News from April 2014
By DOE Newswire | Apr 24, 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 issued the following statement responding to the Federal Communication Commission’s latest proposal regarding net neutrality...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, May 1, 2014, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Telehealth to Digital Medicine: How 21st Century Technology Can Benefit Patients." Witnesses to be announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich today sentenced Michael J. Charniak (50, Seminole) to 21 years and 10 months in federal prison for transporting and receiving child pornography over the Internet. Charniak was also ordered to serve a lifetime term of supervised release, following...
By State Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement regarding reports of a Hamas-Fatah unity agreement.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the statement below regarding the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) consent order requiring AllenCo Energy Inc. to improve safety at its oil and gas pumping facility in University Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On Apr. 24, 2014, Darien Houston, 43, of Chattanooga, Tenn., was sentenced as an armed career criminal to serve 15 years in prison, by U.S. District Court Judge Curtis L. Collier. Houston's criminal history includes 23 felony convictions which include second degree burglary, possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: Also Ordered to Forfeit More than $2 Million.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 24, 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 issued the following statement responding to the Federal Communication Commission’s latest proposal regarding net neutrality...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Jorge Avila Torrez, 25, of Zion, Illinois, was sentenced to death today by a federal jury for the premeditated murder on July 11, 2009 of Amanda Jean Snell, 20, in her room at Keith Hall, an enlisted barracks aboard Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Va.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: Charles G. Shomo Stole More Than $600,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. COLUMBUS, OHIO -- Mercedes Emelinda-Silie, 41, of Grove City, Ohio was sentenced to 36 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $4,415,492.58 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for her role in a conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that two men were arrested on Tuesday on gun and drug charges. Larry Garrow, 26, of Richford, Vermont, was arrested and charged with stealing firearms from a federally licensed firearms dealer in Hardwick, Vermont. Albert Torres-Morales...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES -- A former senior partner at the accounting firm KPMG LLP was sentenced today to 14 months in federal prison for his involvement in an insider trading scheme in which he provided confidential information about publicly traded clients to a man who paid him with cash bribes and luxury items.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: San Juan, PR - Superintendent Walter J. Chavez announces a fee change for San Juan National Historic Site. The fee change will go into effect on May 1, 2014. The site recently completed the required civic engagement process conducting several public meetings, issuing news releases and informing stakeholders...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: MARTHA HEBERT, age 64, a resident of Kenner, Louisiana, was sentenced today to two years’ probation and fined $10,000 by U.S. District Judge Eldon E. Fallon after having pleaded guilty in January to a one count felony bill of information charging her with misprision of a felony, announced the U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Liberty, Mo., husband and wife were sentenced in federal court today for a nearly $2.7 million embezzlement and check kiting scheme and for filing a false tax return.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: GUNNISON, Colo. - Today, the Bureau of Land Management opened roads and trails north of the power line within the Hartman Rocks Recreation Area for public travel. All roads and trails south of the power line will remain closed to motorized and mechanized travel for Gunnison Sage-grouse conservation until Thursday, May 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, April 24, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARK MISSINO, also known as “Mark Houston" and “Mark Serano," 46, formerly of Waterford, was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Maryland man was sentenced today to serve one year and a day in prison for defrauding thousands of homeowners in a $4 million nationwide home loan modification scheme.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: The U.S. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, chaired by U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA), will hold a field hearing in Altoona, PA next week to focus on the potential impacts of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposal to significantly broaden federal...
