News from November 2013
By DOT News Wire | Nov 13, 2013
The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on Nov. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 27-year-old Tamaulipas, Mexico man has been sentenced to federal prison for credit card fraud related charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Kansas City, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for distributing child pornography over the Internet. Joseph Frank Sliepka IV, 31, of Kansas City...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho - -Vanessa Louise Wagner, 30, of Plummer, Idaho, was sentenced today to 90 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Wagner to forfeit $5,600. She pleaded guilty to the charge on July 22, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: LEXINGTON, KY - A former Paintsville, KY., physician has agreed to pay the U.S. Government $200,000 to settle civil allegations that he improperly billed federal health care programs and failed to maintain documentation required to support reimbursement payments.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: Terrell A. Rey, 28, of Washington Park, Illinois, was sentenced in federal district court on November 8, 2013, to 30 months in prison, to be followed by three years supervised release, a $100 special assessment, and a $250 fine, for unlawful possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury in Buffalo has returned a four-count indictment charging Georgia Bowen, a/k/a Georgia Bennett, 38, of Lackawanna, N.Y., with health care fraud and aggravated identity theft. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Kansas City, Kan., woman has been indicted on charges of producing and selling counterfeit identity documents, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. CINCINNATI - L. Gino Boggia, 63, of Quebec, Canada was sentenced to 60 months in prison for engaging in a scheme to defraud a local bank in connection with...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee and Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) introduced the Hearing Aid Assistance Tax Credit Act. The legislation provides a non-refundable $500 tax credit for the purchase of a hearing aid, or $1,000 if two are needed, once every five years.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: GEORGE POTTER, 27, of Gulf Breeze, Florida, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Martin L.C. Feldman to crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Jose A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announce that a federal jury convicted Rigoberto Cabrera, 37, of Miami-Dade County, on charges relating to his participation in a tax preparation fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA- On Nov. 12, 2013, Gregory Allen Jennings, a 42 year-old resident of Atlantic, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge John Jarvey to 46 months in prison for possessing a stolen firearm, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Judge Jarvey also ordered Jennings to serve three years of supervised release when he completes his imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Perfinna King, 34, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Ojo Amarillo, N.M., pleaded guilty to using a firearm during a crime of violence. Under the terms of her plea agreement, King will be sentenced to six years in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, the Government Accountability Office released its much anticipated report on the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques (SPOT) program. The report entitled "Aviation Security: TSA Should Limit Future Funding for Behavior Detection Activities" (GAO-14-159) found, again, that the available evidence and data show that this program cannot be proven effective.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: Defendants Promised To Invest Money In Lucrative Real Estate And Business Deals But Diverted Money To Personal Accounts.
By State Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: Washington D.C. - Ranking Member Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democratic member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, gave the following remarks, as prepared for delivery, at a Council of Americas event on the upcoming Central America election.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former inmate of the Fayette State Correctional Institution in LaBelle, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 84 months in jail on his conviction of mailing a threatening communication, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: Celebrating 25 years as a national park: 1988-2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-Wisc.), Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Chairman Howard Coble (R-N.C.), and Congressman ...
