News from April 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: We will see a good deal of wringing of hands and hear a healthy dose of gnashing of teeth from Republicans during this hearing today about how the ACA is unworkable.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - This morning Gregory Allen Bahe, 32, a member and resident of Laguna Pueblo, pled guilty to an indictment charging him with assaulting a federal officer. The guilty plea was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, DuWayne W. Honahni, Sr., Special Agent in Charge of District IV of BIA’s Office of Justice Services, and Acting Police Chief Brian Carr of the Pueblo of Laguna Tribal Police Department.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: The Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Jacksonville's National Park, will celebrate the 2014 National Park Week with a wonderful range of activities. Throughout the country, visitors can enjoy the beauty and wonder of 84 million acres of the world's most spectacular scenery, historic places, and cultural treasures without paying entrance fees.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, April 8, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANGEL ROSA, also known as “Booby" and “Little Booby, 21, of East Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Duane James, age 53, of Germantown, Maryland pleaded guilty today to five counts of robbery.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i - The National Park Service, in partnership with the National Park Foundation, will celebrate National Park Week April 19-27 with a free-admission weekend and special events nationwide.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: Grand Teton National Park road crews cut through the deep snowpack on the Teton Park Road between the Taggart Lake parking area and Signal Mountain Lodge-a distance of 15 miles- and completed this portion of the annual spring plowing on Friday, April 4. The Teton Park Road has now melted down to pavement...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: Guilty Plea Came During Fourth Day of Jury Trial.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: Today’s hearing purports to discuss the benefits of permanent tax policy. I think we all agree that permanent tax policy provides certainty for all taxpayers - individuals and businesses - and is preferable to frequent short-term extensions.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: The Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has sent its 2013 annual report to Congress. The committee focused its primary attention on NIST's role and programs in two key administration priorities-advanced manufacturing and cybersecurity.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: WEST BRANCH, IOWA- Dr. Richard Baker continues his series of lectures about geology in our national parks with a presentation on Yellowstone. Dr. Baker is a professor emeritus in the Geoscience Department at University of Iowa. He completed his doctorate research at Yellowstone National Park. He has...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that MISSION SETTLEMENT AGENCY (“MISSION") and its owner, MICHAEL LEVITIS, pled guilty in Manhattan federal court to fraud charges in connection with a multimillion-dollar scheme that victimized more than...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: STATEMENT OF. THE HONORABLE NICK J. RAHALL, II. FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP. H.R. 4156, THE TRANSPARENT AIRFARES ACT OF 2014. APRIL 9, 2014. Thank you, Chairman Shuster. This bill does a very important thing-it stops the government from playing a shell game with the taxes and fees it imposes on the flying public.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a federal jury found Osman Jalloh, 52, of Sierra Leone, guilty of two counts of preventing or hampering his deportation from the United States. United States District Judge Dee D. Drell presided over the trial.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing examining effective ways to protect taxpayers from incompetent and unethical tax preparers...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Joshua Ferguson, age 34, of Pasadena, Maryland pleaded guilty today to unlawfully providing notice of electronic surveillance.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Clyde Lacy Rattler, 56, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to an 8 ½-year prison term on two counts of bank robbery stemming from a pair of hold-ups committed in downtown Washington on the same day, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. -Daniel Hufstetler, 34, formerly of 36 High Street in Berlin, New Hampshire was sentenced to 15 years in prison for robbing the Guardian Angel Credit Union, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: Three people from Stark County were charged in federal court with conspiring to launder money and operate illegal gambling businesses in Canton, Ohio, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - Aaron Garcia, 21,of Grand Prairie, Texas, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey to 96 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in October 2013 to an Information charging one count of receipt of child pornography. Today’s announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
