News from November 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), Ramon Bethencourt Jr., the Chief of the City of Middletown Police Department, and Joseph A. D’Amico...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Murdo, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on November 7, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: (San Antonio, TX) Nov. 18, 2013 - Students from McCollum, East Central, McArthur, and Johnson High Schools have participated in the inaugural educational program at the newly restored Spanish colonial farm at Mission San Juan which is part of San Antonio Missions National Historical Park. The program was funded through a 2013 America's Best Idea grant from the National Park Foundation, the official charity of America's national parks.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: POCATELLO - Clayton Amos Lossing, 53, of McDermitt, Nevada, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to the indictment charging him with one count of assaulting an officer, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Lossing was indicted by a federal grand jury in Pocatello on July 23, 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: Using a novel realization of a "phonon laser," scientists at PML and the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) have observed and learned to control a process called mode competition. This process occurs routinely in optical lasers, but has never before been seen in analogous optomechanical oscillator systems, which have come to be known as phonon lasers.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: Natchez, Miss - Paul Winfield, former mayor of Vicksburg, Mississippi, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 25 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for bribery in connection with a pre-event disaster contract for the city of Vicksburg, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen. Winfield was also ordered to pay a $5,000 fine and forfeit $7,000, the amount paid to him as a bribe.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: Gene Cornell Smith, 46, of Lumberton, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 42 months in prison for violating the Clean Air Act. Smith bought a warehouse, in the Logan section of Philadelphia, and got a quote for the cost of removing asbestos from the site. Instead of paying to remove or stabilize the asbestos-containing...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Brandon Gregory Wilder, age 21, of Kennewick, Washington, was sentenced after having previously pleaded guilty on July 23, 2013 to Distribution of Child Pornography. United States District Court Judge Edward F. Shea sentenced Wilder to a twelve year term of imprisonment, to be followed by a life term of court supervision after he is released from Federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Crystal Torres, 27, pleaded guilty this morning to an assault with a dangerous weapon charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 19, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings delivered the following statement on the House floor today in support of H.R. 1965, the Federal Lands Jobs and Energy Security Act.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: The 2013 White House Tribal Nations Conference, held Wednesday, November 13 at the Department of the Interior, was a turning point in the federal-tribal partnership to combat climate change and strengthen community resilience.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following media reports that the Obama administration is once again trying to find a way to exempt unions from ObamaCare’s numerous taxes and mandates, U.S. Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), John Thune (R-S.D.), Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and eight of their Republican colleagues today introduced the Union Tax Fairness Act (S. 1724), a bill to prevent union health care plans, known as Taft-Hartley plans, from being exempted from the ObamaCare reinsurance tax.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that DAVID MILLER, 41, of Rockville Centre, N.Y., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) made the following statement in response to the Administration’s release of Exchange enrollments for the month of October.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement after the release of the international tax reform draft by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: All 35 Charged Members And Associates Of The Gang Have Been Convicted.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Chamberlain, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida- U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday today sentenced David P. Lawrence (26, Bradenton) to 11 years and 8 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Previously, on November 6, 2013, co-defendant Mark Alan Finehout (37, Sarasota) was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Chairman Todd Rokita (R-IN) issued the following statement after the Department of Justice dropped its injunction against a private school choice program in Louisiana...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Cranberry Township woman has been sentenced in federal court to 15 months imprisonment, five years of supervised release and ordered to pay $632,613.75 in restitution on her conviction of bank fraud and mail fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
