News from May 2013
By Commerce Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: The House will vote tomorrow on legislation to finally allow construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, a $7 billion private sector energy infrastructure project that will bring thousands of jobs and greater energy supplies to America. Rep. Lee Terry’s (R-NE) bill, H.R. 3, the Northern Route Approval...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Sergio Hinojosa, 55, a resident alien living in Laredo, has been arrested and charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, theft of public money, mail fraud and wire fraud, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee and its Communications and Technology Subcommittee today held back-to-back hearings examining cyber threats and security solutions in an ever-evolving technological landscape.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - United States Attorney Edward L. Stanton III announced that on Monday, May 20, 2013, Chief United States District Judge Jon P. McCalla sentenced Derick Shane Hundley, 30, to 300 months incarceration, followed by lifetime supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: FOR PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY. TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2012. *******MEDIA ADVISORY*******. The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, along with the FBI, IRS Criminal Investigation Division, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office and other law enforcement agencies will hold a press conference today...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Joplin, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet.
By EPA Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: The House will vote tomorrow on legislation to finally allow construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, a $7 billion private sector energy infrastructure project that will bring thousands of jobs and greater energy supplies to America. Rep. Lee Terry’s (R-NE) bill, H.R. 3, the Northern Route Approval...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: MELVIN JEOVANY VASQUEZ, age 30, a citizen of Honduras pled guilty in federal court today before U. S. District Judge Jay C. Zainey to a one-count indictment charging him with illegal re-entry of a removed alien, announced U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By EPA Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee and its Communications and Technology Subcommittee today held back-to-back hearings examining cyber threats and security solutions in an ever-evolving technological landscape.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Joshua Nall, 31, of Boise, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to unlawfully possessing a firearm, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: In Pecos yesterday, 34-year-old drug trafficking organization ringleader Noe Torres Ortega was sentenced to 262 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit.
By EPA Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This morning, The Hill reported that the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) is now among the labor unions “breaking with President Obama on Obamacare." According to The Hill, the “1.3 million-member labor group that twice endorsed Obama for president - is very...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 55-year-old Tyler, Texas, building contractor has been sentenced for federal arson related charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Rhonda Hartmann has pleaded guilty to presenting a false tax refund claim to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today along with Lucy Cruz, special agent in charge of IRS-Criminal Investigation (CI).
By Interior Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: Who: National Park Service at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: LAS VEGAS - A local urology practice, Las Vegas Urology, LLP, has agreed to pay the United States Department of Justice $1 million to resolve civil allegations that it improperly billed Medicare, TRICARE, and other federal health care insurance programs, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Mexican Nationals Emmanuel Barrientos, 33, and Juan Trevino, 38, have been ordered to prison following their convictions in relation to a crack cocaine trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. The two men pleaded guilty on March 4, 2013.
By DOE 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 DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Rogelio Corral and Jose Efrain-Gonzalez were sentenced on May 16, 2013, to 14 years and 5 years, respectively, in prison for drug trafficking, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Andrea Lawton, 47, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 72 months in prison for one count of interstate transportation of stolen property in connection with the August 2012 theft of a rare bust of Benjamin Franklin. The bust, which was damaged during Lawton’s travels, was sculpted during...
