News from November 2013
By DOL Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: Region 4 News Release: 13-2140-ATL (284)
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: HONOLULU - United States District Judge Leslie E. Kobayashi today sentenced Roger Santos, age 54, of Kahului, Maui to 12 months and 1 day imprisonment, 6 months home confinement, 3 years supervised release, 100 hours of community service and restitution to the Internal Revenue Service in the amount of $317,599.00 for one count of income tax evasion and one count of structuring. Santos pled guilty to these offenses on May 22, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man has been sentenced to 15 months in prison after pleading guilty to a federal firearm charge, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Max R. Tafoya, 63, the owner of an Albuquerque-area construction company, pleaded guilty this morning to defrauding a federal program that sets aside federal contracts for businesses owned by service-disabled veterans. Tafoya's son-in-law, Tyler Cole, 41, of Los Ranchos de Albuquerque...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas- Latona E. Long, 27, of Greenville, Texas, and Michael M. Bodie, 41, of North Richland Hills, Texas, were sentenced today, by U.S. District Judge Terry R. Means, to 120 months, and 108 months, respectively, following their guilty pleas in June 2013 to distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On Nov. 12, 2013, Matthew Collins, 49 years old, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael McShane to 140 months in federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine. Upon his release from prison, Collins will be on supervised release for five years.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is asking fluid milk processors and other interested parties to nominate candidates for the National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
Release: Every year the World Food Prize recognizes the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr. Norman E. Borlaug created the prize, which emphasizes the importance of a nutritious and sustainable food supply for all people.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announce that Kimberly Wendell Rothstein, 38, and Stacie Weisman, 49, were sentenced today before U.S. District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: Irina Shelikhova Masterminded Massive Fraud From Bay Medical Clinic In Bath Beach, Brooklyn, Through Fraudulent Claims, ‘No-Show’ Doctor & Phony Medical Notes.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Smethport, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 60 months in jail and ordered to pay a fine in the amount of $36,000 on his conviction of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: The National Park Service is beginning to develop a plan to analyze potential strategies for managing non-native mountain goats in Grand Teton National Park and the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway. This management plan and environmental assessment (plan/EA) would support long-term protection...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Derek M. Schwartzrock, 35, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced this morning to 97 months in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for his child pornography conviction. Schwartzrock will be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, after the U.S. Senate took a procedural vote to start debate on the Drug Quality and Security Act, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) said Congress was one step closer to passing the legislation. Harkin, as Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: “Reuben Lasker represents a significant milestone in the agency’s efforts to provide world-class marine science platforms," said Rear Adm. Michael S. Devany, director of the NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations and the NOAA Corps. “This state-of-the-art ship will play a key role in supporting NOAA’s mission and serving the nation."
By State Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on reports that the State Department will formally designate the Nigeria-based terrorist organization, Boko Haram, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that five Columbia, Mo., men have been indicted, in three separate cases, on charges related to distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Deundrea R. Miller, 27, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Terry R. Means to 121 months in federal prison following his guilty plea in June 2013 to one count of count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is seeking comments on an industry proposal for a new national Hardwood Lumber and Hardwood Plywood Promotion, Research and Information Order.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO ― Author and television pitch-man KEVIN TRUDEAU was convicted today of criminal contempt for violating a 2004 federal court order that prohibited him from making deceptive television infomercials that misrepresented the contents of his weight loss cure book. A federal jury deliberated approximately an hour after a week-long trial in U.S. District Court.
