News from May 2013
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: The best-selling business author Tom Peters once said, “If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.".
By State Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement upon House passage of H.R. 1580, bipartisan legislation that seeks to ensure the Internet remains free from international regulation by preserving the multi-stakeholder model that governs the Internet...
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC), the nationwide network that promotes and strengthens technology transfer from its membership of 300 federal laboratories and centers, recently honored two officials from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that Larry Wayne Bruce, 61, of Leesville, La., was sentenced on Monday by U.S. District Judge Richard T. Haik to serve five years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for failing to pay corporate payroll taxes collected...
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: FAIRFAX, VA - Today, ahead of a field hearing to be held at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations released a chart detailing the Government Accountability Office’s analysis of the Administration’s progress on the...
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Uncompahgre Field Office signed a Decision Record completing the environmental analysis for the Ridgway Comprehensive Travel Management Plan Environmental Assessment. The decision features an inter-connecting trail system and two parking area/staging areas on public lands about two miles northeast of Ridgway, Colo.
By State Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 1:15 p.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing to examine U.S. policy toward Iran. The hearing is entitled “Preventing a Nuclear Iran.".
By USDA Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative action under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against Triple A Grocers Inc.
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: Shiloh National Military Park's interpretive film, Shiloh - Fiery Trial, was honored with a Special Jury Award (First Place) at this year's Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival which took place in April. Worldfest, which began in 1961, is the oldest international film festival in the southern...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - William Hlushmanuk, a/k/a “Bill Le," 35, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 92 months in prison for his participation in a health care fraud conspiracy involving ambulance services that were not medically necessary. Hlushmanuk pleaded guilty on February 5, 2013 to health care fraud...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Richard D. Crisman, 28, of Rio Rancho, N.M., was sentenced today to 97 months in federal prison followed by 25 years of supervised release for his conviction for receipt of child pornography. Crisman also was ordered to pay a $15,000.00 fine. He will be required to register as a sex offender...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: A federal grand jury in Seattle today indicted CHRISTINA D. CARLSON, 37, an enrolled member of the Tulalip Tribes with second degree murder and two counts of criminal mistreatment related to the October, 2012 death of her young daughter and the neglect of her second daughter, announced U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. CARLSON will be arraigned on the indictment on May 23, 2013 in U.S. District Court in Seattle.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: Defendant Was Dealing Oxycodone While Possessing Multiple Firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Porcupine, South Dakota man convicted of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury was sentenced on May 3, 2013 by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, United States District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael J. DePalma, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Miami Field Office, Ronald Verrochio, Inspector in Charge, U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), and Scott J.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Sutton, Mass., man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Springfield for bank fraud and making false statements on a loan application.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Joel Tillett, 36, of Whitehall, PA, pleaded guilty yesterday to charges in connection with a mortgage fraud conspiracy. Tillett, the former general manager of Madison Funding, Inc., a now-defunct Allentown mortgage loan origination company, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and to forging or counterfeiting loan documents. The fraud conspiracy caused mortgage lending businesses to issue millions of dollars’ worth of loans that were based on false information.
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i - Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park is pleased to announce that the Record of Decision for the Plan for Protecting and Restoring Native Ecosystems by Managing Non-Native Ungulates has been signed. The Record of Decision describes the alternative the National Park Service (NPS) has selected to implement and why, and completes this important planning effort for the park.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: Kanawha Co. man sentenced to 3 years in federal prison for possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Lawrence Presley O’Dell, 25, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced this morning to 37 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his involuntary manslaughter conviction. O’Dell also was ordered to pay $9,455.74 in restitution to cover funeral costs for the victim.
