News from April 2014
By DOE 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: THUTCHINSON, KAN. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom will speak at the NAACP’s Law Day event on Thursday, May 1, at Hutchinson Community College.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: EL DORADO, KAN. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom will speak to the Butler County Bar Association on Friday, May 2, at Butler Community College.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) praised unanimous House passage of the bipartisan Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act) which was approved earlier this month in the Senate and...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: On Saturday, April 26, Park Rangers were notified that a 43-year old man, Jerry Robert Kimbler, of Springdale, South Carolina, and his 2 children, 10 year old son and 6 year old daughter, were lost after venturing down a trail in Congaree National Park near the Harry Hampton Visitor Center. Kimbler sent...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated today that Daniel Gay, 42, of Burlington, Vermont, was sentenced on April 28, 2014, in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont, to serve eighteen (18) months imprisonment following his guilty plea to one count of...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Licensed real estate agent Manuel Herrera, 34, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to commit wire fraud in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on April 28, 2014, Shane M. Walter, 40, Bismarck N.D., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on a charge of coercion & enticement of a minor. Walter pleaded guilty to the charge on Jan. 30, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: Money was being wired from bank accounts in Colombia to bank accounts in Colorado for purchase of marijuana grow facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Palm Beach, Fla., pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of filing false tax returns, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: TYLER, Texas - U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that an Anderson County man has been sentenced for the sexual exploitation of children in the Eastern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that a Federal Grand Jury returned an indictment last week against JEREMIE J. TATE, of Zachary, Louisiana, and ROXANNE R. MERRITT, of Greenwell Springs, Louisiana, on sex trafficking charges, including conspiring to use interstate facilities...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on April 28, 2014, Donald A. Hochhalter, 65, New Leipzig, N.D., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on a charge of Making or Causing to be Made False Statements or Representations in a matter involving Medicaid. Hochhalter pled guilty to the charge, a misdemeanor, on Jan. 16, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that.
By State Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the announcement of new sanctions against Russia...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) today hailed House passage the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act, a bill to increase the availability, accuracy, and usefulness on on-line information regarding Federal spending. That bill will require each government program to disclose...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Newton Square, Pennsylvania, man convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on April 23, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: HONOLULU - Ernesto Hernandez, 51, of Kapolei, was sentenced today to 180 months imprisonment for conspiring to distribute and possess, with intent to distribute, 50 grams or more of methamphetamine from April to May 2013 as well as possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House today passed H.R. 4192, to amend the 1910 Height of Buildings Act, as amended, on a recorded vote of 367-16. The legislation will allow the District of Columbia government to approve human occupancy of penthouses up to one-story tall above the top story of buildings in the city.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Four marijuana cultivators were sentenced today in four separate large-scale marijuana cultivation cases involving private lands in Stanislaus, Fresno, and Tulare Counties, according to U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner.
