News published on Federal Newswire in March 2013

News from March 2013


News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On March 18, 2013, Lane Anderson, age 38, was sentenced to four years imprisonment for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Chief United States District Judge James E. Gritzner also sentenced Anderson to five years supervised release following imprisonment.


News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On March 19, 2013, Demarcos Montel Wright, 33, of Springfield, Oregon, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Ann Aiken to 77 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and felon in possession of a firearm. Upon his release from prison, Wright will be on supervised release for three years.


BLM Accepts Comments for the 2013 Special Recreation Permit Applications

News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Uncompahgre Field Office is seeking public comments on 29 Special Recreation Permit applications, including four new applications and 25 applications for renewals.


News Release: It is unconscionable to legislate discrimination, and I cannot condone the use of taxpayer dollars to defend a discriminatory law at ANY time -especially when these senseless cuts have placed an even greater burden on the operations and effectiveness of this chamber.


News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - An Inland Empire man who molested at least three children, photographed the abuse and traded those images over the Internet with other pedophiles was sentenced this morning to 25 years in federal prison.


Gerrardstown Resident Enters Plea In Federal Court

News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.


News Release: Memphis, TN - Clarence Mumford, Jr., 29, of Memphis, TN, pled guilty today to aiding and abetting identification fraud in connection with the teacher certification cheating scam directed by ringleader Clarence Mumford, Sr., 59, of Memphis, announced United States Attorney for the Western District of...


News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on March 18, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen, DUSTIN ROY GILPIN, a 33-year-old resident of Kalispell, pled guilty to receipt of obscenity. Sentencing has been set for July 2, 2013. He is currently released on special conditions.


Rochester Man Sentenced For Swindling $11 Million From Investors

News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Yesterday in federal court, a 35-year-old Rochester man was sentenced for swindling more than $11 million through an investment scam. On March 18, 2013, United States District Court Judge Ann D. Montgomery sentenced Jason Michael Meyer to 60 months in federal prison on one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering. Meyer was charged on Aug. 21, 2012, and pleaded guilty on Sept. 18, 2012.


News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Crystal Graham, 42, of Philadelphia, was charged today by indictment with filing false claims with the United States through federal income tax returns she prepared for clients, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the indictment, Graham created bogus wage...


News Release: WASHINGTON - Alonzo Douglas Hebron, 53, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to five years in prison for stabbing a man in the neck with a screwdriver during an altercation in Northeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.


Hatch Statement at Finance Committee Hearing Examining the Obama Administration’s Trade Agenda

News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing examining the Obama Administration’s trade agenda for 2013...


News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A Huntsville-area Methadone treatment center has agreed to pay the United States a $95,000 penalty for numerous record-keeping and inventory violations cited in a 2012 regulatory investigation, announced Acting U.S. Attorney John H. England III and Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay A. Morris.


Timber Lake Man Charged With Assault

News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Timber Lake, South Dakota man has been charged by Information with Assault by Striking, Beating and Wounding.


Committee to Host Roundtable on Ports: Jobs, Economic Development, and Trade

News Release: Leaders of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment will host a bipartisan roundtable on Thursday to discuss ports, jobs, economic development, and trade.


News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 43-year-old career criminal was sentenced for possessing a stolen.45-caliber, semi-automatic pistol. United States District Court Judge Joan N. Ericksen sentenced Michael Scott Canfield, of St. Paul, to 188 months in federal prison on one count of being a...


Baucus Statement on the 2013 Trade Agenda and Job Creation

News Release: The English philosopher Sir Francis Bacon once said, “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.".


News Release: In the 11 tax reform working groups that we set up on a bipartisan basis, based on reports to date and my personal participation, we are making progress toward understanding present laws and their pluses and minuses and their possible implications for the policy challenges we face.


News Release: Five Doctors, Four Pharmacists, and Home Health Agency Owner among those indicted in follow-up to the Babubhai Patel case.


News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury.