News from November 2013
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: The National Park Service and California State Parks are gearing up for their annual "Old Time Holiday" celebration on Saturday, December 7 from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.Follow in the footsteps of miners who in 1849, after preparing a holiday meal in Shasta, traveled to Whiskeytown to share their food...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: Portland, Ore. - Eddie L. Bynum, Sr. (a/k/a “Fast Eddie"), 54, of Portland, Oregon, pled guilty to money laundering today in U.S. District Court. The Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) Criminal Investigations Division initiated a “sting" money laundering investigation of Bynum after learning from the Federal...
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today sent a letter to Nancy Stoner, Acting Assistant Administrator for the Office of Water of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), responding to a recent federal court decision that tossed out EPA's attempt to force a West Virginia poultry farmer to obtain a costly and unnecessary Clean Water Act (CWA) permit.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: OAKLAND - Eric Demetrius Smith was sentenced yesterday to 70 months in prison for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a minor and, separately, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man pleaded guilty on Nov. 4 in federal court in connection with his role in a heroin distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Forty-nine-year-old Ricky Ray Rockwell pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin before Chief United States District Judge Robert C. Chambers in Huntington.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: Seneca Falls, NY-Women's Rights National Historical Park will celebrate Native American History Month with a lecture by Dr. Thomas Lappas, Associate Professor of History at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: Prepared More Than 1300 Fraudulent Tax Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Carl McBride, age 48, of Claymont, Delaware, was arrested earlier today and charged by criminal complaint with transportation of child pornography, in violation of Title 18, United States Code...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 “I am proud to welcome Stevan E. Bunnell on his first day as General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Steve is an impressive addition to the talented leadership team at the Department who work tirelessly to carry ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Global health care giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and its subsidiaries will pay more than $2.2 billion to resolve criminal and civil liability arising from allegations relating to the prescription drugs Risperdal, Invega and Natrecor, including promotion for uses not approved as safe and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: Two individuals charged in connection with the operation of a fraudulent lottery scheme were arrested today in south Florida following their indictment by a federal grand jury in Miami on Oct. 31, 2013, the Justice Department, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it will monitor elections on Nov. 5, 2013, in Detroit and Hamtramck, Mich.; Orange County, N.Y.; and Cuyahoga and Lorain Counties, Ohio. The monitoring is designed to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination in the election ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that U.S. District Court Judge Myron H. Thompson sentenced four former corrections officers of the Alabama Department of Corrections – Michael Smith, Matthew Davidson, Joseph Sanders and Scottie Glenn – in connection with the beating death of former inmate Rocrast ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: Nine members of a violent, armed, outlaw motorcycle gang were indicted and arrested today, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade of the Eastern District of Michigan.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: A Northern California real estate investor pleaded guilty today for his role in conspiracies to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: Quentin Collick of Montgomery, Ala., and Deatrice Williams of Duluth, Ga., were sentenced Nov. 1, 2013, to serve 85 and 51 months in prison, respectively, announced Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the Justice Department's Tax Division and U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: Defendant is Latest in a Series of Defendants Charged with Failing to Report Income from Undeclared Accounts in Israel David Raminfard of Los Angeles pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California to conspiracy to defraud the United States, the Justice Department ...
By Commerce News Now | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: This report, based on data from the Census Bureau’s July 2011 Current Population Survey (“CPS”) Computer and Internet Use Supplement, updates and substantially expands on the previous study in this series, Exploring the Digital Nation: Computer and Internet Use at Home, issued in 2011. For the first ...
By Commerce News Now | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: Commercee Secretary Penny Pritzker and Secretary of State John Kerry Opinion Editorial, POLITICO "United States is open for business" Companies all over the world are choosing to invest in America. Don’t take our word for it. Just look at the latest headlines: Novelis, a subsidiary of an Indian company, ...
By Commerce News Now | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today issued a statement on the appointment of Barry Boniface to the FirstNet Board. FirstNet is an independent entity within the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), with members appointed by the Secretary of Commerce to serve three-year terms. To learn more about FirstNet, visit: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/category/firstnet.
