News from August 2014
By State Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ), House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA), and Senate Foreign Relations Africa Subcommittee Chairman Chris Coons (D-DE) met with President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan in the U.S. Capitol.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Thirteen Members of Congress today called on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to take immediate action to protect young people from predatory e-cigarette marketing and distribution tactics that are straight out of big tobacco’s playbook. According to the journal Pediatrics, the number of children aged 12 to17 years exposed to e-cigarette marketing increased by 256 percent between 2011 and 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - The U.S. Attorney’s Office will join law enforcement and community leaders on Tuesday, August 5th at the following two events as part of the 31st Annual National Night Out crime and drug prevention event. Admission is free.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Christopher Chasse, formerly of Foxboro, was convicted today in federal court of mortgage fraud in connection with the purchases of residential properties.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: A federal jury in Omaha, Nebraska, found Donna Marie Kozak guilty on Friday of conspiracy to file and filing false liens against two U.S. District Court judges, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Nebraska, two Assistant U.S. Attorneys and an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) special agent, the Justice Department announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: COLUMBIA, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney William N. Nettles, stated today that two Aiken men, Jesse James Quarles, 33, and Kenneth Islar, 27, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in separate indictments, charging each with felon in possession of a firearm, a violation of Title 18, United ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Richard Dwyer, 28, of Barker, N.Y., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import alpha-PVP, a synthetic narcotic, before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a fine of $1,000,000 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Senior United States District Anthony W. Ishii sentenced Brett Lee Scott, 26, of Buttonwillow, to one year and nine months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for aiming a laser pointer at a law enforcement aircraft, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. Yellowstone National Park. P.O. Box 168. Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190. August 4, 2014 14-053. Al Nash (307) 344-2015. YELL_Public_Affairs@nps.gov. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK NEWS RELEASE. Yellowstone National Park Receives 2014 America’s Best...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that Brian Bailey entered a guilty plea before the Honorable Richard G. Andrews to conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, as charged in a previously-filed Indictment and...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two members of a heroin distribution ring operating in Washington County, Ohio and Wood County, West Virginia pleaded guilty today to federal drug charges, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Cordaro “Chops" Johnson, 22, and Zinia Wakefield, 27, pleaded guilty to distribution of...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Ricky Williams, 23, of Charleston, West Virginia plead guilty today in federal court in Charleston, to distribution of heroin. During his guilty plea, Williams admitted that in September of 2013, he sold heroin in Charleston to an...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: SAN JOSE - Brian Andrew Dunning was sentenced today to serve fifteen months in prison for receiving between $200,000 and $400,000 in fraudulent commissions from eBay, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: New York City Human Resources Administration Accepts Responsibility for Causing.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE -Raymundo Silva, 35, of Belen, N.M., was sentenced on Friday to 30 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for his conviction on bank fraud and conspiracy charges.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada - Three roads are closed within Lake Mead National Recreation Area due to recent flash floods, and more storms are expected Monday afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court, before United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle, HOMER LEWIS BLACKBURN, 27, of Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, was sentenced to 18 months of imprisonment and 3 years supervised release and was ordered to pay $288,390.80 in restitution. On May 2, 2014 BLACKBURN entered a guilty plea to making false distress calls to the United States Coast Guard.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina -----United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that RICHARD A. WILLIAMS, age 42, of Columbia, South Carolina was sentenced today in federal court to 180 months (15 years) imprisonment, to be followed by five (5) years of supervised release. WILLIAMS plead guilty this past...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Aug. 4, 2014, Virgen Mendoza Perez, 36, a citizen of Mexico, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, to illegal reentry into the United States after being deported. Sentencing has been set for Nov. 17, 2014, in U.S. District Court in Greeneville.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today opened a competition to award new cooperative funding agreements for its Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) centers in 10 states. The competition is the first in a multiyear effort to update the funding structure to better...
