News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Terace Castaway, age 30, of Mitchell, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on May 6, 2013, and pled guilty to the Superseding Information that charged him with Sexual Abuse. The maximum penalty upon conviction is life...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on May 7, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy, RODNEY ROYCE MILLER, a 60-year-old resident of Kalispell, pled guilty to accessing with the intent to view child pornography. Sentencing has been set for Sept. 12, 2013. He is currently detained.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: New Haven, Conn. - Deirdre M. Daly will become Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut when U.S. Attorney David B. Fein leaves the office on May 13, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: (ATLANTA) - - Georgians participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) sixth National Prescription Drug Take-Back event on Saturday, April 27, 2013, turned in 12,605 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state. This number was far more than the last take back event held in September, 2012, which yielded 8,233 pounds.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, Michael DePalma, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and Marlies...
By DOE Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Energy Department and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) today announced that registration is now open for America’s Home Energy Education Challenge (AHEEC), a national student competition created to help families save money by saving energy. Students, educators, and school principals are encouraged to register to participate at HomeEnergyChallenge.org.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: This morning, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, alongside the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Economic Growth, held a hearing entitled, “DOJ’s Quid pro Quo with St. Paul: A Whistleblower’s Perspective." Following the reading of opening statements at the hearing, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) issued this statement...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced that the April 16, 2013 judgment for Daniel Lee was made public today. The Honorable Charles N. Clevert, Jr. United States District Court Judge, sentenced Daniel Lee (age: 50), of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to 65 years in prison for his involvement in robberies of several pharmacies of prescription drugs and cash. Lee was also ordered to three years supervised release and to pay restitution in the amount of $5,089.42.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Gary Scott Whiting, age 49, of Rapid City, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Veronica L. Duffy on May 3, 2013, and pleaded guilty to Distribution of Child Pornography. The Magistrate Judge is expected to recommend Whiting’s plea be accepted by the District Court. The penalty upon conviction is 5 years mandatory minimum up to 20 years of imprisonment and/or a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former medical doctor pled guilty today in Washington, D.C., to engaging in illicit sexual conduct in Kenya, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., and Assistant Director in Charge Valerie Parlave of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Law enforcement officers arrested a Union County, N.J., man today after discovering alleged child pornography on his home computer during a search following an undercover investigation, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, Reps. Elijah E Cummings, Mike Michaud, Adam Smith, Susan Davis, Mark Takano, and John Tierney, the Ranking Members of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, the Committee on Armed Services, the Subcommittee on Military Personnel, ...
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) generated over $8.7 million for leasing rights on parcels offered at the BLM's quarterly federal oil and gas lease auction held May 7, in Cheyenne. Almost half of the bid and rental receipts go to the State of Wyoming.
By Commerce Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: Daniel Madrzykowski, a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) fire protection engineer with a 25-year track record of conducting research that saves lives and improves the effectiveness of fire-fighting techniques, has been named as a finalist for the 2013 Service to America Medals.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: (SEATTLE) - - A Canadian truck driver who was identified as a drug smuggler for a criminal group related to the Hells Angels was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 12 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute marijuana. James Postlethwaite, 60, of North Vancouver, BC, Canada was convicted following...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on May 6, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Carolyn S. Ostby, the following individual was arraigned.
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: Earlier today on northwest the slope of Little Round Top, Gettysburg National Military Park monument preservation staff reset the life-size bronze infantry figure from the 121st New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment monument onto its pedestal. A tree fell on the monument and damaged it during the Halloween...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: Two Former Employees Of The Debt Settlement Company Have Already Pled Guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, Opposing and Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on May 7, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange. Jeffrey Lynn Curry, age 29, was sentenced to 20 months in custody, 2 years of supervised release, and $100 to the Federal Crime Victims Fund.
By State Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today spoke at the confirmation hearings for the ambassadorial nominees to Chad and Libya.
