News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Two men accused of stealing checks, credit cards and other items from local mailboxes using counterfeit U.S. Postal Service keys, are scheduled to be arraigned by a federal magistrate judge tomorrow afternoon, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By Homeland Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Ranking Member Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK), Chairman Tom Carper (D-DE), and Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) highlighted a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) entitled, Strategic Sourcing: Leading Commercial...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Ran Their Operation from a Buckhead Home.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Lauren Christine Nunez, 20, of Tucson, Ariz., pleaded guilty this afternoon in Las Cruces federal court to methamphetamine trafficking charges under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Her co-defendant Kevin James Fitzgerald, 19, also of Tucson, pleaded guilty to the same methamphetamine trafficking charges on April 16, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: Syracuse, NY-United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian today announced that a federal jury has convicted ROSARIO GAMBUZZA (age 48) of East Syracuse, NY and ERNEST SNELL (age 43) of Syracuse, NY, of conspiring to import and distribute a controlled substance analogue, known on the street as “Molly,"...
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - With the Senate set to vote on Marilyn Tavenner’s nomination to serve as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) later today, Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) spoke on the Senate floor in support of the nominee.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) announced that the Committee will hold a hearing on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) practice of targeting applicants for tax-exempt status based on political leanings. After multiple inquiries from the Ways and Means Committee, the IRS repeatedly denied that they were targeting conservative grassroots organizations.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III, sentenced JOHN MOORE, 22, to 360 months imprisonment followed by five years supervised release. Due to MOORE’s extensive and violent criminal history and the violent acts involving this case, the Court varied upward in imposing the sentence.
By DOL Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In an effort to protect taxpayers and shield college students from a sharp increase in federal Stafford loan interest rates, U.S. Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA), who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Jack Reed (D-RI), along with Majority Leader...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Kirk Robinson, age 45, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was charged by a federal grand jury in Scranton Tuesday, with allegedly being involved in two Luzerne County jewelry store robberies, a bank robbery, as well as, an insurance fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: A federal inmate was sentenced today to life in prison for the violent murder of a fellow inmate in Pennsylvania’s Allenwood Correctional Complex, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania Peter J. Smith.
By DOL Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Ranking Member Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), with Senators Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) and Al Franken (D-Minn.) and other members of the HELP Committee, today introduced legislation-S. 959, ...
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: “We found that core partners highly value the National Weather Service and thought the forecasts for Sandy were quite good - forecasters performed well predicting the track of this extremely large and complex storm, which undoubtedly saved lives," said Peyton Robertson, director of NOAA’s Chesapeake...
By State Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) today spoke at the Bretton Woods Conference, titled “Ending Poverty in a Generation." This was Sen. Menendez’s first speech before the Bretton Woods Conference as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: KLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. - State, federal and local law enforcement agencies today dismantled a large and violent drug trafficking organization in Klamath County, arresting more than 30 suspects and charging them with multiple counts of racketeering and unlawful delivery of methamphetamine. During the course...
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today announced that the Committee will hold a hearing on political targeting at the Internal Revenue Service next Wednesday.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: JOHN PHILIP MORRILL, JR., age 32, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle to one count of assault upon a federal officer, two counts of access device fraud and one count of bank fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By US DOT Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: Mr. Chairman, as you know, this committee has primary jurisdiction over H.R. 3 and two secondary committees of jurisdiction have already considered the bill. So I begin by thanking you for holding this markup session. Whether one agrees with the bill or not, you are preserving our committee’s jurisdiction rather than waiving it which occurred last Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - In Jan. 2012, the owners and operators of a pecan farm in Anthony, N.M., their two sons and four others were arrested on a 24-count indictment alleging federal drug trafficking and money laundering offenses. A ninth defendant, who was separately charged, also was arrested. By Aug. 2012, all nine defendants had pleaded guilty either to drug trafficking or money laundering charges, or both. Today, the case concluded with the sentencing of Sandra L. Portillo.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: ROCKFORD C A DeKalb, Ill. doctor and his wife were arrested today on charges of illegally dispensing controlled substances and federal income tax fraud. RICHARD H. NG, 61, a doctor of osteopathic medicine, and President and sole shareholder of Sauk Medical Clinic with offices located in Sterling and...
