News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: DENVER - The Drug Enforcement (DEA), Western Colorado Drug Task Force, Two Rivers Drug Enforcement (TRIDENT), and the 21st Judicial District Attorney’s Office have completed the first phase of an investigation that has resulted in the seizure of significant amounts of methamphetamine and cocaine and a grand jury indictment of 36 defendants.
By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: “Severe space weather has the potential to cause significant damage to the U.S. and global economy, so it’s critical GOES-R has this technology in place as quickly as possible to monitor it," said Mary Kicza, assistant administrator for NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: “As the jury found, Jia Hou and Oliver Pan stuck a knife into the heart of New York City’s campaign finance law by violating the prohibition against illegal campaign contributions, all to corruptly advantage the campaign of a candidate for city-wide office. Cases like this give the people of New York...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: Two Toledo men were charged with violations of the Clean Air Act and regulations involving the removal and disposal of asbestos-containing material, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: WILMINGTON - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court on Tuesday, before Senior United States District Judge James C. Fox, MATTHEW WILLIAMS, of Louisburg, NC, was sentenced to a 42 month term of imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release, on charges of Conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. hochul, Jr. announced today that Michael Bombard, 24, of Saranac Lake, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa, to receipt of child pornography. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum penalty of 20 years and a fine of $250,000.
By US DOT Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - On Thursday, May 9 at 9:15 a.m., Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, will hold a full committee business meeting to consider the nomination of Gina McCarthy to be Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The business meeting will be held in 406 Dirksen Senate Office Building.
By USDA Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 290,000 metric tons of soybeans to China during the 2013/2014 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A complaint was unsealed today charging two men, one from Bourne and the other from New Bedford, with narcotics trafficking. The complaint resulted from the efforts of federal, state and local authorities to reduce violence and drug trafficking in the New Bedford area.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: A Guatemalan man who illegally reentered the United States and unlawfully possessed ammunition pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has begun gathering stakeholder feedback on updates to several Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Orders (Orders) that would help ensure that the American people get a fair return for the development of these resources on public lands.
By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee that oversees international trade policy, issued the following statement after President Obama nominated Michael Froman to serve as U.S. Trade Representative...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Ronald Keith Alexander, 37, of Boise, Idaho, pleaded guilty today to one count of unlawfully possessing a firearm and one count of transferring a firearm in violation of the National Firearm Registration and Transfer Record, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Alexander and co-defendant Phillip Bernardino Chavez were charged in a superseding indictment filed on Feb. 12, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH- United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court yesterday ALAN JOHNSON, 23, was sentenced by United States District Chief Judge Terrence W. Boyle to 608 months imprisonment; 5 years supervised release, and was ordered to pay an $800.00 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on May 1, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen, JASON WASHINGTON, a 29-year-old resident of Missoula, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: Defendant to Pay $100,272.32 in Restitution to Bank.
By US DOT Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Congressman Bill Cassidy (R-LA-6), member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, today sent a letter to Acting Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank urging the Department of Commerce to send Dr. Roy ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Custer, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly unlawfully possessing firearms in March 2013.
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: CALABASAS, Calif. - The Santa Monica Mountains Fund, official fundraising partner of Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, will host a fundraiser to support mountain lion research at King Gillette Ranch on Sunday, May 19 from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut today announced that JOVAN SMITH, also known as “Hood," 35, of Hartford, was sentenced yesterday by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 78 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
