News from April 2014
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2014
News Release: LAKE MEAD CLOSURE LIFTED IN TIME FOR CLARK COUNTY FAIR.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2014
News Release: Women's Rights National Historical Park concludes its annual Winter Film Festival by showing the documentary film Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream Friday, April 25, and Saturday, April 26, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2014
News Release: OAKLAND, Calif. - An eight count indictment was unsealed in federal court this morning charging Dr. Toni Daniels with conspiracy to commit health care fraud, conspiracy to distribute and dispense controlled substances, distribution of controlled substances, and willful failure to file a tax return, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A federal grand jury in Providence has returned a three-count indictment charging Tyronne Seams, 28, of Woonsocket, R.I., and David Bunnell, 21, of Franklin, Mass. with allegedly participating in a conspiracy and Hobbs Act Robbery and with discharging firearms during a crime of violence ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Martin, South Dakota, woman convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter was sentenced on April 4, 2014, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - -A high-level member of the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico pleaded guilty a year ago to participating in a vast narcotics trafficking conspiracy and is cooperating with the United States, federal law enforcement officials announced. A written plea agreement with the defendant, Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla, was made public today in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A high-level member of the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico pleaded guilty a year ago to participating in a vast narcotics trafficking conspiracy and is cooperating with the United States, federal law enforcement officials announced today. A written plea agreement with the defendant, JESUS VICENTE ZAMBADA-NIEBLA, was made public today in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today delivered the following remarks at a committee hearing examining the President’s budget proposal for Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2014
News Release: OTSEGO, N.Y. - Acting Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. announce the arrest of John Thomas Laing, age 53, of 1608 Butternut Rd, Unadilla, NY. The announcement follows a joint two and a half month narcotics investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, April 10, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. On April 10, 2014, Stephen P. Salzwedel, a/k/a “Steak," 41, and Tony G. Carle, 27, both of Tilden, Illinois, were sentenced in United States District Court in Benton on a one-count indictment...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Democratic Members of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released their Minority Views in opposition to Chairman Darrell Issa’s resolution to hold former IRS employee Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress despite the fact that she exercised her rights under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 10, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Yesterday, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas traveled to California where he delivered remarks at the 8th annual IT Security Entrepreneurs’ Forum hosted by the Security Innovation Network to discuss the cyber threat landscape and the importance of innovation in the field.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2014
News Release: Following a comprehensive investigation, today the Justice Department announced its findings that the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) has engaged in a pattern or practice of excessive force that violates the Constitution and federal law. The department delivered a letter setting forth these findings to Albuquerque Mayor Richard J. Berry and Police Chief Gorden Eden this morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2014
News Release: Three individuals have been indicted for their alleged roles in an approximately $32 million fraud against a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) program designed to provide discounted telephone services to low-income customers.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2014
News Release: The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi permanently barred Tamara Brock from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. Brock agreed to the entry of a final judgment of permanent injunction, which was entered by the court on Apr. 10, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2014
News Release: The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today issued a policy statement on the sharing of cybersecurity information that makes clear that properly designed cyber threat information sharing is not likely to raise antitrust concerns and can help secure the nation’s networks of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2014
News Release: Acting Assistant Attorney General Jocelyn Samuels for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch for the Eastern District of New York announced today that the United States has filed a complaint against the Town of Oyster Bay in Long Island, N.Y., for violating ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2014
News Release: After a bench trial handled by the Department of Justice, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York has entered an injunction against New York City Fish Inc., Maxim Kutsyk, Pavel Roytkov and Leonid Staroseletesky under the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA). The court found ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2014
News Release: The Justice Department today announced it has reached an agreement with the Rhode Island Judiciary to ensure that limited English proficient (LEP) individuals will have access to timely and competent language assistance at no charge in all court proceedings, services and programs throughout the state court system.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON—U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder—who testified before the U.S. Sentencing Commission last month in support of a proposal to reduce the federal sentencing guidelines for low-level, nonviolent drug offenders—released the following statement Thursday in response to the Commission voting to formally ...
