News from September 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Wakpala, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Second Degree Murder and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Eastern District of Washington. Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. Funds Will Hire School Resource Officers and Critical Law Enforcement Positions. Spokane - United Sates Attorney Michael C. Ormsby, in conjunction with the United States Department of Justice Office...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement following the arraignment and plea agreement hearing of John C. Beale, former senior official within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - The manager of a restaurant in Ottawa, Kan., has been charged with harboring undocumented workers, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: On Sept. 24, 2013, Crystal D. Kellems, 38, of Dupo, Ill., was sentenced in United States District Court in Benton on a one-count superseding indictment charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, announced Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois.
By State Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, made the following statement on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on the physical evidence behind climate change.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter to Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, Acting Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and Doug Gregory, Executive Director of the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, regarding the proliferation of lionfish in the Gulf of Mexico and the adverse impacts on the surrounding ecosystems and marine habitats.
By State Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Washington D.C. - Ranking Member Eliot Engel, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and senior Member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, released the following statement on the recently released U.N. report stating that climate change was man-made.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of Sept. 30, 2013. The Communications and Technology Subcommittee will continue its spectrum oversight and the Energy and Power Subcommittee will hold a hearing on bipartisan legislation...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Sept. 26, 2013, Sherri Goree, 36, of East St. Louis, IL, pled guilty to a one-count indictment charging that she engaged in a scheme to commit health care fraud. At her sentencing, Goree will...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Two Miami-area residents were indicted in connection with their alleged participation in a $190 million Medicare fraud scheme.
By State Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - James Arthur Abney, 53, of San Angelo, Texas, was sentenced this morning, by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings, to 46 months in federal prison and 10 years of supervised release, following his guilty plea in June 2013 to one count of possession of child pornography. Today’s announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney(s Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on Sept. 27, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah C. Lynch, the following individuals were arraigned.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), today announced funding awards for the District of Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO/OAKLAND - The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) awarded a $500,000 grant to the Northern District of California to support the Oakland Police Department under the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) program, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Jackson, Miss - U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), announced a funding award granted today to the Moss Point Police Department for the hiring of two additional officers. The estimated value of the award is $157,316.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Palmview resident Erick Lee Chiu, 22, has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of robbing the International Bank of Commerce in McAllen, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Chiu entered a plea of guilty March 5, 2013.
By State Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that on Thursday, Oct. 3, he will convene a hearing to examine the growing threat of al-Shabaab, the Somalia-based and al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist organization.
