News from November 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) released the following statement in response to subpoenas issued by Chairman Camp...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - Refugio Ramirez-Garcia, aka “Cuco," “Refugio," “Miguel," and “Arturo Ramirez," 35, of Dallas, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to serve a total of 240 months in federal prison for his role in heroin distribution conspiracies that he operated in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: The second meeting of the U.S.-Japan Bilateral Commission on Civil Nuclear Cooperation was held on November 4, 2013 in Washington, D.C, with U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel B. Poneman and Japan’s Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Shinsuke Sugiyama leading the discussions as Co-Chairs. The delegations included participants representing a wide range of governmental agencies.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today introduced legislation exempting some traditional and customary Alaska Native handicrafts from a provision in the Migratory Bird Treaty Act prohibiting the sale of items containing feathers and other non-edible migratory bird parts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, along with Acting Special Agent in Charge Joseph W. Shepherd announced that Ulices Quintero-Patino, 30, of Mexico, was sentenced on one count of possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal grand jury has indicted three men from Rio Arriba County, N.M., on heroin trafficking charges.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: Lighting Up the Night. On Nov. 16, 2013, Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park will once again light up the night during the 8th Memorial Illumination at the Resaca de la Palma Battlefield in Brownsville. The event features the lighting of 8,000 luminarias, each to honor one of the U.S. or...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE -Francisco Burciaga, 43, of El Paso, Texas, was sentenced this morning to 20 years in federal prison followed by ten years of supervised release for his heroin trafficking conviction, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven C. Yarbrough, Joseph M. Arabit, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s El Paso Division, Chief Pete N. Kassetas of the New Mexico State Police and Chief Terry Sisneros of the Raton Police Department.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: Lowell, MA -In honor of Veterans Day, Lowell National Historical Park will be waiving museum fees for all visitors at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum on Saturday, November 9, through Monday, Nov. 11, 2013.Lowell National Historical Park would like to invite our communities to visit this weekend to learn more about the history, heritage and people of Lowell.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Mohammed Abdeldayem, a/k/a “Mike," 34, of Rochester N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, was sentenced to 10 in years prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) today applauded the announcement by the U.S. Department of State of a new reward offering under the Narcotics Reward Program for the arrest and/or conviction of Rafael Caro-Quintero. The Department is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Caro-Quintero, who kidnapped, tortured and murdered U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Enrique “Kiki" Camarena in 1985.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - In a case stemming from what is believed to be the largest bribe ever accepted by a public official in an undercover operation, a former member of the Moreno Valley City Council has agreed to plead guilty to a federal bribery charge for taking a $2.36 million cash payment from an undercover operative posing as a real estate broker.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: 92 defendants have been charged to date in Operation Sledgehammer I-VI.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - An illegal alien found in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty and has been sentenced in federal court to time served on his conviction of Re-Entry into the United States after Deportation, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Participants of employer-sponsored retirement plans may not be getting access to important plan documents because of confusing and contradictory rules regarding electronic records disclosures, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found in a report released by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: Government alleged that the Holland, Michigan company improperly obtained Recovery Act funds to pay employees engaged in recreational and volunteer activities.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Can the Obama Administration assure the American people that their personal information will be safeguarded when signing up for ObamaCare? The Administration says yes, but the reality is NO.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Two defendants from North Hollywood, Calif., have pleaded guilty in a scheme to steal a load of processed beef from a meatpacker in southwest Kansas, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: Judge Orders Former Employee to Pay Over $3,600 in Restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUEQUE - Louie Villegas, 49, of Palm Springs, Calif., was sentenced this afternoon to ten years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for his heroin trafficking conviction.
