News from April 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Tommie Lee Williams, 43, of Atlanta, Ga. was sentenced on Monday, March 30, 2014 to serve 184 months in prison for federal firearms violations, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Chief U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney also sentenced Williams to serve five years under court supervision following his prison term.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives approved the Children’s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act(CHGME), sending the bill to President...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement after President Obama delivered remarks on ObamaCare today...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO - This morning, the Caribbean Corridor Strike (CCSF) dismantled a drug trafficking organization responsible for the importation of multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine into Puerto Rico and the transportation of drug money between Puerto Rico-Culebra-St. Thomas announced United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis sentenced Dion Mitchell Doram, age 23, of Baltimore, Maryland today to 10 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for commercial robbery and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Kenneth Rush, 30, of Georgia, plead guilty today in federal court in Charleston to possession with intent to distribute cocaine base, also known as “crack," a Schedule II controlled substance. On Wednesday, May 23, 2012, Rush was found in...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Kevin Zimmerman, 24, of Cheektowaga, N.Y., who was convicted of being an armed career criminal in possession of a firearm, was sentenced to 180 months by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By State Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued this statement following House passage of H.R. 4152, which now will go to the President...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, April 8, 2014, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Examining the Implementation of the Tobacco Control Act." Witnesses to be announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Marco A. Hernandez sentenced Sergey Yefimovich Turzhanskiy, 26, to 30 months in federal prison for possession of an unregistered destructive device. Turshanskiy pleaded guilty to using the device, a Molotov cocktail, in a 2012 attack on a Portland Police Bureau (PPB) patrol car.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Beaver County has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of conspiracy, stealing firearms from the inventory of a Federally Licensed Firearms Dealer, and possession of stolen firearms, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: TULSA, OKLAHOMA - A Tulsa man pleaded guilty today to brandishing a gun during a robbery at an Indian gaming establishment, announced United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two men and a woman from Hudson County, N.J., were indicted today in connection with their roles in two bank robberies that took place last summer, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing with General Motors CEO Mary Barra and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Acting Administrator David Friedman to investigate the GM ignition switch recall and why it took over a decade to announce the recall after red flags and warning signs first surfaced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: A woman who collected over $78,000 from State Farm Insurance for losses stemming from the arson of a rental dwelling she owned in Fort Dodge, Iowa, pled guilty today in federal court in Sioux City.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, April 8, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Trolling for a Solution: Ending Abusive Patent Demand Letters." Witnesses to be announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, April 8, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Trolling for a Solution: Ending Abusive Patent Demand Letters." Witnesses to be announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: Anthony Biello II, 55, formerly of Ambler, Pennsylvania, was charged today by indictment with one count of violating the Clean Air Act, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the indictment, Biello failed to notify the City of Philadelphia’s Air Management Services division of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of the removal of asbestos-containing material from a former church located at 1133 Spring Garden Street in Philadelphia.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today continued the process of seeking public input as part of the review leading to an update of the Communications Act. In December, Upton and Walden...
