News from April 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday today sentenced Quinton Justin Davis (27, Sarasota) to 15 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Davis pleaded guilty on Jan. 21, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that RICHTER RINVIL, also known as “Ricky, 20, of Stamford, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 66 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for possessing two sawed-off shotguns and narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Tuesday, April 8, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced that Ray Allen Flener, 25, of Sesser, Illinois, pled guilty today to federal charges that...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester tax return preparer was charged yesterday with preparing false tax returns.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: There is just a week to go before the April 15 deadline for filing taxes, and millions of Americans are spending a good portion of the spring struggling to fill out tax forms and digging through piles of receipts in a painful annual ritual. The complexity of the tax code creates an environment where confusion and errors flourish. Congress isn’t blameless on this issue, and that’s one reason why it’s time to rewrite the code to make filing easier.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement today on the 150th anniversary of Gallaudet University.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area has been authorized to update the fee rate for the Bandy Creek Group Camps from $75.00 per night to $100.00 per night. This rate is for up to 25 persons. The fee for each additional person will remain at $3.00 per person per night. The new fee will become...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: Fairbanks, AK-The Bureau of Land Management has selected local artist Sarah DeGennaro as the first Artist-in-Residence for the White Mountains National Recreation Area. The BLM will be hosting DeGennaro April 14-18 at the Wickersham Creek Trail Shelter in the White Mountains.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 32-year-old former Lehighton resident was sentenced today to serve 188 months in prison for receiving and distributing child pornography by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., released a report recommending the House find former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress for her refusal to comply with a duly issued subpoena compelling her to testify on the IRS targeting scandal. The Committee will consider a resolution to hold Ms. Lerner in contempt at a full committee business meeting Thursday, April 10th at 9:00 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Steven Ray Hemenway, 47, of Payette, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 78 months in prison for possessing sexually explicit images of minors, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. United States District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Hemenway to serve 20 years...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: A DFW Lawyer Who Served as Escrow Officer in Scheme is Sentenced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An internal affairs officer of the Miami-Dade Police Department was arrested this morning in Miami Gardens, Fla., and charged with allegedly aiding a narcotics trafficking organization - distributing cocaine from the Dominican Republic in New Jersey and elsewhere - by orchestrating a murder-for-hire...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: SEATTLE - Today, a civil complaint was filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington against an Arizona physician who violated the Controlled Substances Act by prescribing narcotic painkillers in Washington state without having a DEA registration number in Washington. Barton...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) today released the Federal Firearm Licensee (FFL) Theft/Loss Report for calendar year 2013. The 2013 report includes a state-by-state breakdown and detailed accounting of the types of firearms reported lost or stolen by FFLs.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: MOBILE, Ala. - Tessa Weaver Rivers, 39, of Mt. Vernon, Alabama, was sentenced today in federal court to a year and a day in federal prison for her participation in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Court documents establish that Rivers was involved in both the manufacture...
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, today announced that ALPHONZO DIXON, also known as “Fonz," 26, of New Haven, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: The House Education and the Workforce Committee today approved two pieces of legislation that will improve the nation’s K-12 education system. The Success and Opportunity through Quality Charter Schools Act (H.R. 10) and the Strengthening Education through Research Act (H.R. 4366) both passed the committee with bipartisan support.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - April 6, 2014, marks the beginning of “National Crime Victim’s Rights Week," a time to honor crime victims, celebrate our nation’s progress in advancing their rights, and work toward future goals. This year the Northern District of Georgia celebrates the 30th Anniversary of the Victims of Crime Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: President Obama spent last week celebrating his health care law, but while he was cherry picking the latest “enrollment" figures in a speech in the Rose Garden, he failed to acknowledge the core measures that will determine this law’s success or failure. In forcing this law through Congress, President Obama and his allies in Congress promised...
