilian nuclear technologies...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today released “Meet Your Oversight Watchdogs: Rep. Ron DeSantis, " the next in a series of videos introducing Oversight committee members to the American people. Rep. DeSantis serves the people of Florida’s 6th Congressional District as a member of both the Economic Growth, Job Creation, and Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee and Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, and the Census Subcommittee.
