News from April 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: A man who transported two minor girls from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Iowa for purposes of having them engage in prostitution was sentenced today to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROGER KEY, a/k/a “Luchie," a violent and large-scale drug trafficker who operated in Manhattan and the Bronx, New York, was found guilty yesterday in Manhattan federal court of two murder-for-hire conspiracies, attempted murder, and narcotics and firearms offenses. KEY was convicted following a three-week jury trial before U.S. District Judge Sidney H. Stein.
By State Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing TODAY to examine how the education of women in countries prone to violent extremism can create economic opportunities and help counter the spread of radicalism. The hearing entitled, “Women’s Education: Promoting Development, Countering Radicalism " will begin at 10:00 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, April 3, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Ronald...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: A man who distributed child pornography was sentenced today to twenty years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Gary Eugene Teague, 45, of Newport, Tenn., was sentenced on Apr. 1, 2014, by the Honorable Leon Jordan, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 200 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute oxycodone. Upon his release from prison, Teague will be subject to supervised release under the supervision of the U.S. Probation Office for six years. There is no parole in the federal system.
By State Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: Washington D.C. - Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, inserted the following statement, as prepared for delivery, into the record today on full Committee hearing “Women’s Education: Promoting Development, Countering Radicalism.".
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 3, 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 markup on the Expiring Provisions Improvement Reform and Efficiency (EXPIRE) Act...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: During National Volunteer Week, April 6-12, the National Park Service Outer Banks Group celebrates the volunteers that work at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Wright Brothers National Memorial and Fort Raleigh National Historic Site. This past year, these volunteers donated a total of 18,982 hours!.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man who admitted possessing three stolen firearms was sentenced today, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced. Joshua Caudill, 28, of Charleston, West Virginia, previously pleaded guilty in February of 2013. Caudill admitted that he and Cody Fuller, 27, also of Charleston...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., April 3, 2014 -- Today the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced two amendments to the Export Apple Act (Act). The first amendment exempts apples shipped to Canada in bulk containers from USDA inspection and certification. The second amendment adds a definition for bulk container to the Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, April 3, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Viwathna Bhuthimethee, 69, a medical doctor who operated the Walk In Clinic, located on East Broadway Street in Alton, Illinois, was sentenced, today, in district court to twelve months...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that James Panos, 56, and wife Jennifer Panos, 48, of Broussard, La., entered guilty pleas before U.S. Magistrate Judge Patrick Hanna to one count of racketeering conspiracy at the now closed Desperado’s Cabaret in Carencro, La. This plea is conditional and does not become final until it is accepted by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Cole and Ranking Member Wasserman Schultz, for your hard work on this Subcommittee. While this may be the smallest of the appropriations bills, your leadership serves as an example to others of how the partisan-divide can be bridged and compromise can be reached. I look forward to continuing my work with you and the rest of this Subcommittee.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that following a three day jury trial, Lori Jenkins, age 47 of Omaha, was found guilty by a federal jury of two counts of being a felon in possession of ammunition. Each count is punishable by up to ten years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, followed...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: Some of today's popular baked goods might tomorrow contain a butter-like extract, derived from rice bran oil, as a partial replacement for margarine, butter or shortening. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) chemist Erica L. Bakota and her colleagues with USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Peoria, Ill., developed a process for making the extract, which somewhat resembles a nut butter.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., released the following statement on his vote in favor of the National Capitol Planning Commission’s resolution to disapprove portions of the proposed design for the Eisenhower Memorial. The resolution passed seven-three, with an amendment introduced by Chairman Issa.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Glenn Casey Portwood, 52, of Sugar Land, has been ordered held in custody pending trial on child pornography charges, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Lee’s Summit, Mo., man who is a registered sex offender was sentenced in federal court today for possessing child pornography. Thomas A. Shields, 45, of Lee’s Summit...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 3, 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 in response to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showing that poison control centers reported a major...
