News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROMAN PONCE, 36, a citizen of Mexico last residing in Norwich, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 10 months of imprisonment for illegally reentering the United States after he was deported.
By Homeland Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) released the following statement after the full Senate confirmed the nomination of David Medine to be Chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. (PCLOB).
By State Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC- Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement in response to reports that Israeli and Turkish officials have reached a draft agreement to mend their diplomatic crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: (NASHVILLE, Tenn.) - - Tennesseans participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) sixth National Prescription Drug Take-Back event on Saturday, April 27, 2013, turned in 10,055 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state. This number was more than the last take back event held in September, 2012, which yielded 7,949 pounds.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Dwight Mitchell, 19, of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny to aiding and abetting a violent crime committed in aid of a racketeering enterprise. The charges carries a maximum penalty of life in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: Drove Cocaine And Thousands Of Pounds Of BC Bud Across U.S./Canada Border.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: (ANCHORAGE, Alaska) - - DeMar Moultrie, a/k/a, “Duckmane," a/k/a, “All Day," 25, from Anchorage, Alaska, was sentenced on May 1, 2013, in U.S. District Court for his role in an Anchorage and Fairbanks drug conspiracy. Moultrie was sentenced to 40 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Moultrie had previously pled guilty to an indictment charging him and his co-conspirators with one count of drug conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez-Covington sentenced Thomas Meyer (42, Riverview) today to 15 years in federal prison for production of child pornography. As part of his sentence, he was ordered to serve a life term of supervised release following his release from prison. The court also ordered Meyer to forfeit his computer equipment, pay $300 in restitution to the victim, and register as a sex offender. Meyer pleaded guilty on February 7, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: Patchogue, NY - During the month of May, 2013, the National Park Service will reopen the remainder of the Fire Island National Seashore facilities damaged or closed following Hurricane Sandy. While the William Floyd Estate and the Wilderness Visitor Center reopened by mid-November, other Fire Island-based...
By DOL Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), today held a hearing to examine the appropriate federal role in accountability and explore innovative state and local efforts to hold schools accountable for student performance.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a 42-year-old Minneapolis man pleaded guilty to the Dec. 20, 2011, robbery of the US Bank in Little Canada. Reginald Haney pleaded guilty to one count of bank robbery. Haney, who was indicted on Feb. 14, 2012, entered his plea before United States District Court Judge Richard H. Kyle.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a 34-year-old Mexican national was indicted for entering the United States illegally after being deported as a criminal. Eduardo Asuncion Gallardo-Gutierrez was specifically charged with one count of illegal re-entry after deportation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - One Topeka man is charged in a federal indictment with making a pipe bomb and another is charged with possessing a pipe bomb, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney for the District of Nebraska, Deborah R. Gilg, announces that Operation Blue Storm was selected as the National Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) most outstanding regional drug trafficking case for 2012. An awards ceremony was held today at the United States...
By DOL Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: House Republicans today met with working parents to discuss the need for more flexibility in the workplace. At the CENTECH GROUP Inc. office in Falls Church, Virginia, members listened as small business owners and private-sector employees described how the Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013 (H.R.
By DOL Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON--Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committeeand of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies-and author of the prevention and public health title of the Affordable Care...
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: The fee for camping at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore's Dunewood Campground will increase to $18 on May 9. The new fee, an increase of $3 per night, was approved by the National Park Service to cover the cost of adding municipal water to the campground. A new municipal...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: Senior Venezuelan Banking Official Allegedly Received At Least $5 Million In Bribes In Exchange For Directing Business To U.S. Defendants.
By USDA Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced pending new guarantee fee rates to be charged for coverage under the Commodity Credit Corporation’s Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102). These new guarantee fee rates will apply to applications for payment guarantees and amendment requests received on or after May 10, 2013, 12:01 a.m. (Eastern Time).
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on May 7, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Keith Strong, the following individuals were arraigned.
