News from April 2014

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announce the unsealing of an indictment charging Bradley Bowman, of Lighthouse Point, with two counts of filing false claims to the IRS, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 287 and 2.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2014
News Release: On April 4, 2014, a complaint was unsealed charging Aaron James Jackson, 28 of Lincoln, harboring a fugitive. The complaint alleges that between March 20, 2014, and April 4, 2014, Aaron James Jackson was aware that a federal warrant had been issued for his brother, Jason Robert Jackson, for conspiracy...

By DOE Newswire | Apr 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of April 7, 2014. The committee will examine legislation aimed at improving predictability and transparency in DEA and FDA regulation, discuss ways to end abusive patent demand letters, review the implementation of the Tobacco Control Act, and vote on legislation to clear the backlog of LNG export applications at DOE.

By DOL Newswire | Apr 4, 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 on the March employment numbers.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - ANDREW MABERRY, O’Fallon, IL, who the FBI referred to as the I-55 Bandit, was sentenced to 60 months in prison on bank robbery charges, including the July 2, 2013, robbery of the Commerce Bank in Jefferson County, Missouri. He entered his guilty plea last December and was sentenced today in St. Louis by United States District Judge Catherine D. Perry.

By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), has announced a markup next week on H.R. 6, the Domestic Prosperity and Global Freedom Act. The subcommittee will convene for opening statements only on Tuesday, April 8, at 4 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building and will reconvene on Wednesday, April 9, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider the legislation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce the unsealing...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2014
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Thirteen arrests were made Wednesday as a part of a federal Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force case targeting the distribution of methamphetamine and heroin in Utah by alleged members of the La Raza gang and their associates.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2014
News Release: South Bend, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a criminal information has been filed in U.S. District Court in Scranton charging that an inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Canaan, Pennsylvania, with allegedly assaulting another inmate with a dangerous...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Parmelee, South Dakota, man convicted of Witness Tampering and supervised release revocation was sentenced on March 31, 2014, by U.S. Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that STEPHEN COLANGELO, Jr., was sentenced yesterday to 87 months in prison in connection with two separate schemes that defrauded investors out of more than $3.5 million. COLANGELO’s first scheme involved a hedge...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Braintree man was charged yesterday for selling narcotics from a pharmacy.

By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement on the House floor in support of extending emergency unemployment benefits, which would immediately benefit more than 2.8 million Americans...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on March 31, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Darnele Nelson, 32, of California, who was convicted of possession of 15 or more unauthorized access devices, was sentenced to 36 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution totaling $1,722.91 by U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that James Bruguier, a/k/a James Bruguier, Jr., age 28, of Lake Andes, South Dakota, was sentenced on March 31, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.

By DOL Newswire | Apr 4, 2014
News Release: On Tuesday, April 8 at 10:00 a.m., the House Education and the Workforce Committee, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), will mark up the Success and Opportunity through Quality Charter Schools Act (H.R. 10), and the Strengthening Education through Research Act (H.R. 4366). The markup will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.

By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., sent a letter to Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, D-Md., requesting any current or ongoing communications Ranking Member Cummings and his staff have had with Ms. Lerner’s attorney. The letter states...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2014
News Release: As part of National Park Week 2014, Fort Stanwix NM is hosting its first ever Rome Appreciation Day, Saturday, April 26th from 9 am to 5 pm. Whether or not this is your first time visiting the park or your fiftieth, there will be plenty of things to see and do, with special opportunities for those with the 13440, 13441, and 13442 ZIP codes.