News from April 2014
By DOE Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today released the following statement on the U.S. Coast Guard report on the investigation into 2012 grounding of Shell’s Kulluk mobile drilling unit at Alaska’s Sitkalidak Island:
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - A Glenpool woman pleaded guilty on Wednesday to forgery and tax charges, announced Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A St. Albans, W.Va. man pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Alva Osborne, 46, pleaded guilty in federal court in Charleston to distributing methamphetamine. As part of the plea, Osborne admitted that on four separate occasions from...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to an announcement from Chairman Darrell Issa that the Committee will vote next week to hold former IRS official Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: More Than $4.4 Billion To Be Available For Environmental Clean-Up And Claims.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: A man who caused a fire while attempting to manufacture methamphetamine in his Dubuque apartment was sentenced today to six and one‑half years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: Allegations of theft of unemployment insurance benefits and tax refunds.
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, today announced that EDDIE RODRIGUEZ, also known as “Joel," 30, of New London, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Trenton, N.J., man with a previous conviction for drug distribution was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for possessing three firearms, including a loaded semi-automatic rifle and a loaded revolver, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jose A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, Miami Field Office...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: DURANGO, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Law Enforcement officers have reported a number of trespasses as the days grow longer and warmer within the Grandview Ridge and Animas City Mountain closures. To protect critical wildlife habitat, these closures will remain in place no later than April 15, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Fidel Rodriguez, 54, and Yida Perez, 44, of Henrico County, Virginia, were sentenced today to 15 years' imprisonment in U.S. District Court on four counts of production of child pornography. The defendants were convicted of the charges in a bench trial in November.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - A new report, released today by Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee Peter DeFazio (D-OR), shows that deep budget cuts have hindered efforts by the U.S. Forest Service (Service) and the Department of Interior (DOI) to fight catastrophic wildfires. The report found...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) today announced that the Committee will convene for a business meeting on Thursday, April 10, 2014 at 9:00 AM in room 2154 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider a resolution holding Lois G.
By State Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Mark Meadows (NC-11), Rep. Brad Schneider (IL-10), House Foreign Affairs Chairman Ed Royce (CA-39) and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (NY-16) will introduce legislation that would toughen economic sanctions against Hezbollah, a terrorist organization that continues to pose a threat to the United States, our allies and interests throughout the Middle East, and well beyond.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today, a jury in federal court in Duluth found a 47-year-old Ponemah man guilty of strangling a woman while on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. Following a three-day trial, the jury convicted Terry Dean Iceman on one count of strangulation. Iceman was indicted on Nov. 13, 2013.
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, Cynthia Giles, Assistant Administrator for EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, and Commissioner Robert...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Kin Fu Chow, 47, of Chicago, Ill., has been ordered to prison for his involvement in a money laundering conspiracy involving alien smuggling activity, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Chow pleaded guilty to one count of money laundering on Jan. 2, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The owners of popular Ocean City, N.J., restaurant chain Manco & Manco Pizza were arrested this morning at their Somers Point, N.J., home by IRS-Criminal Investigation special agents on an indictment charging the couple with multiple counts of tax evasion and other offenses, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) yesterday wrote her fourth letter to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell since the rejection of a lifesaving road for the people of King Cove, Alaska. This new letter was in response to a suggestion from Jewell that the U.S. Coast Guard could establish a permanent air station on the Alaska Peninsula to satisfy the emergency medical access needs of King Cove.
