News from November 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On November 7, 2013, Justin Ray Smith, a 27 year-old resident of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge James Gritzner to 60 months in prison for maintaining a drug involved premises, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Chief Judge Gritzner also ordered Smith to serve a two-year term of supervised release following incarceration.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced funding for 424 projects across the nation that will help agricultural producers and rural small businesses reduce their energy consumption and costs, and use renewable energy technologies in their operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont announces that the owners of Primrose Garden Gift Shop and the building in which it is located at 26 Central Street Woodstock, Vermont have agreed to complete specific modifications to come into compliance with Title III of the Americans...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday yesterday sentenced Jon Leslie Williams (55, St. Petersburg) to 5 years and 11 months in federal prison for failure to register as a sex offender. Williams was also ordered to serve a 20-year term of supervised release upon completion of his prison sentence.
By State Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: Washington D.C. - Ranking Member Eliot Engel, the senior Democratic member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement regarding reports that negotiators may soon finalize the parameters of an interim agreement regarding Iran’s nuclear program.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: Obtained More Than $500,000 of Gift Cards from Grocery Stores in Five States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jose A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: Fee Free Day - November 9-11, 2013 at all.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Five defendants, all from Baltimore, pleaded guilty this week to their participation in a racketeering conspiracy in which drugs and other contraband were smuggled inside several correctional facilities for members of the Black Guerilla Family (BGF) gang. The following defendants pleaded guilty today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Alex Ernesto Calderon Velasquez, 27, of Reston, Va., was sentenced today to 192 months in prison for production of child pornography and failure to appear in court as required.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists teamed with university collaborators to validate the ability of a database of allergenic proteins to predict when an individual will react to two or more different types of nuts, a condition called "cross-reactivity.".
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif, today announced that the Committee has subpoenaed Treasury Secretary Jack Lew for documents and communications regarding the targeting of conservatives from non-IRS Treasury officials. The Committee previously subpoenaed Lew on August 2 for Internal Revenue Service (IRS) documents on the targeting.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On November 7, 2013, Randy Eugene Doss, a 51 year-old resident of Exira, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge James E. Gritzner to thirty months in prison for possessing a firearm after a felony conviction, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Chief Judge Gritzner also ordered Doss to serve two years of supervised release when he completes his imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James T. Hayes, Jr., the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (“ICE") Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI"), today announced the filing of a civil...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Western District of Louisiana. Friday, November 8, 2013. ALEXANDRIA, La. - U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Alexander Maciver, 24, of Ball, La., was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell to 70 months in prison and five years...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: SAN JUAN, PR - After a two-hour jury deliberation, yesterday evening, defendants Edwin Otero-Marquez, Isaias Mendoza-Ortega, Rafael Martínez-Trinidad, Edwin Otero-Díaz, Brian Pérez-Torres, Ángel Fernàndez-Orge and José A. De la Cruz-Vàzquez were found guilty for possession of a firearm in a School Zone...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA), along with a coalition of lawmakers, today welcomed the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) release of a proposed rule to ensure that generic manufacturers of prescription drugs can update their warning labels to provide better patient safety information to consumers.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: On Wednesday, November 13th at 10:00 a.m., the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), will hold a hearing entitled, “Keeping College Within Reach: Simplifying Federal Student Aid." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - James Murphy, 30, of Massachusetts, entered a guilty plea in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire for possessing crack cocaine with intent to distribute, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
