News from September 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) today released the following statement regarding the decision of U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson to deny the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss the House of Representatives’ lawsuit concerning administration documents related to the Operation Fast and Furious scandal.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - A California woman was sentenced today to three years in federal prison for illegally transporting hundreds of container loads of Chinese-origin honey through the Chicago area after it entered the country illegally. The defendant, HUNG YI LIN, also known as “Katy Lin," 42, of Temple City, Calif....
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that SABIRHAN HASANOFF was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 18 years in prison for providing and attempting to provide material support to al Qaeda associates in Yemen and elsewhere, and for conspiring...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: CARLSBAD, New Mexico - Carlsbad Caverns National Park welcomes the public to Star Parties on October 5 and 6 in the east main parking lot of the Carlsbad Caverns visitor center.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that Joseph L. Robinson, 30, of Fairview Heights, IL, was sentenced in United States District Court in East St. Louis on Monday, Sept. 30, 2013, to 20 years (240 months) in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney(s Office announced that during a federal court session in Helena, on Sept. 30, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, WENDELL LESTER WOLF BLACK, SR., a 46-year-old resident of Crow Agency and an enrolled member of the Crow Tribe, pled guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon and assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Sentencing has been set for January 6, 2014. He is currently detained.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Aaron M. Richardson (24, Jacksonville) with a number of federal offenses, including the attempted murder of United States District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan. In addition to the...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today unveiled a discussion draft of the Strengthening and Finding Families for Children Act (SAFF-Children Act), legislation that would help more children find safe homes with adoptive parents or legal guardians. The bill would extend the lives of two key programs through 2016 - the Adoption Incentive Payments program and the Family Connection Grants programs - and it would make several improvements that would...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - William Robert Hupman Jr., of Mebane, N.C., was sentenced to serve 17 months in prison followed by one year of supervised release for tax fraud today, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Hupman was also ordered to pay restitution to the IRS of $103,420.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a Pinson man and member of an anti-government Sovereign Citizens group for mailing a fictitious financial instrument to pay off his home mortgage, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders last week followed up on a previous committee staff request for briefings on the administration’s efforts and coordination regarding the use of cost estimates for the social cost of carbon (SCC) from agencies participating in an “Interagency Working...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative action under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against Osteen Marketing LLC.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) at Valley Forge National Historical Park announces the release of two separate Requests for Proposals for commercial leasing opportunities of historic buildings.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: Justin J. Harper, 24, of Venice, Illinois, was sentenced in federal district court on Sept. 30, 2013, to 100 months in prison, to be followed by three years supervised release, a $100 special assessment, and a $400 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 EPA Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders last week followed up on a previous committee staff request for briefings on the administration’s efforts and coordination regarding the use of cost estimates for the social cost of carbon (SCC) from agencies participating in an “Interagency Working...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 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 Eric I. Bustillo, Regional Director, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), announce the filing of an indictment...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders last week followed up on a previous committee staff request for briefings on the administration’s efforts and coordination regarding the use of cost estimates for the social cost of carbon (SCC) from agencies participating in an “Interagency Working...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Mercer County, N.J., man was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute oxycodone pain pills, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced Friday that the Honorable Richard G. Kopf, U.S. District Court Judge, sentenced Carlos Navarro, 21, to 46 months imprisonment, and Erik Martinez, 22, to 57 months imprisonment, each to be followed by 3 years of supervised release. They were both also ordered to pay a $100 special assessment, following their conviction for distribution of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Jemery Hodges, 27, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge David Bramlette III to serve 23 years and 2 months in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for human trafficking of a minor child and the production of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Raymond R. Parmer, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of ICE Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
