News from May 2013
By DOL Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Republicans, led by Rep. Luke Messer (R-IN), today introduced the Improving Postsecondary Education Data for Students Act (H.R. 1949), legislation that would direct the Department of Education to explore opportunities to enhance higher education transparency.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The president of Local 148 of the Production Workers Union was sentenced today to six months in prison for conspiring with the secretary-treasurer/recording secretary to steal money from the union by taking unauthorized salary increases and bonuses, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Morris County, N.J., man was sentenced today to 180 months in prison for using hidden cameras to record young girls in his home, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Michael George Fitzpatrick, 51, of Hope, Idaho, was sentenced to 42 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Larry A. Burns, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. Fitzpatrick was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release and pay just under $1.4 million in restitution to the IRS for unpaid individual and corporate federal income taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: A man who conspired to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine was sentenced May 10, 2013, to more than five years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Today in federal court, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Michael J. Davis sentenced two local men for providing material support to foreign terrorists. Mahamud Said Omar, also known as Sharif Omar, age 46, of Minneapolis, was sentenced to 180 months in federal prison on each of Counts 1 through...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Austin Roberts, III, age 37, formerly of Elkridge, Maryland, pleaded guilty on May 10, 2013 to conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine and cocaine base (crack cocaine). Roberts remains detained pending sentencing.
By US DOT Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) acting Administrator Bob Perciasepe and the nominee to be Administrator, Gina McCarthy, ahead of Tuesday's scheduled meeting with Perciasepe.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: Robert Smith sold more than 11,000 oxycodone tablets in and around Huntington.
By Interior Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: Each year, Grand Teton National Park sponsors a unique program that brings American Indian artists to the Colter Bay Visitor Center. For the past 38 years, artisans from diverse tribes have demonstrated their traditional and contemporary art forms, providing visitors a chance to gain a greater appreciation and understanding of Indian cultures that are alive and active across North America.
By US DOT Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, last Friday wrote to Bob Perciasepe, Acting Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), regarding their ongoing investigation into inappropriate record keeping practices within the Agency, and dubious public statements about such practices.
By US DOT Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer, Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, today praised the ruling by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) Atomic Safety and Licensing Board calling for a full public hearing in connection with the ongoing safety review of the San Onofre nuclear ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: MOBILE, Ala. - David McArthur Trotter, of Grand Bay, Alabama, was sentenced in federal court today as a result of his guilty plea to a federal indictment in August of 2011. Trotter pled guilty to two counts in the indictment charging conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, and convicted...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: Portland, Ore. - James Joseph Bjorne Bennett, 55, most recently of Portland, Oregon and formerly of Fairbanks, Alaska, was sentenced to 168 months in prison today by United States District Judge Michael W. Mosman, for a string of bank robberies Bennett committed in the Portland area in September 2008.
By Commerce Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Monday, May 20, 2013, at 4 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Health Insurance Premiums Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act." Witnesses to be announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jay Vellon, 40, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute, and to distribute, heroin, was sentenced to 100 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By EPA Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Monday, May 20, 2013, at 4 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Health Insurance Premiums Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act." Witnesses to be announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City man, Richard Harris Bear Runner, was convicted on May 8, 2013 by a jury in federal court on charges of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
