News from August 2013
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement regarding news that President Obama issued an Executive Order on Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security this morning outlining a national effort to identify chemical facilities, which pose a safety and security risk to citizens, communities, and national security...
By State Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), passed by voice vote, a fiscally responsible State Department authorization bill to improve security at U.S. embassies and diplomatic facilities around the world, H.R. 2848, the “Department of State Operations and Embassy Security Authorization Act for FY 2014".
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Three men, all residents of California, who admitted their involvement in a conspiracy to steal interstate shipments of meat from Tyson Fresh Meat Packaging Plant in Amarillo, Texas, were sentenced this afternoon by U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson. Today’s announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: On Thursday, August 8, on AHA! (Art, History, Architecture) night, you’ll have the chance to twirl your girl and honor your beau. In fact, you could even dance in the streets of downtown New Bedford with Ruth and Abby, the national park’s 1850s ladies! Join them from 6:00-7:00 PM on the lawn of the Seamen’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: OAKLAND - Royland Rice was sentenced yesterday to 15 ½ years in prison for bank robbery, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released today by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont), Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-Mich.) and House Energy and Commerce...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), announced today that defendant RUDY GUMATAOTAO PALOMO was sentenced by Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood in the United States District Court, to forty six (46) months imprisonment...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Kyle M. Lutrus, 28, of Brookfield, was sentenced today by United States District Judge...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON-On a vote of 239-176, the House of Representatives today adopted H.R. 2879, the Stop Government Abuse Act. H.R. 2879 incorporates three separate bills approved by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Raleigh County man who admitted to having an addiction to the powerful prescription painkiller oxycodone was sentenced today to one year and nine months in federal prison for illegal possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Booth Goodwin. James David Morris, 34, of...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Joel Rodriguez, 37, a Cuban refugee who resides of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon to ten years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his Hobbs Act robbery conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Edgar Leonel Estrada Morales, 58, of Guatemala City, Guatemala, was sentenced today to 168 months in prison for conspiring to distribute pseudoephedrine for unlawful importation into the United States and to aid and abet the manufacture of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SEAN DORAN, 21, of East Hampton, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to three years of probation for placing a fake bomb device at the front doors of East Hampton Middle School on Jan. 12, 2013. DORAN also was ordered to perform 150 hours of community service and pay a $1,500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Yesterday in federal court, a 40-year-old Bloomington man was sentenced for his role in defrauding financial institutions and homeowners under the guise of a program to rescue homes from foreclosure. On July 31, 2013, United States District Court Judge John R. Tunheim sentenced Richard Scott...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss - Dennis Earl Smith, Jr., 33, or Prentiss, was arrested today pursuant to an indictment charging him with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Phillip Durham, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Kimberly K. Mertz, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the FBI, and Phil Hall, Acting Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, announced that WILLIAM LECKEY, 47, of Madison, waived...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in (SAC), Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley III, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced today that Robert (44, Sarasota) pleaded guilty to a one count information charging him with conspiring with others to distribute oxycodone. Benefield faces a maximum penalty of thirty years in federal prison because of his prior felony drug convictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge John Antoon, II sentenced Christopher Castillo (28, Melbourne) today to 15 months in federal prison for threatening to kill the President of the United States. Castillo was convicted by a federal jury on February 5, 2013.
By State Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the below remarks as prepared for delivery at today’s full committee markup of H.R. 2848 & H.R. 419.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - During remarks at the Energy Department’s Biomass 2013 annual conference, Secretary Moniz today highlighted the important role biofuels play in the Administration’s to increase our energy security and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector. Secretary Moniz also announced over $22 million in new investments to help develop cost-competitive algae fuels and streamline the biomass feedstock supply chain for advanced biofuels.
