News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: Cache Included Military-Style Assault Rifles, Handguns and Shotgun.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today ERWIN ANTONIO RIOS, a 19 year old resident of Fayetteville, North Carolina, pled guilty in front of United States Magistrate Judge James E. Gates to possession of a stolen firearm in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(j).
By DOE Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders commented on the guilty verdict in the trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell. Last week, full committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Vice Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Chairman Emeritus Joe Barton (R-TX), Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), Oversight...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Twelve Los Angeles-area residents - including California’s second-largest biller for chiropractic services, a physician’s assistant, and owners of durable medical equipment (DME) and ambulance companies - were taken into custody today in relation to seven criminal cases that allege they cumulatively submitted more than $22 million in false billings to Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Juan Roberto Rincon-Rincon, one of the highest ranking members of the Gulf Cartel, has been ordered to federal prison for life following his convictions related to a large drug trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today along with Vincent Iglio...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A man who perpetrated a million-dollar investment fraud from California that defrauded New Jersey victims was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for crimes related to the scheme, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on May 10, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen, KEITH DANIEL SKUNKCAP, a 21-year-old resident of Browning and an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Warren, Ohio, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal narcotic laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. today sentenced Jose Manuel Rivera, Jr. (35, Melbourne) to the statutory maximum of 20 years in federal prison for receipt of child pornography. The court also ordered Rivera to serve a 25-year term of supervised release following his release from prison, and to forfeit the computer equipment he used to commit the offense. Rivera pleaded guilty on Feb. 22, 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: The Committee on Energy and Commerce has scheduled a full committee hearing for Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Cyber Threats and Security Solutions." Witnesses to be announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Cranberry Township, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of union embezzlement, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today led House debate on H.R. 1580, legislation to affirm the policy of the United States regarding Internet governance and preserve Internet freedom. The bipartisan legislation, which...
By US DOT Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today made the following statement following a meeting with Bob Perciasepe, Acting Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: A class of water-loving, jelly-like materials with uses ranges ranging from the mundane, such as superabsorbent diaper liners, to the sophisticated, such as soft contact lenses, could be tapped for a new line of serious work: testing the biological effects of nanoparticles now being eyed for a large variety of uses.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - Three Fitchburg men were convicted today in federal court on charges related to the distribution of crack cocaine.
By DOL Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, released the following statement in response to a new report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) examining the existing body of research linking sodium intake to health outcomes and...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in New Haven has found WILNER CASTELIN, also known as “Castro," 44, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., guilty of narcotics and money laundering charges stemming from his role in an oxycodone trafficking ring. The trial before U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall began on May 7 and the jury returned the verdict yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Kevin William Small, age 50, pleaded guilty today in Harrisburg before United States District Court Judge Gene E.K. Pratter to mail fraud, escape, forging judicial signatures, use of a counterfeit seal and possession of a counterfeit seal. A sentencing date has not been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a former U.S. postal carrier was sentenced for stealing from the mail he delivered. United States District Court Judge John R. Tunheim sentenced Giang Nguyen, age 49, of Superior, Wisconsin, to two years of probation, along with payment of restitution, and...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A former employee of the Drug Enforcement Administration pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of theft of government money, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
