News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Robert Gardiner, 29, of the Town of Niagara, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, was sentenced to one year in prison and three years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By EPA 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 - Kevin Richard Halligen, 51, an Irish citizen, pled guilty today to wire fraud, a federal charge stemming from a scheme in which he defrauded $2.1 million from a Netherlands-based commodities trading company, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management announced a two-week scoping period on a proposal to offer five parcels totaling 5,443 acres in San Miguel, Dolores and Montrose counties in its Feb. 13, 2014 lease sale. This scoping period is part of an environmental assessment that will allow the public an opportunity to provide feedback on the five parcels proposed for leasing.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: PHOENIX - On May 15, 2013, Jon Phillip Carstens, 47, of Phoenix, Ariz. was sentenced by visiting U.S. District Judge Linda R. Reade to 235 months in federal prison for robbing a Wells Fargo Bank in Yuma, Ariz. Carstens pleaded guilty on Feb. 8, 2013 to armed bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On May 17, 2013, Roscoe Chambers, age 41, from Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Stephanie M. Rose to 360 months imprisonment, after a jury found him guilty of two counts of distribution of crack cocaine and one count of possession with the intent to distribute...
By EPA 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: BOSTON - A federal jury in Boston today convicted a Massachusetts State Police Trooper for extorting and threatening a local bettor.
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., May 17, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) and Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01) sent letters to the National Park Service, General Services Administration, and Eisenhower Memorial Commission seeking...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: Today marks the 59th anniversary of the seminal civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954). In this case, the Supreme Court overturned Plessy v. Ferguson,163 U.S. 537 (1896) which held that separate but equal treatment of blacks and whites was constitutional. Oliver Brown, along ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Tim Two Bulls, age 24, of Oglala, South Dakota appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Veronica L. Duffy on May 10, 2013 and pled guilty to Sexual Abuse. The maximum penalty upon conviction is life imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: Zion National Park Fire Management Officials plan to ignite the 654 acre Clear Trap Prescribed Fire (Rx) on Monday,May 20, 2013. Ignition will depend on favorable weather and fuel conditions. The burn may be postponed a day or two if conditions aren't favorable. This prescribed fire project is located...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: Hammond, Indiana-The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: Federal, state and local authorities have arrested eight individuals in connection with a cocaine distribution operation based in Killeen, Texas, announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, Federal Bureau of Investigation San Antonio Division Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez and Killeen Police Chief Dennis M. Baldwin.
By EPA 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 Commerce 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: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Northern District of Florida. Friday, May 17, 2013. PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Chantal M. Lanton, 37, of Orlando, Florida, pled guilty today to two counts of making false statements to a bank in connection with her application for a residential loan and mortgage.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: OWENSBORO, Ky. - The former owner of Tree Tops business located in Henderson County, Kentucky was sentenced to 12 months and one day, by Chief Judge Joseph H. McKinley, Jr., today in United States District Court, for trafficking in counterfeit goods announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: Geraldine Anita Margrave, 60, of Bend, Oregon, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on May 16, 2013, for possession with intent to distribute marijuana. Margrave was arrested in Bend, Oregon. She received five months of community confinement, to be followed by three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay a $200.00 special assessment. This case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact was sentenced on May 14, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
