News from April 2014
By Commerce News Now | Apr 30, 2014
The US Commerce Department published a three page rule on April 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today celebrated the opening of the first phase of the SunRail commuter rail line, which will significantly expand transit options and connect thousands of residents to jobs and other economic opportunities throughout ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Jeong Joon Moon, a/k/a Patrick Moon, age 46, of Germantown, Maryland, on charges arising from a scheme to defraud financial institutions who loaned money to small businesses. The indictment was returned on April 24, 2014, and unsealed today. Moon was arrested yesterday and his initial appearance is scheduled for 3:00 p.m. today in federal court in Baltimore.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Two men were sentenced to prison today for transporting minor girls from the northern California area to Las Vegas, Nev., in 2013 to work as prostitutes, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By State Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously passed bipartisan reform legislation to improve the missions, objectives, and effectiveness of U.S. international broadcasters, such as the Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), Radio Free Asia (RFA),...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: In Waco, 30-year-old Christopher Andrew and 32-year-old Cornelius Tywarren Wilson were sentenced to 35 years and 30 years in federal prison, respectively, for their roles in a cocaine distribution operation based in Killeen, Texas, announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher H. Combs, San Antonio Division and Killeen Police Chief Dennis M. Baldwin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Abel Michael Quiroz, 26, a U.S. Border Patrol Agent who resides in Las Cruces, N.M., was arrested yesterday on federal child pornography offenses. Quiroz made his initial appearance in federal court in Las Cruces this morning. He remains in custody pending a detention hearing which has yet to be scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Amberula Levitt, who owned Tax Time Tax Service, a tax preparation business with multiple locations throughout metro Atlanta, has been sentenced to serve one year and nine months in federal prison for committing tax fraud on her own personal tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Albrecht Muth, 49, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 50 years in prison for first-degree murder in the slaying of his wife, 91-year-old Viola Drath, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: Thank you Mr. Speaker. I would like to also thank the subcommittee chairman and ranking member for their work on this bill.
By State Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today made the following remarks regarding H.R. 4490, the United States International Communications Reform Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced yesterday that Senior United States District Court Judge Richard P. Conaboy sentenced Daviandra Gwendolyn Green, age 28, formerly of Port Jervis, New York, to 90 months’ imprisonment for her participation in the robberies of six convenience stores between April and October 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, David W. Bourne, Special Agent in Charge, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Office of Criminal Investigations, Miami Field...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Senior United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii sentenced former Clovis Unified School District teacher Neng Yang, 46, of Clovis, today to 38 years in prison for sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. On March 24, 2014, Yang pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Eddie Allen Jackson, 31, of Grand Rapids, was convicted yesterday in federal court on three counts of child sex trafficking. From July to August 2012, Jackson recruited teenage girls in Muskegon to work for him as child prostitutes. He drove them back and forth to Grand Rapids...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.B U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jesse Adams, 27, of Rapid City, South Dakota, who was convicted of distribution of child pornography, was sentenced to 144 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: This Administration has been serious about combating fraud, waste, and abuse. Through the joint efforts of Attorney General Holder and Secretary Sebelius with the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (“HEAT"), there have been measurable results. The team has recovered in excess of $4 billion every single year since 2011. This is real money.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - An Olathe man pleaded guilty Wednesday to computer fraud, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - More than 50 volunteers worked over the weekend with the Bureau of Land Management in McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area to improve user experience with an improved trail system.
