News from April 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: RICHARD S. HARTUNIAN, United States Attorney, Northern District of New York announces that JAMES BUTCHER (58, of Little Falls, NY), an accountant engaged in the business of preparing tax returns, entered a guilty plea to the felony offense of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: ***MEDIA ADVISORY***. CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin will deliver remarks during the West Virginia Child Advocacy Network’s first statewide conference at the Lakeview Resort in Morgantown, W,Va. on Friday, April 4, 2014 at 9:00 a.m. The conference, attended by approximately...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - FLORENTINO VILLANUEVA, JR., 38, of Geronimo, Oklahoma, has been sentenced by United States District Judge Joe Heaton to serve 210 months in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Three separate indictments have been partially unsealed following the arrest of six Laredo residents on a variety of charges including methamphetamine and/or cocaine trafficking and felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: Rochelle Biesenthal, 64, of Brigantine, New Jersey, was charged today by information with one count of wire fraud and three counts of tax evasion in connection with an alleged scheme to defraud the Jewish Heritage Programs (“JHP"), a non-profit corporation based in Philadelphia, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee approved a wide variety of bills that address several issues, including the prevention of chemical spills, protecting safe drinking water, water resources and wildlife conservation and the cleanup of brownfield sites. The ...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: Dolores, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Tres Rios Field Office is planning to conduct a prescribed burn in the West Rim Pines fuels treatment project area, located five miles east of Egnar, Colo. beginning as early as next week, or as conditions allow. The objectives of this prescribed burn...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed the Save American Workers Act (H.R. 2575), legislation to restore the 40-hour work week under President Obama’s health care law...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: SAN JOSE - Fauzia Lodhi, formerly of Mountain View but now residing in Mission Viejo, Calif., was sentenced on April 2, 2014, to 16 months in custody for her conviction on mail fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Riehl.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement in response to the committee's bipartisan vote to approve S. 1961, the Chemical Safety and Drinking Water Protection Act. The legislation was introduced ...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a hearing with Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz to review the president’s proposed FY2015 budget for the Department of Energy. Members questioned Secretary Moniz over the department’s policy priorities and expressed concern over the agency’s failure to produce a national energy policy that reflects today’s energy realities.
By State Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - US Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement after President Obama signed Ukraine legislation into law.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: SAN JOSE - Fauzia Lodhi, formerly of Mountain View but now residing in Mission Viejo, Calif., was sentenced on April 2, 2014, to 16 months in custody for her conviction on mail fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Riehl.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a hearing with Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz to review the president’s proposed FY2015 budget for the Department of Energy. Members questioned Secretary Moniz over the department’s policy priorities and expressed concern over the agency’s failure to produce a national energy policy that reflects today’s energy realities.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS PROGRAM FOR SUMMER.
By State Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement regarding South Sudan.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: CLINTON, IN - Joseph H. Hogsett, the United States Attorney, announced today the federal sentencing of a Vermillion County man on federal firearms charges. Danny K. Hight, age 47, of Cayuga, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge William Lawrence to 70 months (5 years, 10 months) for illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., led the Finance Committee today to pass bipartisan legislation renewing a set of provisions known as “tax extenders" that have expired or will expire at the end of this year. The bill, entitled the Expiring Provisions Improvement Reform and Efficiency (EXPIRE) Act, was approved by bipartisan voice vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: Moved From Medical Marijuana Authorizations To Distribution Of Narcotic Painkillers.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - A multi-year investigation into the trafficking of untaxed cigarettes, including purchasing cigarettes and selling them with counterfeit tax stamps to avoid paying state cigarette taxes, in violation of the Contraband Cigarette Trafficking Act, has led to the conviction of 11 Texas residents, most of whom are from North Texas.
