News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: WILMINGTON - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that KEITH EDWARD FRAZIER, 25, of Washington, North Carolina, was sentenced yesterday by Senior United States District Judge James C. Fox to 148 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release for his role in the March 7, 2011, robbery...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: ROCKFORD, Ill. - A DeKalb, Illinois 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...
By EPA Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today advanced H.R. 271, the Resolving Environmental and Grid Reliability Conflicts Act. The commonsense legislation, introduced by Reps. Pete Olson (R-TX) and Mike Doyle (D-PA), will ensure America’s power companies are able to comply with Department...
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) and Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim McDermott (D-WA) today released the following statements on the Senate’s confirmation of Marilyn Tavenner to be Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Cherry Creek, South Dakota man convicted of Assault by Striking, Beating and Wounding was sentenced on May 13, 2013 by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: Cost of Protecting Medicare Beneficiaries from Identity Theft Far Less Than Originally Thought.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces that Lawrence S. Hartman, a/k/a Larry Hartman, a/k/a Larry Hart, a/k/a Lawrence Scott Hartman-Grosser (47, Costa Rica; a U.S. lawyer formerly of New York and Florida), who was arrested on an immigration violation by Nicaraguan authorities...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Robert Charles Beatty, 33, of Virginia Beach, Va., pleaded guilty today to charges in connection with distributing synthetic marijuana at a drug-involved premise.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Kenneth Morral, 31, of Alamogordo, N.M., pleaded guilty this afternoon to a bank robbery charge and admitted robbing the First New Mexico Bank in Hatch, N.M., on Oct. 19, 2012. Morral entered his guilty plea without the benefit of any plea agreement.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today applauded the Senate’s confirmation of Marilyn Tavenner to be administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) by a vote of 91-7. During a committee hearing to consider her nomination last month, Senator Baucus...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Robin Cash, 56, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to a seven-count indictment charging her with four counts of theft concerning programs receiving federal funds, and three counts of willful failure to file a tax return. Cash entered her guilty plea without the benefit of...
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) made the following statement upon announcement that Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Acting Commissioner Steve Miller would resign effective early June.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: Mr. President: Marilyn Tavenner has been nominated to be the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or CMS.
By US DOT Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement after the Senate voted 83 to 14 to pass the Water Resources Development Act of 2013 (WRDA).
By Homeland Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Ranking Member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) highlighted a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) titled, “Data Center Consolidation: Strengthened Oversight Needed to Achieve Cost Savings...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Donald Hunter, a/k/a Pep, age 48, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, today to 188 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute phencyclidine (PCP), cocaine base and heroin; and being a felon in possession of a gun. Judge Titus found that Hunter was an armed career criminal based on four previous drug convictions.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice today reached a comprehensive agreement with the Missoula, Mont., Police Department to ensure that the police department fairly and effectively responds to reports of sexual assault. In May 2012, the Justice Department launched an investigation into allegations...
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., May 15, 2013 - Today, the House Natural Resources Committee approved three bills with bipartisan support that will create jobs, streamline government red-tape, and make America less dependent on foreign critical and strategic minerals.
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: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley is proud to announce today that the U.S. Justice Department has recognized Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) John Luke Walker for his exemplary efforts to protect children. AUSA Walker is the recipient of the Child Protection Award at...
