News from September 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: Federal Cocaine Trafficking And Money Laundering Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that a grand jury in Scranton returned an indictment Tuesday charging James King, age 47, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, for possession of heroin with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Luis Gerardo Alvarado, 22, appeared in federal court yesterday afternoon, before U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson, and pleaded guilty to one count of enticement of a minor and aiding and abetting. While a sentencing date was not set, Alvarado, who is in custody, faces a maximum...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: ATLANTA - Michael Rothenberg, a former candidate for a seat on the DeKalb County Superior Court, pleaded guilty today to a charge of defrauding the owners of WinterHawk Energy and Development Corporation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - The Justice Department awarded Assistant U. S. Attorney Todd A. Brown the Attorney General’s Award for Fraud Prevention announced George L. Beck, Jr., United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama. This award recognizes exceptional dedication and effort to prevent, investigate, and prosecute fraud, white collar crimes, and official corruption.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: Vivek Shah threatened to kill family members of seven wealthy extortion targets.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: Defendant to Be Deported Following Incarceration.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: The Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), today held a hearing to examine the steps higher education institutions are taking to better support servicemembers and veterans who are working to earn a postsecondary degree or obtain valuable job training skills.
By State Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: Washington D.C. - Congressman Eliot Engel, the senior Democratic Member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement on Russia’s sale of the S-300 anti-aircraft system to Iran.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited T & R Produce Wholesale and Trucking Inc., in Sanford, Fla., for failure to pay for produce.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) is launching a new smartphone app - the first of its kind in U.S. federal law enforcement - designed to seek the public's help with fugitive and unknown suspect child predators. All tips can be reported anonymously through the app, by phone or online, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: GERARD J. HOFFMAN, JR., 59, a resident of Mandeville, Louisiana, was sentenced today to 5 years probation by U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo for conspiracy to commit bribery, announced U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente. In addition to the term of probation, Judge Milazzo ordered HOFFMAN to pay a fine of $25,000 and a $100 special assessment.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Committee leaders today introduced unprecedented bipartisan water resources reform legislation that cuts federal red tape and bureaucracy, streamlines the infrastructure project delivery process, promotes fiscal responsibility, and strengthens our water transportation networks to promote America’s competitiveness, prosperity, and economic growth.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 38-year-old Luzerne County resident was indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday on charges of receiving and distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: H. Jack Miller, 51, of Boca Raton, Florida, was charged by information, filed on September 5, 2013, with one count of willful failure to maintain an effective anti-money laundering program and one count of willful failure to file a suspicious activity report, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: Glen Jean, WV,Sept. 11, 2013-The tunnel trail at Grandview remains closed due to safety concerns for visitors. During the last two years, the National Park Service hired two engineering firms to independently conduct structural assessments of the tunnel. Both companies noted structural defects and questions about the safety of the support system in the tunnel.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO ― An Aurora man was sentenced today to nine months in federal prison for sexually groping the inner thigh of a Chicago area woman while they were seated next to each other aboard an airplane from Las Vegas to Chicago in June 2011. The defendant, SRINIVASA S. ERRAMILLI, who was convicted of abusive sexual contact by a federal jury last December, has two previous convictions for nearly identical crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Renea I. Windham, of Oklahoma City, pled guilty in federal court today to making a forged security and filing a false tax return in connection with her embezzlement of more than $140,000 from a metro electrical contracting business, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today continued its review of the nation’s satellite television law with a hearing focused on the role of innovation and regulation in the video marketplace. The subcommittee...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement today in response to the Department of Energy’s announcement that it has conditionally authorized Dominion’s Cove Point Terminal to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) to countries that do not have a Free Trade Agreement.
