News from November 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - DWAYNE DENARD JOHNSON, Wesley Chapel, Florida, was sentenced to 36 months in prison for his role in a stolen identity tax fraud scheme lead by his wife, Tania Henderson, from their home in suburban Tampa. Johnson is the fifth person involved in the scheme charged and convicted in the Eastern District of Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: Osaka, Japan-based Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. Ltd. has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $120 million criminal fine for its role in two separate conspiracies to fix the prices of automotive components involving anti-vibration rubber and driveshaft parts installed in cars sold in the United States and elsewhere, the Department of Justice announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: BALTIMORE - A Maryland brothel ringleader was sentenced Tuesday on sex trafficking charges following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Annapolis Police Department and the Easton Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Bend, Oregon, man convicted of Conspiracy and Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Nov. 25, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of Dec. 2, 2013. The committee will convene three hearings, including comprehensive reviews of the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as well as an examination of how the president’s health care law affects Medicare Advantage beneficiaries.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today announced that the subcommittee has scheduled a hearing on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013, to receive testimony from the five sitting Federal Communications Commission commissioners.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Darren Monteiro, 26, of Providence, has been ordered detained in federal custody on drug and firearm charges following an investigation into Monteiro’s alleged drug trafficking activities by the Providence Police Department’s Narcotics and Organized Crime Bureau, with the assistance ...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of Dec. 2, 2013. The committee will convene three hearings, including comprehensive reviews of the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as well as an examination of how the president’s health care law affects Medicare Advantage beneficiaries.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation will host a public open house on December 17 to seek comments on alternatives it will use in a Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the proposed Interim Operations of Ririe Reservoir and Dam located on the Willow Creek drainage about 15 miles northeast of Idaho Falls, Idaho.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: The exhibit “Charles Dickens in Massachusetts: A Tale of Power and Transformation" was hosted in Lowell in 2012. The exhibit has since been recognized by the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) with their ‘Leadership in History’ award at their national conference.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today announced that the subcommittee has scheduled a hearing on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013, to receive testimony from the five sitting Federal Communications Commission commissioners.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced that SCOT ZARKIEWICZ, the co-founder, President, Chief Executive Officer, Treasurer...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Drew J. Breakspear, Commissioner, State of Florida’s Office of Financial Regulation, Bureau of Financial Investigations...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
Release: The Foreign Agricultural Service recognizes the U.S. agricultural exports grown, produced and harvested by American Indians across the country during Native American Heritage Month.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: Dear Chairman Camp: We write to request that in the days remaining this year you turn the Committee’s focus to the economy, as Americans continue to recover from the deep economic crisis. To that end, an urgent economic issue confronts us through the pending expiration of the federal Emergency Unemployment...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that PETER GROMACKI, a U.S. citizen, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to three months in prison for exporting high-grade carbon fiber to China. GROMACKI pled guilty in July 2013 before United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: Kenneth Lee, 53, of Nashville, Tenn., was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court to 12 months and a day in prison, followed by one year of supervised release, for honest services mail fraud, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: ATLANTA - Hakeem Omar has been sentenced on charges arising out of a scheme to bribe an immigration official.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today announced that the subcommittee has scheduled a hearing on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013, to receive testimony from the five sitting Federal Communications Commission commissioners.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Kirby Cleveland, 29, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Casamero Lake, N.M., was sentenced this morning to two years in federal prison for his assault conviction. He will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
