News from March 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Charles Rangel (D-NY) issued the following statements today after the Obama Administration provided Congress formal notice that it intends to launch negotiations for a comprehensive trade and investment agreement with the European Union.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: Defendant Charged With Plotting To Kill U.S. Servicemen In Afghanistan And Bomb U.S. Diplomatic Buildings In Nigeria.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: Doctor Continued To Write Prescriptions After Surrender Of His DEA Registration Allowing Him To Prescribe Controlled Substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: DENVER - David N. Hawkins, age 43, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, pled guilty late last week before U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn to one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering, the United States Attorney’s Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and IRS - Criminal Investigation announced. Hawkins, who is free on bond, is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Blackburn on June 7, 2013 at 11:00 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: Operation Had Connections to Florida, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Skidmore, Mo., man was charged in federal court today with illegally possessing a firearm after he attempted to flee from law enforcement officers.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: A new set of publications from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) could make it easier, faster, and most importantly, more reliable, for forensic examiners to match a set of fingerprints with those on file in any database, whether local, state or national.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 47-year-old Le Center man pleaded guilty to receiving several videos containing child pornography. Harold Duane Davenport pleaded guilty to one count of receipt of child pornography. Davenport, who was indicted on November 5, 2012, entered his plea before United States District Court Judge David S. Doty.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that on March 20, 2013, Paul R. Kramer, 63, of Vincennes, Indiana, pled guilty in federal district court to making false statements to Federal Bureau of Investigation agents.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee adopted several bills designed to cut waste and abuse of taxpayer dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal firearms laws and laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Committee on Ways and Means Human Resources Subcommittee Member Congressman Tom Reed (R-NY) and Human Resources Subcommittee Ranking Member Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), along with Chairman Dave Reichert (R-WA) and Members of the Human Resources Subcommittee introduced H.R. 948, the Standard...
By State Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement to commemorate the Persian New Year:
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for calling this important hearing. As you know, the taxation of derivatives is an issue that I have worked on for some time. In fact, when I was Chairman of this subcommittee, we held two hearings on the tax treatment of derivatives and "exchange traded notes" or "ETNs." And...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: The great American inventor, Thomas Edison, often liked to challenge his colleagues saying, "There's a way to do it better-find it.".
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: SAN JOSE, CA- A federal jury convicted Vallejo resident Myra Holmes yesterday of one count of Bankruptcy Fraud, one count of Bank Fraud, and three counts of Making a False Statement to a Bank, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced. The guilty verdict followed a three-week trial before U.S. District Court Judge Edward J. Davila. The jury acquitted Myra Holmes on two other false statement counts.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) issued the following statement after the Obama Administration formally notified Congress of its intent to launch negotiations on a comprehensive trade and investment agreement with the European Union (EU)...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - Federal and state authorities this morning arrested 10 defendants charged in a federal criminal complaint that accuses them of participating in a wide-ranging drug conspiracy that operating marijuana grow houses across Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - William Winzenburg, Jr., 27, of Albuquerque, N.M., was arraigned this morning on an indictment charging him with child pornography offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Mercer County, N.J., woman today admitted her role in conspiring with Joseph “JoJo" Giorgianni, Charles Hall III and others to illegally distribute oxycodone pain pills, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
