News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: This week, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee passed unanimously, by voice vote, a resolution establishing an, “Over-Criminalization Task Force." Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) will serve as an ex officio member of the task force. Following the establishment of this task force, Rep. Conyers issued this statement...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: Richard S. Hartunian, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, announced today the Indictment of Mark Pullyblank, 52, of Caledonia, NY, William Clements, 52, of Victor, New York, and Crane-Hogan Structural Systems, Inc., 3001 Brockport Road, Spencerport, New York, which employs Pullyblank and Clements.
By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) today released a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) internal memo that confirms that as early as 2009, the Obama Administration was actively exploring ways to circumvent...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jean Frederic Godoc, 30 of Paris, France, was sentenced today to an 81-month prison term after earlier pleading guilty to traveling to the United States to have sex with an under-aged child and one count of transportation of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced today that ten individuals have been arrested and indicted in federal court as a result of an investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven sentenced Larry Lee Northern, Jr. to 32 months in federal prison for theft of government funds and aggravated identity theft. Northern pleaded guilty on Jan. 19, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: New York Cell Withdrew $2.8 Million In Cash From Hacked Accounts In Less Than 24 Hours.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Thomas William Quintin, age 66, formerly of Denver, Colorado, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve 63 months in federal prison for conspiracy to defraud the United States, the United States Attorney’s Office and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Deairich R. Hunter, 48, an attorney from Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to six months in prison, to be followed by six months of home detention, on a federal charge stemming from his theft of more than $100,000 in payments from insurance companies that were intended to settle some of his clients’ disability and personal injury claims.
By State Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, outlined the vital U.S. interests at stake in Syria while speaking on the Senate Floor today in support of tipping the balance in the Syrian civil war in favor of vetted armed rebel groups seeking to overthrow the Assad regime.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Middle District of North Carolina. Thursday, May 9, 2013. Defendant Guilty of Child Pornography, Obscenity Charges. GREENSBORO, N.C. - An Elkin man pled guilty today to possession of child pornography and production of obscenity, announced Ripley Rand, United...
By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) issued the following statement upon release of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) report on the Ways and Means Committee Tax Reform Working Groups. The report includes a summary of present law and suggestions for reform submitted to the 11 Tax Reform Working Groups.
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska:The National Park Service (NPS) is considering actions to establish or upgrade telecommunications systems at several locations in Denali National Park and Preserve (DENA) and to locate new weather stations in the park. New telecommunication and weather installations are needed to...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: Anthony Robinson, 39, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged today by indictment with two counts of robbery which interferes with interstate commerce and two counts of using a firearm during a crime of violence, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: Franklin A. (“Al") Bieri, 54, of Lebanon, IL, was sentenced in federal court today for violating the Clean Air Act, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced. The court ordered Bieri to serve an eight-month sentence with five months’ imprisonment and three months’ home confinement, all to be followed by three years’ supervised release. The court also ordered Bieri to pay a fine of $3,000 and a special assessment of $100.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - Three Holyoke residents were charged today with conspiring to possess with intent to distribute oxycodone.
By DOL Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, applauded the Senate’s passage of the Animal Drug User Fee Agreement (ADUFA) and Animal Generic Drug User Fee Agreement (AGDUFA) reauthorizations. ADUFA and AGDUFA allow the U.S. Food...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROBERT GENTILE, 76, of Manchester, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for controlled substances and firearms offenses. GENTILE also was ordered to spend the first three months of his supervised release in home confinement.
By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) issued the following statements after the President announced his intention to nominate Mike Froman as U.S. Trade Representative.
