News from April 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for First Degree Burglary, Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today approved a bill to restore transparency to the advertising of U.S. airline ticket prices and ensure that airfare advertisements are not forced to hide the costs of government from consumers. The Committee also passed a bill to clarify that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not have the authority to revoke a federal permit which has already been issued.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court, JAMES EDWARD TRAVIS was sentenced by Senior United States District Judge Malcolm C. Howard to 60 months of imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay $422,302.65 in restitution...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOVER NARANJO, the owner and president of Enviro & Demo Masters, Inc. (“Enviro"), and LUPERIO NARANJO, SR., a foreman for Enviro, were sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to six and four years in prison...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released a memo from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) responding to a request to identify the last time Congress successfully convicted an American citizen of contempt after that person asserted his or her Fifth Amendment right not to testify before Congress.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: The ʻOheʻo stream, located along the Pīpīwai Trail, remains closed due to high water and damaged stream monitoring equipment.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: TAMPA, FL. - Today, the Department of Energy joined RTI International and Tampa Electric Company (TECO) to celebrate the successful startup of a pilot project to demonstrate a warm gas cleanup carbon capture technology in a coal gasification unit at the Polk Power Plant Unit-1 in Tampa, Florida. The project, which is approximately $3 million under budget, included $168 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Joseph H. Hogsett, United States Attorney, and representatives from the Indiana State Police, the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office and the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD), announced today that federal charges have been filed and are being brought in furtherance of a long standing investigation named “Operation Family Ties" involving a drug trafficking operation in Indianapolis.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two companies that operate physical therapy clinics in Washington, D.C., Virginia, and Maryland, along with three individuals associated with the businesses, have agreed to pay the United States $2.78 million to settle allegations that the firms’ billings to Medicare and the TRICARE health care program violated the False Claims Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: EVANSVILLE- Joseph H. Hogsett, United States Attorney and Assistant Special Agent in Charge for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Arron Graves announced today that eight Evansville men have been charged with federal firearms violations by a federal grand jury. The indictment was ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Henry A. Fellela, Jr., 56, of Johnston, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence on Tuesday to charges that he fraudulently obtained the identity of a Smithfield resident and using that person’s identity and credit card to purchase more than $3,000 worth of goods. In addition...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: POCATELLO - Eldon K. McConnell, 49, of Blackfoot, Idaho, was sentenced today to sixteen months in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Bryan also ordered McConnell to serve three years of supervised release following his release from prison. McConnell pleaded guilty to the charge on Jan. 16, 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: Today I want to talk about how trade in the 21st century can create good middle-class jobs and expand what I call the winners’ circle in our country.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: This morning, 63-year-old El Paso commercial truck driver Rogelio Munoz Chavarria was sentenced to four months in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release and fined $2,000 for his role in an undocumented alien smuggling scheme announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent In Charge Dennis Ulrich.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: 26th Defendant to Plead Guilty in Connection with Scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Democrats today released the following join statement after Committee Republicans today voted to refer Lois Lerner to the Justice Department for possible criminal charges...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: Defendant allowed her residences to be used for drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A New York resident has been sentenced in federal court to five years probation, which includes 10 months of home detention with electronic monitoring, on his conviction of conspiracy and passing counterfeit currency, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: Today, Representative John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Representative Eliot L. Engel (D-N.Y.), ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, led an 82 member letter to President Barack Obama urging him to renew enforcement of the ban on imported ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
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