News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-A federal indictment unsealed late yesterday charges two men from the southeastern Minnesota community of Claremont with conspiring to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine. The indictment, which was filed on May 6, 2013, charges Clancy Shane Amy, age 38, and Michael Steven Schoenfelder...
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - The public is invited to a free presentation about Glacier National Park's Going-to-the-Sun Road Rehabilitation Project on Wednesday, May 15, 6-7:30 p.m. at the Flathead National Forest Supervisor's Office, 650 Wolfpack Way in Kalispell.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former physics professor of the University of California, Los Angeles has agreed to plead guilty to federal fraud charges and pay nearly $1.7 million in penalties for submitting fraudulent invoices related to nanotechnology research he was performing for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and other federal government entities.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On May 9, 2013, John Theodore Beaman, Sr., age 50, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced in United States District Court in Council Bluffs on a charge of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Senior United States District Court Judge Robert W. Pratt sentenced Beaman to 120 months in prison, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement on the House floor in opposition to the Pay China First Act...
By DOL Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: “Last November, this Committee convened a hearing to better understand what caused one of the worst public health crises this country has experienced in recent years: the meningitis outbreak that has claimed the lives of 53 Americans and sickened more than 700. Through that hearing and the efforts of...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: Cash from the sale of drugs was laundered to purchase, train, breed and race American quarter horses in U.S.
By US DOT Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: The Committee’s Panel on 21st Century Freight Transportation, chaired by Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN), will hold a roundtable meeting on Wednesday to examine what efforts the Department of Transportation and the Army Corps of Engineers have made to coordinate freight transportation policy, and what challenges exist for greater coordination amongst federal departments and agencies.
By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Yesterday, Committee on Ways and Means Human Resources Subcommittee Chairman Dave Reichert (R-WA) and Ranking Member Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), along with other Members of the Human Resources Subcommittee, introduced H.R. 1896, the International Child Support Recovery Improvement Act of 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - JAMES BAGGIO and MARY SUE SCOTT, both of St. Joseph, Missouri, were indicted for allegedly stealing products from local Sam’s Clubs and re-selling them on eBay. The indictment alleges that they stole approximately $100,000 worth of merchandise from Sam’s Club locations in seven different states and sold the products to purchasers across the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., May 9, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today joined other Members of the House of Representatives in announcing the creation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) Working Group. Throughout this year, the Working Group will hold a series of events...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Thomas Richard Fulger, age 65, of Lansing, Michigan, was sentenced to 9 months imprisonment and 1 year of supervised release for willfully filing false tax returns for the tax year 2005, U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. announced today. U.S. Attorney Miles was joined in the announcement by Special Agent in Charge Erick Martinez, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Eight current and former residents of Allegheny County have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh for violating federal narcotics trafficking laws on a major scale, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Raymond W. Kelly, the Police Commissioner of the City of New York (“NYPD"), today announced...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -Marcellina Tohonnie, 36, a Bureau of Indian Education employee, was sentenced on April 23, 2013 by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Aspey in federal court in Flagstaff, AZ, for stealing charitable donations to children attending the Kaibeto Boarding School. She received five years of supervised...
By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: Mr. Chairman, Mr. Doggett is unable to attend today’s hearing, so he asked me to read his opening statement for this important hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - William Kevin Kelly, 59, of Ocean City, NJ, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for a real estate scam that victimized clients and investors in the Lancaster area. Kelly pleaded guilty on Jan. 22, 2013 to wire fraud and money laundering charges. Through businesses such as Homelynx...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Charlie Rosario, 29, formerly of North Providence, R.I., was sentenced on Wednesday to 96 months in federal prison for conspiracy and trafficking more than 500 grams of cocaine in November 2010, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha; John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England Field Division; and United States Marshal Jamie A. Hainsworth.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces that Oscar Torres (47, Weston) pleaded guilty today to participating in two separate mortgage fraud conspiracies. He faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison on each of the two counts.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Canadian and a California man were sentenced by U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks for their roles in an internet-based international criminal child pornography and sexual exploitation network called Dreamboard.
