News from April 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) today announced that Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Deputy Director Brian Deese will testify Tuesday at the full committee hearing titled, “The President’s Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Proposal for the Postal...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today the filing of a criminal information against Amy Rogen, age 39, of Wilkes-Barre, charging her with conspiring to distribute cocaine base (crack), cocaine hydrochloride, and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - n commemoration of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (April 6-12, 2014), U.S. Attorney George L. Beck, Jr. will hold a press conference/reception to recognize organizations that have demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to supporting victims and providing victim services. The following organizations will be recognized.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Eric D. Smith, 43, of Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to a prison term of 6 ½ years on charges stemming from the stabbings of two people in separate robberies on back-to-back nights last December, one occurring outside of Gallery Place, and the other in Northeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Marvin Jefferson, 25, of Washington, D.C., was found guilty by a jury today of aggravated assault while armed, armed robbery, and related firearms offenses for attacking a man in Northeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: NORWOOD, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Uncompahgre Field Office is seeking public comments on the preliminary Norwood-Burn Canyon Comprehensive Travel Management Plan Environmental Assessment. The preliminary EA analyzes four alternatives for an inter-connecting trail system on about 9,850 acres of public land managed by the BLM about three miles west of Norwood, Colo.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, pressed Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew for more information about the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s (FSOC) interaction with other financial agencies, after concerns were raised about the group’s usage of the Office of Financial Research (OFR).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: PHOENIX - On April 2, 2014, Nicholas Pascal Zizzo, 27, of Phoenix was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell to 54 months imprisonment and ordered to forfeit approximately $1.3 million dollars and a business located at 1540 West Hatcher Road, Phoenix, after Zizzo pled guilty to conspiracy to manufacture and distribute controlled substance analogues.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn.- Darrel Von Scrogum, 50, of Greeneville, Tenn., was sentenced on Apr. 7, 2014, by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge, to serve 262 months in prison. Scrogum pleaded guilty to a July 2013 federal superseding indictment charging him with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: NEW YORK - Most people would rather be shot than give a speech to an audience full of strangers. Theodore Roosevelt managed to do both in a single day.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: During National Volunteer Week, April 6-12, the National Park Service commends Volunteer Kathy Wisiackas, who assists with receiving visitors to Fort Raleigh National Historic Site. Kathy recently began volunteering at the park's visitor center, working 8-10 hours per week. She welcomes visitors as they...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today applauded passage of legislation by the House of Representatives securing protection of a privately owned subsistence cabin on an Alaska Native veteran allotment within the Yukon-Delta National Wildlife Refuge from demolition by federal land managers.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: Defendant has prior conviction for first degree robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: MOBILE, Ala. - Miles Courtney Alexander, 31, of Grand Bay, Alabama, was sentenced today in federal court to 96 months in federal prison for his role in a methamphetamine manufacturing conspiracy. Alexander was arrested in September of 2012 as the result of a DHR welfare investigation at a residence on...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Keith Lawrence McMurray, 32, of Portland, Oregon, was sentenced to 204 months in prison today by United States District Judge Marco A. Hernandez for sex trafficking a 17-year old Beaverton girl. On September 4, 2013, McMurray pleaded guilty to one count of sex trafficking a minor. Upon...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today released the following statement on Rio Tinto’s decision to divest its 19-percent shareholder interest in Northern Dynasty Minerals and the Pebble gold, copper, and molybdenum prospect in Southwest Alaska:
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Jose Rafael Murcia-Garcia, 34, a Mexican National who resided in Boston, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty today to Conspiracy to Engage in Racketeering and Conspiracy to Launder Money. Murcia-Garcia faces a maximum of 40 years’ imprisonment, a fine of $750,000, and three years of supervised release. Further, he is illegally within the United States and faces deportation following the service of his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, April 7, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Bruce M. Foucart, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in New England, today announced that...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced that Burtch Seed Company, Celina, Ohio, has paid $175 to settle an alleged violation of the Federal Seed Act.
