News from May 2013
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing examining three legislative proposals: the Reducing Excessive Deadline Obligations Act, the Federal and State Partnership for Environmental Protection...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Brandon Andrews, 31, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 39 ½ years of incarceration on charges stemming from the killing of a man in Northeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senior House Democrats have sent letters to nine separate U.S. retailers calling upon them to join a broadening global coalition supporting a May 12 Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, developed by the Worker Rights Consortium and a number of key stakeholders. The accord has...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Wausau, Wisconsin woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Pay Legal Child Support.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces that a federal jury yesterday found Eugene E. Davis (39, Tampa) guilty of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine and conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute 280 grams or more of crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: ROCKFORD - An Oregon, Ill. man was sentenced today in federal court for distributing child pornography. JONATHAN LONG, 51, who was originally charged in federal court in Alaska, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard to 121 months in federal prison for distributing child pornography, in addition to 10 years of supervised release following his release from prison.
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement today in response to the Department of Energy’s announcement that it has conditionally authorized the Freeport LNG Expansion and FLNG Liquefaction to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) to countries that do not have a Free Trade Agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit and sought a preliminary injunction against N.Y. Fish Inc.; New York City Fish Inc.; Maxim Kutsyk, Pavel Roytkov, Leonid Staroseletesky, and Steven Koyfman under the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA). New York City Fish manufactures...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury in Rochester has returned a three-count indictment charging Liddon Young, 31, of Stone Mountain, Georgia with conspiracy to unlawfully deal firearms without a license and unlawfully dealing in firearms without a license, as well as selling firearms to a convicted felon. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, a fine of $750,000 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: Laredo, Texas - Carlos Alberto Gonzalez, 36, of Laredo, has been convicted of conspiracies to possess five kilograms or more of cocaine with the intent to distribute and international money laundering, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Larreka Jackson was sentenced to 48 months in prison for her role in a multi-million dollar conspiracy to use stolen identities to obtain tax refunds, announced George L. Beck, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama. Jackson was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $721,519.12. In January 2013, Jackson pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to file false claims and to one count of aggravated identity theft.
By DOL Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: On Tuesday, May 21 at 10:00 a.m., the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), will hold a hearing entitled, “Reviewing the President’s Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Proposal for the U.S. Department of Education." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Frank Hill, age 38, of Eagle Butte, South Dakota appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on May 14, 2013 and pled guilty to Sexual Abuse of a Person Incapable of Consenting.
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce announced its hearing schedule for the week of May 20, 2013. Following this week’s release of a new committee report, “The Looming Premium Rate Shock," the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will kick off its hearing schedule with...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on May 16, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Keith Strong, JOSCAYNE DENNY, a 33-year-old resident of Box Elder, pled guilty to distribution of a controlled substance. Sentencing has been set for Aug. 16, 2013. He is currently detained.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Larren Wade, 55, of Venice, Fl., a former doctor who had a medical practice in Alexandria, Va., was sentenced to 70 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: U.S. Attorney for the District of Wyoming Christopher A. Crofts announced today that on May 16, 2013, Claude Lee Duran, Jr., a 26-year-old Northern Arapaho Tribal Member, appeared in Federal Court after having been indicted in a two count Indictment charging him with assault resulting in serious bodily...
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: Grand Teton National Park and the Grand Teton Association (GTA) are pleased to announce that Susma Giri was selected for the 2013 Boyd Evison Graduate Fellowship. Giri, the ninth recipient of an Evison Fellowship, is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Ecology at the University of Wyoming (UW) in Laramie. The Evison Graduate Fellowship began in 2005 to support advanced studies throughout the Greater Yellowstone Area.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Devasko Dewayne Lewis, age 34, of Lowndes County, Georgia, was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury sitting in Macon, Georgia on May 16, 2013 for two counts of making False Statements in a matter within the jurisdiction...
