News from April 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Justin Cody, and his wife, Aeshia Wilmore, have been sentenced for their roles in a fraudulent income tax refund scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: A Defendant Is Presumed Innocent Unless Convicted Through Due Process Of Law.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A woman was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison in a federal drug trafficking case from Salina, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 36 indictments charging 41 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: HONOLULU - Defendants Roger Cusick Christie, 64, and Sherryanne L. Christie, 62, husband and wife, were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Leslie E. Kobayashi. Roger Christie was sentenced to 60 months imprisonment, to be followed by a term of supervised release of four years. Sherryanne Christie was sentenced to a 27 month imprisonment term, to be followed by a term of supervised release of three years.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: According to new data from the Department of Labor, the long-term unemployment rate in 2013 was virtually the same across varying types of education level. More than a third of the approximately 10.5 million Americans who are currently unemployed have been out of work for more than six months.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The National Hydropower Association (NHA) today honored U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) with its Legislator of the Year award for her support of hydroelectric power.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the House passed H.R. 4194, the Government Reports Elimination Act by unanimous voice vote. The bipartisan legislation was introduced by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and co-sponsored by Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., and Rep. Rob Woodall, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: Huntington, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Gregory Lindsey Jr, 22, of Detroit, Michigan, entered a guilty plea today to possession with intent to distribute oxymorphone pills, commonly known as “Opana." Lindsey faces up to 20 years imprisonment when he is sentenced on August 4, 2014, by Chief United States District Court Judge Robert C. Chambers.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO ― Former Illinois State Rep. KEITH FARNHAM was charged today with possession of child pornography in a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago. Farnham allegedly possessed two videos depicting child pornography on a computer that was seized from his state office in Elgin in March.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), will have a hearing to conduct oversight of the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday, May 20, 2014. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler will be the sole witness.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: During The Sentencing Proceeding, The Court Found That The Government Had Proved By Clear And Convincing Evidence That Saracino Had Participated In The 1995 Murder Of Richard Greaves, A Colombo Family Associate, The 1997 Murder Of New York City Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. Marshals arrested a woman who has been a fugitive since she missed her sentencing date in October 2011, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and United States Marshal Albert Nàjera announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Distribution of a Controlled Substance.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: CRAIG, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management, Yampa Valley OHV Trailriders and Stay the Trail Colorado invite the public to come learn the motorized trails at the popular Sand Wash Basin in northwestern Colorado through an organized fun ride Saturday May 10.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), will have a hearing to conduct oversight of the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday, May 20, 2014. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler will be the sole witness.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: The Energy Department today announced $10 million to test prototypes designed to generate clean, renewable electricity from ocean waves and help diversify America’s energy portfolio. The Energy Department-supported demonstrations at the U.S. Navy’s wave energy test site off Hawaii’s island of Oahu will help develop reliable wave energy options and collect important performance and cost data for wave energy conversion (WEC) devices.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement in response to Gina McCarthy's speech at the National Academy of Sciences today, in which she defended the Agency's continued use of "secret science." McCarthy serves as the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -Miguel Sanchez-Mendoza (Sanchez), 46, of Mexico, was sentenced today to eight years in prison for conspiring to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Kirsten Wilkinson, 34, of Dumfries, Va., was sentenced today to three years in prison for stealing nearly $95,000 from a real estate company where she worked as a personal assistant, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr.
