News from August 2014
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), Chairman of Financial and Contracting Oversight Subcommittee, highlighted a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that shows federal agencies have fallen far short of Administration-set goals for completing performance reviews of work done by federal contractors.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: Tucson, AZ - Smoke from the Deer Head Fire will continue to be visible today over the Rincon Mountains. The lightning caused fire is being managed for natural resource benefits in the federally designated Wilderness area of the Rincon Mountain District of Saguaro National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Montravis Luke, age 30, of Albany, Georgia, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge W. Louis Sands to serve 12 years (144 months) in federal prison for conspiracy with the intent to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine. The sentence was pronounced on August 7, 2014, in Albany, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: NEW YORK - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Venizelos, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of (FBI), James J. Hunt, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Francisco man was sentenced to three months in federal prison, followed by six months of home confinement with electronic monitoring, for his involvement in insider trading by purchasing Marvel Entertainment, Inc. stock options immediately prior to its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company in August 2009.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that on August 6, 2014, a federal jury found Hector Magallon-Lopez, a 25-year-old resident of Toppenish Valley, Washington, and Cristobal Sanchez-Chavez, a 36-year-old resident of Union Gap, Washington, guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Members and associates of the Vagos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang have been indicted today for drug trafficking offenses in an ongoing FBI probe, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Aug. 6, Kevin Scott Thibault, 49, Maryville, Tenn., pleaded guilty to a grand jury indictment charging him with two counts of forgery of the signatures of a district court judge and an officer of the U.S. District Court.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) today released the following statement on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) admission that senior HHS executive Marilyn Tavenner destroyed emails first subpoenaed ten months ago by the Committee related to the flawed launch of HealthCare.gov. So far, HHS has failed to comply with the Committee’s subpoena.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Daniel L. Mills, also known as “Boone," 35, of Hamden, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 63 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Phillip Lacher, a resident of Beaver County, was convicted of conspiring to distribute a mixture of methamphetamine and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, sometimes referred to as “molly", United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement today regarding the WTO’s ruling on China’s export restrictions on rare earths...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Daniel Victor Smith, previously an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Marianna, Florida, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison on Wednesday, August 6, 2014, by United States District Judge Richard Smoak for aggravated assault with a dangerous weapon and aggravated assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - On August 6, 2014, a federal judge sentenced a Fort Payne man to 30 years imprisonment to be followed by 20 years of supervised release for three counts of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Special Agent in Charge Raymond Parmer, Jr. from Homeland Security Investigations.
By State Newswire | Aug 7, 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 situation in Iraq...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A former pediatrician was indicted today with charges relating to child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, August 7, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal grand jury sitting in New Haven returned an indictment today charging CHRISTOPHER BYAN COLEMAN...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: Southwestern Idaho features some unique and dramatic landscapes, including winding rivers, deep canyons and vast areas of sagebrush steppe habitat, all of which can provide inspiration to an artist with an eye for color, shape and shadow. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Idaho is seeking applicants...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a criminal Information was filed in U.S. District in Scranton yesterday charging a Monroe County resident with distributing crack cocaine during 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: In Washington, short-sighted policies proposed for political messaging purposes often eclipse substantive dialogue. That is exactly what we are seeing as congressional Democrats and the Obama administration play election-year politics with the growing challenge of corporate inversions.
