News from April 2014
By USDA Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - The United States Attorney’s Office will hold a press conference to announce the takedown of a drug distribution operation that involves two federal judicial districts and is the result of the joint efforts of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Alabama Department of Corrections.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Ronald J. Verrochio, Inspector in Charge, U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), Brian P. Martens, Acting Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), and...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health Care and Entitlements Chairman James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Ranking Member Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) today released bipartisan recommendations to the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits process in a letter to Social Security Administration Acting Commissioner Carolyn W. Colvin based on the Committee’s ongoing investigation into abuses of the program.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today led a hearing to investigate the threat to taxpayers from incompetent or unethical tax return preparers and to identify potential solutions to protect consumers. The committee heard compelling testimony from IRS commissioner John Koskinen, National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson, the GAO, and credentialed tax return preparers and advocates from across the country.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: Big South Fork Botanist Marie Tackett will be leading a wildflower hike on Saturday, April 12, 2014. The hike begins at the Leatherwood Ford gazebo at 10:00 a.m. (ET). From there, Marie will lead folks along the Angel Falls Overlook Trail to the Fall Branch Bridge, a distance of 1.8 miles one way. Visitors will discover the wildflowers that are in bloom and be given a checklist that they can use to discover more species on their own as the season progresses.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Eric Sijohn Brown, 46, of Philadelphia, pleaded guilty today to 20 counts in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme involving KREW Settlement Services. Brown pleaded guilty to conspiracy, two counts of FHA loan fraud, 12 counts of loan fraud, and three counts of tax evasion. Between May...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Aaron Schulist, 28, Plainfield, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 30 months in federal prison, followed by a three-year term of supervised release, for unlawfully possessing three firearms as a convicted felon. Schulist pleaded guilty to this charge on Jan. 30, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: POCATELLO - Rigoberto Torres-Perez, 31, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to nine months in prison for unlawful possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Torres-Perez was indicted by a federal grand jury in Pocatello on June 25, 2013, and pleaded guilty on Jan. 15, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Nigerian national who formerly resided in Livingston, N.J., was arraigned today on a 31-count superseding indictment charging him with participating in an $3 million scheme to use stolen identities to generate fraudulent tax refunds, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Randy A. Powell, 34, of Downsville, La., was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Robert G. James to 15 years in prison and five years of supervised release for receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today the results of the April 2014 Federal Grand Jury.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has officially launched a new atomic clock, called NIST-F2, to serve as a new U.S. civilian time and frequency standard, along with the current NIST-F1 standard.
By State Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the below statement, as prepared for delivery, at the hearing: “National Security and Foreign Policy Priorities in the FY 2015 International Affairs Budget."
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: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Eric Ross, 24, of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 280 grams or more of cocaine base within the Perry Housing Projects before Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life and a $10,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Central California man who was hired to advise the Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians has become the third person to plead guilty to participating in a kickback scheme that defrauded the Coachella Valley tribe.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: Tristram J. Coffin, the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, stated that Derek Thomas, 46, of 77 Granite Creek Road, Colchester, Vermont, was sentenced on March 31, 2014 by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Christina Reiss to 15 years in prison for producing child pornography with a real Vermont child. The Court also sentenced Thomas to 8 years of supervised release after he completes his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: POCATELLO - Gary Wallace Hoffman, 50, of Rigby, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 90 days in prison followed by six months of home detention for unlawful possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Bryan also ordered Hoffman...
By State Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing TOMORROW to examine U.S. foreign assistance priorities and strategy. The hearing entitled, “U.S. Foreign Assistance in FY 2015: What Are the Priorities, How Effective? " will begin at 10 a.m.
