News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Tyran Mcelrath, 18, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to seven years in prison on charges stemming from an attack he carried out against an elderly woman during a burglary last fall of the victim’s home in Northwest Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By Commerce Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: Watch Now. This Committee has been wrestling with the need to reform Medicare’s physician payment system for more than a decade, but, for a variety of reasons, Congress has been unable to send a proposal to the President. We may have a rocky road ahead, but I hope this is the year we succeed. We can’t...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: MOBILE, Ala. - Lashaun Deon Williams, 35, of Mobile, was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison. Williams pled guilty to two charges, conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine and using, carrying and possessing a firearm in furtherance of and in connection with a drug trafficking...
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: KEYSTONE, S.D. - Mount Rushmore National Memorial welcomes the public to review and comment on the Environmental Assessment (EA) on hiking trails to climbing areas found in the park. The EA, reviewed by the National Park Service’s Midwest Regional Office, is available for comment beginning May 8, 2013 on the National Park Service’s Park Planning website.
By USDA Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited Market 52 Inc., of Kingsburg, Calif., for failure to pay for produce.
By Homeland Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement following news that the U.S. Senate confirmed David Medine to be the Chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. The board was established as...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces the return of an indictment charging Scott Eargood (21, Poinciana) and Santos Zamora-Escobar (27, Poinciana) with conspiring with each other and others to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: Dix Defrauded the USDA of Over $400,000.
By DOE Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today gave the following remarks during the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on Helium Stewardship Act of 2013:
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Lyle Sutton, age 26, of Wounded Knee, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Veronica L. Duffy on May 3, 2013, and pleaded guilty to Assault with a Dangerous Weapon. The Magistrate Judge is expected to recommend Sutton’s plea be accepted by the District Court. The maximum penalty upon conviction is 10 years' imprisonment and/or a $250,000 fine.
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 6, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, PATRICK NEIL INKSTER, a 31-year-old resident of Calgary, Alberta, appeared for sentencing. INKSTER was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On May 7, 2013, Shannon James Keiffer-Rose, age 38, of rural Oakland, Iowa, was sentenced in United States District Court in Council Bluffs on the charge of felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. United States District Court Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: (CHARLOTTE, N.C.) - - North Carolinians participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) sixth National Prescription Drug Take-Back event on Saturday, April 27, 2013, turned in 13,120 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 10,997 pounds.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: ATLANTA - Jeree E. Grey was sentenced today to serve more than seven additional years in federal prison following his conviction by a jury for assaulting the warden of the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta.
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: As Olympic National Park staff begins the annual process of preparing for the main visitor season, effects of the mandatory five percent budget sequester are becoming more apparent.At Olympic, five percent amounts to an approximate $640,000 loss from the park's $12.9 million annual operating budget...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Kelcey Andrews, age 21, of Rosebud, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno on May 7, 2013, and pled guilty to Assault by Striking, Beating and Wounding, and Simple Assault. The maximum penalty upon conviction on each count is 6 months in custody, a $5,000 fine, or both; and $10 to the Federal Crime Victims Fund.
By Commerce Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., May 7, 2013 - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA -04) spoke at the third Managing Our Nation’s Fisheries Conference coordinated by the Regional Fishery Management Councils and hosted by the Pacific Fishery Management Council. During his remarks, Chairman Hastings discussed the reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Act, President Obama’s National Ocean Policy, and the need to update the Endangered Species Act.
By DOL Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) released the following joint statement after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia invalidated a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rule that would have punished employers for failing to post a biased notice of workers’ labor rights in the workplace...
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. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, TAMMY LYNN LAPIE, a 47-year-old resident of Great Falls, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2013
News Release: In Midland this afternoon, Charles Martinez, an aspiring rapper also known as “Ereez," faces a minimum of ten years and up to life in federal prison after a jury convicted him of bringing a minor female to Texas to engage in sexual activity announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman.
