News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Seven people allegedly involved in an extensive scheme to obtain millions of dollars through fraudulently obtained refund checks issued by the U.S. Treasury were charged today with conspiring to steal government funds, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following statement after the Congressional Budget Office published a new report on the Distribution of Major Tax Expenditures in the Individual Income Tax System...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: For Fatal Stabbing in Southeast Washington.
By Interior Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: The National Park Service, Dunes Learning Center and the Great Lakes Research and Education Center are jointly offering a workshop on Threatened and Endangered Species on Saturday, June 22, 2013. Educators, both formal and non-formal, are invited to attend this interactive training which runs from 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. and will be held at the Paul H. Douglas Center for Environmental Education in Gary.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 19-year-old Red Lake man pleaded guilty to assaulting a man inside a home located on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. Micah James Waybenais pleaded guilty to one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Waybenais, who was indicted on Oct. 10, 2012, entered his plea before United States District Court Judge John R. Tunheim.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on May 29, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, GERALD ADELORE PAQUIN, a 55-year-old resident of Billings, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: Falsified Drug Tests of Federal Defendants in Return for Bribes and.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that AARON MOORE, also known as “Boogs," 24, of West Haven, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - Active duty and reserve military servicemembers honorably protect our nation. Congress has recognized these sacrifices and has enacted laws to protect the civil rights of servicemembers and veterans. The Department of Justice, in partnerships with other federal agencies, offers programs that protect servicemembers which include: Uniform Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) and the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA).
By State Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian will hold a Press Conference today regarding arrests in a large-scale Central New York drug organization based in Oneida County.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: POCATELLO - Marilyn N. Leones, 42, of Pocatello, was sentenced yesterday to 25 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Leones pleaded guilty to the charge on Dec. 18, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Michael Eli Wilson, Jr., 23, of Lapwai, Idaho, was sentenced today in federal court in Coeur d’Alene to 40 days in jail followed by 180 days of in-patient drug treatment, for theft exceeding $1,000, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Wilson to serve three years of supervised release. Wilson, an enrolled member of the Nez Perce Indian Tribe, pleaded guilty to the charge on December 11.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that Jason T. Bayles, 34, of Centralia, IL, was sentenced in United States District Court in East St. Louis on Tuesday, May 28, 2013 to 100 months in federal prison for “Possession of Pseudoephedrine for the Manufacture of Methamphetamine." Bayles pled guilty to that charge on Jan. 24, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y. - - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division Office of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Richard S. Hartunian, the United States Attorney of the Northern District of New York and Joseph A. D'Amico, New York State Police Superintendent announces that two indictments...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on May 29, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, JUSTIN HANLEY BRIGHT WINGS, a 27-year-old resident of Lodge Grass and an enrolled member of the Crow Tribe of Indians, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 47-year-old St. Paul man pleaded guilty in connection with the Dec. 13, 2012, armed robbery of the US Bank branch located at 711 Cleveland Avenue South in St. Paul. David Judin Greer pleaded guilty to one count of armed bank robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. Greer, who was indicted on February 5, 2013, entered his plea before United States District Court Judge Patrick J. Schiltz.
By USDA Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales cancellations of 147,000 metric tons of soybeans to China during the 2012/2013 marketing year.
By Interior Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: Seneca Falls, NY-- Women's Rights National Historical Park is pleased to announce that Noemi "Ami" Ghazala, a twelve-year veteran of the National Park Service, has been selected as the park's Acting Superintendent.Former Superintendent Tammy Duchesne has transferred to Pu'uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park in Hawai'i.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: FRANK DONEWAR, 57, a resident of Hammond, Louisiana, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Kurt D. Englehardt for transmission of wagering information and money laundering, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
