News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2013
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Federal felony charges have been filed against a Las Vegas man for attempting to destroy a local children’s autism learning facility by fire and explosive devices, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2013
News Release: A voluntary climbing closure on Devils Tower is in effect during the month of June. The 1995 Devils Tower National Monument Climbing Management Plan established a voluntary closure for all climbing routes on the Tower out of respect for traditional cultural activities of American Indians. The voluntary closure has been implemented each June since 1996. The average number of climbers that choose not to climb during June has seen an 85% reduction.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2013
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2013
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: WILLIAM ELLIEN, 57, of Savannah, Georgia, was sentenced yesterday in federal court by U.S. District Court Judge William T. Moore, Jr., to 30 months in prison for exchanging prescriptions for highly addictive drugs in exchange for sex. Ellien was also sentenced to serve 3 years of supervised release upon his release from prison and ordered to surrender all of his medical licenses.
By EPA Newswire | May 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders have expanded their examination into reports that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius may have solicited funding or assistance from the health care industry to help implement the health care law. According to The New York...
By DOL Newswire | May 24, 2013
News Release: House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) sent a letter urging the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health, and Human Services to focus on increasing funding for Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) instead of supporting new and unproven programs.
By DOE Newswire | May 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders have expanded their examination into reports that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius may have solicited funding or assistance from the health care industry to help implement the health care law. According to The New York...
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) will appear on C-SPAN’s Communicators program this weekend to discuss the panel’s upcoming agenda.m.
By DOE Newswire | May 24, 2013
News Release: SAN DIEGO, Calif. - EcoCAR 2: Plugging In to the Future today named Pennsylvania State University its Year Two winner at the EcoCAR 2013 Competition in San Diego. The 15 universities competing in EcoCAR 2 gathered in Yuma, Arizona last week for six days of rigorous vehicle testing and evaluation on drive...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2013
News Release: Defendants Claim To Be Tax And Law Experts Damaging Victims And Ensnarling Justice System.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Virgil Running Bear, Jr., age 40, was indicted by a federal grand jury on May 15, 2013, for Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person. Running Bear appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge William D. Gerdes on May 23, 2013, and pled not guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Kevin Feldis announced today that a resident of Montrose, Colorado, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage on one count of making false statements to the United States and one count of perjury. Both charges are felonies.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Agencies from across Metro Denver have come together in an effort to prevent firearm violence this summer, the group announced today. The effort, which includes federal, state and local law enforcement agencies as well as federal and state prosecutors, will focus on firearm violations. The goal is to reduce gun crime.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Mustapha Issaka Zico, 41, of Nima, Ghana, was sentenced today to 216 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to import heroin from Ghana into the United States. He was also ordered to forfeit $110,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence-based non-profit agency, funded largely by federal government grants, has entered into a settlement agreement to resolve allegations that several of its employees, including its former executive director, were paid for work on federal grants that was never done.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - James Douglas Manring, 54, of Fredericksburg, Virginia, was sentenced today to 168 months in prison, followed by a 3 year term of supervised release, for production of child pornography. Prior to his arrest on Nov. 13, 2012, Manring taught preschool in Bethesda, Maryland.
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) issued the following statement today after Ken Corbin was appointed acting director of the IRS Exempt Organization Division to replace Lois Lerner...
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., May 23, 2013 - Today, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power held a legislative hearing on H.R. 1963, The Bureau of Reclamation Conduit Hydropower Development Equity and Jobs Act. Sponsored by Rep. Steve Daines (MT-At Large), this bill would create new American jobs and expand production of clean, renewable hydropower by removing outdated federal statutory barriers and streamlining administrative and regulatory processes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Dupree, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault With a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LEROY PRESSLEY, 25, of Norwalk, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 57 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm.
