News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: An Akron man was sentenced to more than three years in prison and ordered to pay more than $15 million in restitution for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme in Florida and a separate scheme to defraud two elderly investors, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: Alleged Victims Include 19 Current NYPD Officers, A Retired Officer, And A Current Member Of NYPD’s Administrative Staff.
By State Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Syria Transition Support Act, bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Bob Corker (R-TN) passed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The legislation plans for a post-Assad Syria by offering humanitarian assistance to the Syrian people, limited lethal and non-lethal assistance and training to vetted Syrian groups.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kimberly K. Mertz, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that a federal jury in New Haven has found ROBERT BRADDOCK, JR., 34, guilty of multiple offenses stemming from a scheme...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida- United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces the return of indictments charging nine individuals involved in the illegal sale of firearms and narcotics in Jacksonville. Today, special agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), and the Florida...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Tramell McGee, 30, Kevin Battles, 46, Jerome Brown, 40, Terrell Moore, 33, and Nikita Burt, 29, all of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U. S. Magistrate Judge Leslie G. Foshcio to cocaine trafficking. The pleas were entered in advance of a jury trial that was scheduled to begin today before Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Alfredo Valentin, Jr. a/k/a Alfredo Valentine, a/k/a Fred Valentin, a/k/a Fred Vegas, 42, of Penfield, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that John M. Berry, Jr., 42, of Dunkirk, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara, to making a false claim against the United States. The charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, a fine of 250,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A man has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud for his role in the embezzlement of nearly $5.6 million from Turnberry Associates, the parent company which owned or developed the Residences at MGM, Town Square shopping center, Turnberry Place, Turnberry Towers, and the Stirling Club in Las Vegas, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By Commerce Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: The Majority keeps holding hearings on supposedly bipartisan reform ideas, but over and over, it’s the same song and dance: cut benefits and shift costs to the poor and elderly.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - Shane Howell, 41, of Flintville, Tenn., was sentenced on May 20, 2013, by the Honorable Harry S. Mattice, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 108 months in federal prison for conspiracy to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: This spring, Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area was required by "sequestration" (a series of automatic, across-the-board permanent spending cuts) to reduce its annual budget by more than six percent. The park must absorb that cut in the remaining seven months of this fiscal year that ends September 30. The federal law imposing sequestration requires that each park take this cut.
By USDA Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, and Sen. Thad Cochran, the Committee’s Ranking Member, worked together to secure a strong bipartisan 15-5 vote in Committee for the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2013 ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A two-count indictment has been unsealed following the arrest of Laredo resident Santos Eliseo Carpio Jr., 33, on charges of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and marijuana and possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: I am pleased the 2014 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act would continue our long commitment of caring for the men and women who have served in uniform, and providing the resources necessary for maintenance and construction of military facilities.
By USDA Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: • Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, penned an op-ed published in The Hill today, highlighting how the Farm Bill will both create jobs and reduce the deficit.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal jury sitting in Las Cruces, N.M., returned a guilty verdict this afternoon against Cody Allen Little, 34, of Lovington, N.M., on a two-count superseding indictment alleging violations of the federal firearms laws after a two-day trial. The verdict was announced by U.S. Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Michael Kelewood, age 27, an inmate in the U.S. Bureau of Prisons system, was sentenced last week by U.S. District Court Judge William J. Martinez to serve 84 months for assault with a dangerous weapon, U.S. Attorney John Walsh and FBI Denver Special Agent in Charge Thomas Ravenelle announced.
By Commerce Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today launched a bipartisan supply chain working group to discuss securing our nation’s communications supply chain. Walden made the announcement as he opened today’s subcommittee hearing on “Cybersecurity: An Examination of the Communications Supply Chain."
By Commerce Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, D-Md., today introduced bipartisan legislation to improve the quality and utility of federal spending information. The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act) ...
