News from May 2013
By DOE Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) today introduced H.R. 1900, the Natural Gas Pipeline Permitting Reform Act, a bipartisan bill to modernize the federal review process for natural gas pipeline permit applications.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal jury sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., returned a guilty verdict against Myron Jim Harry, 26, on an indictment charging him with rape after a four-day trial. The guilty verdict was announced by U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales and John Billison, Director of the Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety.
By DOE Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today continued its American Energy Security and Innovation hearing series with a focus on grid reliability challenges that arise from the nation’s shifting energy resource landscape. This hearing built on the...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Houston resident Sean Louis Walsh, 30, has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction for receipt of child pornography, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. He pleaded guilty Feb. 21, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: Doctor Charged Cash For Writing Prescriptions For Dangerous Painkiller.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Dewayne Vass, 30, of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny, to wire fraud affecting a financial institution. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison, a fine of $1,000,000 or both.
By USDA Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: U.S Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman. The Senate’s bipartisan 2013 Farm Bill represents the most significant reform of American agriculture policy in decades. With the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act, the era of direct payments is over. Instead of subsidies that pay out every year even in ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Glenn Rodger McGuire, 41, of Newport News, Va. was sentenced today to 188 months in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for receipt of child pornography.
By DOE Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), subcommittee member Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO), and Rep. Scott Tipton (R-CO) today sent a letter to the Department of Commerce’s Inspector General Todd Zinser to applaud plans to audit the NTIA stimulus grant awarded...
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: Effective March 1, 2013, Mount Rainier National Park was required to reduce its annual operating budget for Fiscal Year 2013 (FY13) by five percent due to the impacts of "sequestration" ( a series of automatic, across-the-board permanent spending cuts). The park must absorb this funding cut between now...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Christine Rahl, age 46, a resident of Social Circle, Georgia, entered a plea of guilty today to a multi-count Information before the Honorable C. Ashley Royal, United States District Judge in Macon, Georgia. Count...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Nathan Allen Dunn, 30, of Brookwood, Ala., was sentenced today to 87 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for wire fraud and for receiving bribes in his position as a USCG Transportation Administrator. Dunn was also ordered to pay $779,549.85 in restitution to the U.S. Treasury.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Kimberly K. Mertz, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Colonel Danny R. Stebbins of the Connecticut State Police today announced that SAMUEL DiPROTO, 61, of Cromwell, was arrested yesterday and charged by federal criminal complaint with possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A Georgia man has been sentenced in federal court to eight months imprisonment followed by three years supervised release on his conviction of violations of federal laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) released the following statement after hearing the compelling new testimony of three career diplomats about what occurred before, during and after the Benghazi terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Canadian man has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison for picking up a 12-year-old girl in El Dorado, Kan., and taking her out of state for the purpose of having sex with her, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: Ignacia S. Moreno, Assistant Attorney General of the Environment and Natural Resources Division, announced today that she will be leaving the Department of Justice on June 7, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today the settlement of its lawsuit against the Golden Corral restaurant in Westland, Mich., which alleged that the owners and operators of the Golden Corral violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by denying service to a mother and her minor children based on the appearance of the children’s skin due to a genetic skin disorder.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: Two former employees at the Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany (MCLB-Albany) have pleaded guilty to receiving bribes related to a scheme to funnel freight hauling business to a local transportation company resulting in the loss of millions of dollars to the United States government, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Michael J. Moore for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Milwaukee has indicted Najee C. Moore, 22, on charges of conspiracy, sex trafficking and attempted forced labor, of both minor and adult victims.
