News from October 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Michael J. Barndt, a/k/a “mikecoach73," age 39, of Sellersville, Pennsylvania, pled guilty today to Attempted Coercion and Enticement of a Minor, in violation of federal law. Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced the guilty plea following...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: Washington - The government has intervened in a lawsuit filed under the False Claims Act against United States Investigations Services LLC (USIS) in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, the Department of Justice announced today. The lawsuit alleges that USIS, located in Falls Church, Va., failed to perform quality control reviews in connection with its background investigations for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - An inmate of FCI Loretto has been sentenced in federal court to 24 months in prison, to be served consecutive to the 140-month sentence he is currently serving, on his conviction of possession of contraband in prison, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013, Walter Thomas Meyer, age 69, a retired professor of physics and astronomy at Iowa State University, was sentenced for possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Mr. Meyer pled guilty to the charge of possession of child pornography on July 24, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA - Kayci Cook Collins, Superintendent of the Flagstaff National Monuments - Wupatki, Sunset Crater Volcano, and Walnut Canyon National Monument announces that visitor center hours will shift towinter hours starting Nov. 1, 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT), Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), and House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), released a discussion draft outline to permanently fix the broken Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: Region 5 News Release: 13-1976-CHI. Oct. 31, 2013. Contact: Scott Allen Rhonda Burke. Phone: 312-353-6976. Email: allen.scott@dol.gov burke.rhonda@dol.gov. GLENDALE HEIGHTS, Ill. - Northstar Metal Products has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration for...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration in New England, Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, New Britain Police Chief James Wardwell and Wethersfield Police Chief James Cetran today announced that 24...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: From Alaskan mountain peaks to the Argentinian pampas to the rocky shores of Newfoundland, Native Americans were the first to carve out cities, domesticate crops, and establish great civilizations. When the Framers gathered to write the United States Constitution, they drew inspiration from the Iroquois...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: U.S. Secret Service’s National Threat Assessment Center Provides Training to Law Enforcement, School Personnel and Campus Officials in Worcester.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. DAYTON - Thuron L. Hammersley, 44, of Fairborn, Ohio was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 78 months in federal prison for transporting an individual...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration in New England, New Britain Police Chief James Wardwell and Wethersfield Police Chief James Cetran today announced that 24 individuals have...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that James Steckley, age 44, of Kimball, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier on Oct. 29, 2013, and pled guilty to Count IV of the Indictment that charged him with a Lacey Act violation and an Information that charged him with Assaulting, Resisting and Impeding a Federal Officer.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: The Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) today announced new topics under its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Technology Transfer (STTR) program that will help small businesses develop innovative ideas and deliver market-driven solutions. EERE’s areas...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Tayvon Dobson, age 23, of Cambridge, Maryland, today to 28 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for attempted murder of a federal officer and using a gun during the attempted murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: OXFORD, Miss. Felicia C. Adams, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi, and Daniel McMullen, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi, announce that.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013, is New Jersey’s general election, and U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman is reminding voters to use the Election Day Hotline if they suspect voter fraud. The U.S. Attorney’s Office will receive and respond to reports of election irregularities, voter intimidation or any...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT), and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) released a discussion draft outline to permanently fix the broken Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: DENVER - A federal grand jury in Denver recently returned an indictment charging Clifton Brett Bennett, age 55, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, with one count of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault by Striking, Beating and Wounding and Simple Assault was sentenced on Oct. 30, 2013, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
